Thank you!

I was getting this on my M5StickC-Plus, on the 10th/Oct/2022, with all the latest board/library updates.

I hope everyone else can find this thread!

For me the file I had to add those lines to was:

C:\Users[login name]\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\m5stack\hardware\esp32\2.0.5\boards.txt

Support have contacted me, it's an MCX connector!
The one on the LoRa module is female, so the plug you buy needs to be an MCX Male connector.

I've bought these converters for SMA plugs:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B012THC0FO

The MCX connector is exactly the same one as on most of the SDR USB sticks... https://www.amazon.co.uk/TenYua-Digital-Receiver-RTL2832U-R820T2

So if you already have a USB software defined radio hanging around, the rubbish little twig antenna can be cut off the cable, and it reused as a J antenna cable!

Thank you for this awesome tutorial.

I've got my copper wire on order, and am looking forward to putting it together. =D

Thanks to some brilliant recent inventions, there's now antenna analysers for $50, called "NanoVNA". You can use them to perfectly tune the J Pole antenna, so as much of the transmit power as possible leaves the antenna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYeFpiqY8c

As my title!

Thank you everyone!

xx

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atomu-esp32-development-kit-with-usb-a

It's the odd one out when everything else I've seen is a USB-C.

Do you think there was a certain use in mind to require this kind of plug?

@m5stack Any idea when that engineer will add I2C to the M5StickC Plus? I just added it to my own copy and it only took 15 minutes. It'd make a lot more M5StickC programs compatible with the Plus too!

@m5stack Thank you!

I'm going through all my M5Stack purchases and making something for each of them.
My latest project is a 4 degrees of freedom (basically 4 servos) robot arm featuring some ultra tiny 1.7g hk-5320 servos and a bit of 3D printing that I'll use my M5StickC Plus and the C- Back Hat... the worlds smallest DIY robot arm!

In the mean time, I wanted to test some code out on an arm and I found the cheapest one was on banggood.... £15 all in, including the servos.

It doesn't come with a controller board - but that's ideal, as the M5Stick's going to be the controller!

A 4 DOF robot arm is interesting - it's movement can be broken down into 3 main parts:

1. 1 motor spins your arm around a half circle. (servos usually go 180 degrees max)
2. 1 motor controls the grasping clamp at the end.
3. The magic happens with the last 2 motors... they're just like your own shoulder and elbow. Imagine resting your shoulder on a desk, rotating your shoulder joint and moving your arm across the desk and bending your elbow means you can reach all parts of the desk surface.

Servos are evil, they take an angle as their mode of control. So the sticking point with MOST the simple controllers you see is that you have to move each servo at a time, angling the arm out, then angling it down to pick something up.

It'd be much easier to ask it to move to an x/y position away from the base of the arm.

With that in mind, if you want to write your own servo robot arm controller, I've included a function I found that given an X/Y position, provides the two servo angles for the "shoulder and elbow" part of the robot:

https://codepen.io/SarahC/pen/ExXMgJx

And here's the robot arm I found:
https://www.banggood.com/Small-Hammer-3D-Print-DIY-4DOF-RC-Robot-Arm-Kit-With-SG90-Servos-p-1451689.html