Kristoffer Richardsson
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Bike turning signal

Be safe when biking at night with blinking lights when signalling to turn

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Bike turning signal

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Schematics

Mounting the LED-ring

Mount the LED-ring under the Crazyflie, as always

Code

Bike turn LED ring effect

C/C++
Add this snippet to deck/drivers/src/ledring12.c, for instance after the other effects.
/*************** Bike turn effect *******************/

static void bikeLightRender(uint8_t buffer[][3], int flashCount);
static void bikeLightFlash(uint8_t buffer[][3], bool on);

#define SET_ORANGE(dest, intensity) dest[0] = intensity; dest[1] = intensity / 2; dest[2] = 0;

#define BL_NORMAL 0
#define BL_TURNING 1

static int flashCount = 0;
#define NR_OF_FLASHES 4
#define COUNTS_PER_FLASH 20

static float gyroHist = 0.0;

static void bikeLight(uint8_t buffer[][3], bool reset) {
  static int gyroXId, gyroYId, gyroZId, accYId, accZId;
  static bool isInitialized = false;
  static int state = BL_NORMAL;

  if (!isInitialized) {
    gyroXId = logGetVarId("gyro", "x");
    gyroYId = logGetVarId("gyro", "y");
    gyroZId = logGetVarId("gyro", "z");
    accYId = logGetVarId("acc", "y");
    accZId = logGetVarId("acc", "z");
    isInitialized = true;
  }

  gyroHist = gyroHist * 0.8 + logGetFloat(gyroXId) + logGetFloat(gyroYId) + logGetFloat(gyroYId);
  float accY = logGetFloat(accYId);
  float accZ = logGetFloat(accZId);

  switch (state) {
    case BL_NORMAL:
      if (accY < -0.5 && accZ > -0.5 && gyroHist > 2500) {
        flashCount = NR_OF_FLASHES * COUNTS_PER_FLASH;
        state = BL_TURNING;
      }
      break;
    case BL_TURNING:
      flashCount--;
      if (flashCount <= 0) {
        state = BL_NORMAL;
      }
      bikeLightRender(buffer, flashCount);
      break;
    default:
      // Ignore
      break;
  }
}

static void bikeLightRender(uint8_t buffer[][3], int flashCount) {
  bool on = flashCount % COUNTS_PER_FLASH > COUNTS_PER_FLASH / 2;
  bikeLightFlash(buffer, on);
}

static void bikeLightFlash(uint8_t buffer[][3], bool on) {
  int intensity = 0;
  if (on) {
    intensity = 0xff;
  }

  int i;
  for (i = 0; i < NBR_LEDS; i++) {
  	SET_ORANGE(buffer[i], intensity);
  }
}

Register the LED ring effect and make it the default effect

C/C++
Register the new LED-ring effect. This code should not be pasted, but shows modifications needed. It also goes into deck/drivers/src/ledring12.c.
// Find this array and add the bikeLIght
Ledring12Effect effectsFct[] =
{
  blackEffect,
  whiteSpinEffect,
  colorSpinEffect,
  tiltEffect,
  brightnessEffect,
  spinEffect2,
  doubleSpinEffect,
  solidColorEffect,
  ledTestEffect,
  batteryChargeEffect,
  boatEffect,
  siren,
  gravityLight,
  virtualMemEffect,
  
  // Add here, index 14 in the array
  bikeLight,
}; //TODO Add more

// effect is holding the current effect.
// Find it and set it to our new bikeLight effect
static uint32_t effect = 14;

// If you want to log the gyroHist variable and plot it in the PC client, add this somewhere at the end
LOG_GROUP_START(ring2)
LOG_ADD(LOG_FLOAT, gyroHist, &gyroHist)
LOG_GROUP_STOP(ring2)

Credits

Kristoffer Richardsson

Kristoffer Richardsson

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Developer at Bitcraze

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