Sir Cumference wrote:Running a motor directly from an Arduino pin is generally not a good idea.
Indeed you were right, the Arduino was fried (after a few weeks from the date I posted this thread), thankfully no release method that depends on it was used
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He is back though , let me search my hard disk for this piece.
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Sir Cumference wrote:Running a motor directly from an Arduino pin is generally not a good idea.
Indeed you were right, the Arduino was fried (after a few weeks from the date I posted this thread), thankfully no release method that depends on it was used
Sir Cumference wrote:William hasn't been around for a couple of years.
He is back though , let me search my hard disk for this piece.
Welcome back
If you have not fried an Arduino, you have not played enough.
I can safely say I have not fried an Arduino, still I believe I have played enough (though I can always play more)
Its just that I don't own an Arduino and never had.
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Slave_L wrote:
I can safely say I have not fried an Arduino, still I believe I have played enough (though I can always play more)
Its just that I don't own an Arduino and never had.
Get one! Make it smoke!
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I've had many dozens of Arduino/ESP8266 devices and not fried one yet. One that had a fake FTDI chip was trashed by a driver update (google FTDIgate but only if you're very very bored). Always calculate that you won't exceed the per-pin or per-device current and don't use inductive loads and you'll be fine. For controlling a small motor I'd use a ULN2003-family buffer (you can use channels in parallel for higher loads) and a diode across the load to dump back-emf.
I've had enough other electronics die and with experience you can recognise the different smells of burning resistors, capacitors, silicon and PCBs. There are worse smells but not many.
Oh I know all about the smell of burning electronics.
When I was little, I had a pocket piano. Very small thing with I think 16 buttons or so. Only one tone at a time, playing a synthy piano sound. It was a fun toy to have although I could play far better on my parents organ, but that put aside.
One day, the battery died. It had one of those round flat button style batteries. Of course, I had plenty of AA, AAA, etc batteries, but none of those weird button style batteries. Using some electrical wire I connected one of my AA batteries.
See? It works too this way!
Suddenly my piano was awesome. It had this overdrive sound now. I played 10 notes on it before it stopped, some smoke came out and this nasty smell...
There went the chip. XD
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