Tim Paterson

Add a Smart Digital Readout to Your Milling Machine — Part 2
June 2020
Fix the common pitfalls of using a manual milling machine with a DRO.

Add a Smart Digital Readout to Your Milling Machine — Part 1
May 2020
Fix the common pitfalls of using a manual milling machine with a DRO.

Controlling the Beast — Interfacing Analog Controls in a Digital World
October 2015
Utilizing retired parts from former BattleBots™ competitor, Hexadecimator, get some insight into working with analog-to-digital signals and build a go-cart in the process.

Compute Square Roots Fast
January 2008
My particular application — as we discuss here — is in filtering input data used to calibrate the odometer in a road rally computer. After computing a best-fit line using a linear regression on a set of data points, square roots are needed to compute the distance of each data point from the line. If a data point is too far off the line, it is discarded on the assumption of human error and the line is recalculated. Square Root on a PIC in the November ‘06 issue of Nuts & Volts ...