[BBray_T1296]

Originally Posted by tragic

Sorry for the late response the internet has been a little bit unreliable. Anyways seeing how the FPGA is locked I will have to talk to my team about tasksa's solution and other solutions(the Arduino is another great idea but unfortunately I don't think we have the time to acquire one but I could be wrong) because we need some way of running our pneumatic valves and also expanding our few controller inputs into multiple outputs. So thanks to all of you for clarifying this topic.

On running stuff with an arduino and radio control. I am soon to be working on a project involving an aircraft R/C unit interfacing with an arduino, in order to do some cool things with the boat I am building. While the control system is coming together much slower than the mechanics, our solution to powering our CIM-powered "propeller" (term used lightly) is to use a relay board that interfaces with the Arduino. It takes any voltage supply (my dad controls a 120VAC pool pump this way) at considerable currents and just works exactly as you would want it. Just give it a 12/24VDC supply and wire your solenoids to it. there are single and double boards you can buy for dimes and you could have a bank of them doing many things, as they are quite small.



I have no personal experience with open source boards but that is what my project is for