From c1f08f55a12781cc3faad975115793b742536c37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sadeep Madurange <sadeep@asciimx.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:39:01 +0800
Subject: RFM-PWM issue.

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diff --git a/_site/feed.xml b/_site/feed.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2025-12-27T22:43:05+08:00</updated><id>/feed.xml</id><title type="html">ASCIIMX | Log</title><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><entry><title type="html">Matrix Rain: 2025 refactor</title><link href="/log/matrix-digital-rain/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Matrix Rain: 2025 refactor" /><published>2025-12-21T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-12-21T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/matrix-digital-rain</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The 2022 version worked but had some loose ends. Unicode support was inflexible–couldn’t mix ASCII with Katakana; Phosphor decay was stored in a separate array when it should’ve been packed with RGB; Code was harder to read than it needed to be.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Fingerprint door lock (LP)</title><link href="/log/fpm-door-lock-lp/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Fingerprint door lock (LP)" /><published>2025-08-18T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-08-18T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/fpm-door-lock-lp</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Second iteration of the RF door lock. Old version worked but drew too much quiescent current. Sensor and servo pulled 13.8mA and 4.6mA idle. Linear regulators were a disaster. Battery didn’t last 24 hours.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">High-side MOSFET switching</title><link href="/log/mosfet-switches/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="High-side MOSFET switching" /><published>2025-06-22T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-06-22T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/mosfet-switches</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Needed low-power switching for the fingerprint door lock. Servo and FPM draw high quiescent current–had to cut power electronically during sleep. MOSFETs can do this.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">ATmega328P at 3.3V and 5V</title><link href="/log/arduino-uno/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="ATmega328P at 3.3V and 5V" /><published>2025-06-10T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-06-10T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/arduino-uno</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Quick reference for wiring ATmega328P ICs at 5V and 3.3V. 5V uses 16MHz crystal, 3.3V uses 8MHz.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Fingerprint door lock (RF)</title><link href="/log/fpm-door-lock-rf/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Fingerprint door lock (RF)" /><published>2025-06-05T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-06-05T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/fpm-door-lock-rf</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Wanted to unlock door with fingerprint, wirelessly to avoid drilling.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Bumblebee: browser automation</title><link href="/log/bumblebee/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Bumblebee: browser automation" /><published>2025-04-02T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-04-02T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/bumblebee</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Built with Andy Zhang for an employer. Tool to automate web scraping script generation.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">ATSAM3X8E bare-metal programming</title><link href="/log/arduino-due/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="ATSAM3X8E bare-metal programming" /><published>2024-09-16T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2024-09-16T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/arduino-due</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Notes on programming ATSAM3X8E chips (Arduino Due) without bootloader. Tested on OpenBSD.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Etlas: e-paper dashboard</title><link href="/log/etlas/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Etlas: e-paper dashboard" /><published>2024-09-05T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2024-09-05T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/etlas</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Repurposed e-reader prototype into something for regular use. News, stocks, weather dashboard. ESP32 NodeMCU D1 + 7.5” Waveshare e-paper + DHT22 sensor.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">ESP32 e-reader prototype</title><link href="/log/e-reader/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="ESP32 e-reader prototype" /><published>2023-10-24T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2023-10-24T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/e-reader</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[First project with e-paper displays and ESP32.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Neo4J A* search</title><link href="/log/neo4j-a-star-search/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Neo4J A* search" /><published>2018-03-06T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2018-03-06T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/neo4j-a-star-search</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Back in 2018, we used Neo4J graph database to track the movement of marine vessels. We were interested in the shortest path a ship could take through a network of about 13,000 route points. Graph theoretic algorithms provide optimal solutions to such problems, and the set of route points lends itself well to graph-based modelling.]]></summary></entry></feed>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2025-12-28T07:38:36+08:00</updated><id>/feed.xml</id><title type="html">ASCIIMX | Log</title><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><entry><title type="html">Matrix Rain: 2025 refactor</title><link href="/log/matrix-digital-rain/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Matrix Rain: 2025 refactor" /><published>2025-12-21T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-12-21T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/matrix-digital-rain</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The 2022 version worked but had some loose ends. Unicode support was inflexible–couldn’t mix ASCII with Katakana; Phosphor decay was stored in a separate array when it should’ve been packed with RGB; Code was harder to read than it needed to be.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Fingerprint door lock (LP)</title><link href="/log/fpm-door-lock-lp/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Fingerprint door lock (LP)" /><published>2025-08-18T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-08-18T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/fpm-door-lock-lp</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Second iteration of the RF door lock. Old version worked but drew too much quiescent current. Sensor and servo pulled 13.8mA and 4.6mA idle. Linear regulators were a disaster. Battery didn’t last 24 hours.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">High-side MOSFET switching</title><link href="/log/mosfet-switches/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="High-side MOSFET switching" /><published>2025-06-22T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-06-22T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/mosfet-switches</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Needed low-power switching for the fingerprint door lock. Servo and FPM draw high quiescent current–had to cut power electronically during sleep. MOSFETs can do this.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">ATmega328P at 3.3V and 5V</title><link href="/log/arduino-uno/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="ATmega328P at 3.3V and 5V" /><published>2025-06-10T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-06-10T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/arduino-uno</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Quick reference for wiring ATmega328P ICs at 5V and 3.3V. 5V uses 16MHz crystal, 3.3V uses 8MHz.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Fingerprint door lock (RF)</title><link href="/log/fpm-door-lock-rf/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Fingerprint door lock (RF)" /><published>2025-06-05T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-06-05T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/fpm-door-lock-rf</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Wanted to unlock door with fingerprint, wirelessly to avoid drilling.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Bumblebee: browser automation</title><link href="/log/bumblebee/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Bumblebee: browser automation" /><published>2025-04-02T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2025-04-02T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/bumblebee</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Built with Andy Zhang for an employer. Tool to automate web scraping script generation.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">ATSAM3X8E bare-metal programming</title><link href="/log/arduino-due/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="ATSAM3X8E bare-metal programming" /><published>2024-09-16T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2024-09-16T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/arduino-due</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Notes on programming ATSAM3X8E chips (Arduino Due) without bootloader. Tested on OpenBSD.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Etlas: e-paper dashboard</title><link href="/log/etlas/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Etlas: e-paper dashboard" /><published>2024-09-05T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2024-09-05T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/etlas</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Repurposed e-reader prototype into something for regular use. News, stocks, weather dashboard. ESP32 NodeMCU D1 + 7.5” Waveshare e-paper + DHT22 sensor.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">ESP32 e-reader prototype</title><link href="/log/e-reader/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="ESP32 e-reader prototype" /><published>2023-10-24T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2023-10-24T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/e-reader</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[First project with e-paper displays and ESP32.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Neo4J A* search</title><link href="/log/neo4j-a-star-search/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Neo4J A* search" /><published>2018-03-06T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2018-03-06T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>/log/neo4j-a-star-search</id><author><name>W. D. Sadeep Madurange</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Back in 2018, we used Neo4J graph database to track the movement of marine vessels. We were interested in the shortest path a ship could take through a network of about 13,000 route points. Graph theoretic algorithms provide optimal solutions to such problems, and the set of route points lends itself well to graph-based modelling.]]></summary></entry></feed>
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diff --git a/_site/log/fpm-door-lock-rf/index.html b/_site/log/fpm-door-lock-rf/index.html
index e2da50a..96dc356 100644
--- a/_site/log/fpm-door-lock-rf/index.html
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@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ controller (back). Encrypted RF link between them.</p>
 <p>PCB specs: 2-layer, 1oz copper, 0.3mm traces (0.5mm for power). Ground plane.
 Both subsystems worked—could control servo from sensor over RF.</p>
 
+<p>2025-06: NRF24L01+ on the back controller stopped working after mounting on
+PCB. RFM is too close to PWM line. Fixed by soldering a large 47uF (16V)
+electrolytic capacitor between VCC and ground.</p>
+
 <p>Power problems became clear. Linear regulators dissipated too much heat. Sensor
 and servo drew 13.8mA and 4.6mA quiescent—unacceptable for battery. Servo
 inrush current can exceed 1A. Trace width (0.3mm), especially for servo and
diff --git a/_site/posts.xml b/_site/posts.xml
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