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I've been wrestling with this decision in my fantasy leagues, and KUBIAK thinks it's a neck and neck. So I broke it down myself, starting with attempts: last year Jimmy Graham had 149 targets to Gronks 124.
Them being neck and neck makes sense on the surface, until I saw that KUBIAK has Graham's targets taking a big hit, while Gronks stay close to the same.
I calculated the amount of targets each player on the Saints and Patriots is receiving. (I asked in the past why QB Attempts and adding up the targets were different numbers and was told that QB attempts were different due to things like camp battles and inaccuracy of trying to predict exact targets)
When adding up the Saints WR, TE, and RB pass attempts, KUBIAK has Drew Brees at 576 attempts. KUBIAK itself seems to disagree with this, as it's projecting 626 attempts. Brees hit 630+ 4 times within the last 5 years.
The Saints have added a few rookies and their D doesn't look to get much better than last year after Bountygate, so this'd seem to favor continuing passing a ton. They haven't added any receivers (Don't get me wrong, I love Toon as much as the next guy. . .) to take away from Graham's workload, who in targets was really the #1 WR on the team.
Tom Brady came to 624 attempts to WRs/RBs/TEs (I removed Addai since he's not on the team). Tom Brady had 611 last year, in what was a career year for attempts for him. In his entire career, he's only hit above 580 twice - last year, and 2002.
The Patriots have also drafted heavy D, seem to have improved their running game, and picked up another high volume WR to further dilute players like Gronks attempts. Hernandez also missed a few games to increase Gronks targets as well.
So all this pretty much creates 3 long-winded questions for me:
1) Why does KUBIAK think Graham's targets drop so much?
2) Why does it think Gronk's targets stay close to the same? Trends seem to suggest they'll drop quite a bit.
3) What does this mean for Brandon Lloyd, who it seems to think is essentially taking the Deion Branch role?
5 replies , Last at 30 Aug 2012, 6:40am by FrenchEagles
1) I am willing to bet they are just regressing him. Could be they expect Graham to have to help block since they lost Nicks, as his replacement can't help out his tackle as much so Graham has to (look at Vernon Davis last year). I don't actually understand o-line schemes though.
2) Well, BGE never fumbled. Now they have two 2nd-year RBs. Maybe the Pats trust a Brady to Welker slant or Brady to Gronk uncoverable pass more than a RB run with young guys, keeping pass targets high. Also McDaniels only wants to throw.
3) Lloyd is probably the 4th target in this offense. I could see him having quite a few bomb TDs, but I don't think he'll be very consistent for fantasy purposes. According to ESPN Lloyd is the #18 WR taken by ADP. Ahead of Percy Harvin, Antonio Brown, and Steve Johnson. That's way too high.
I would personally take Graham ahead of Gronk in fantasy. I would avoid Lloyd at his draft position.
Well, first I'll sum it up with my core observation before diving in: KUBIAK is giving Brady around 40 more targets than his career average attempts, while giving Brees around 50 less targets than his career average in attempts.
1) If Jimmy Graham gets 40 less targets, where are they going? According to KUBIAK, they're not going to anyone, as it has Brees with 50 fewer attempts when you add up his receivers/RBs/TEs than when you look at his QB numbers.
It might not be Graham, but this means that if Brees does throw 626 times, it's underprojecting SOMEONE in the Saints offense substantially, or several people by around 10-15 targets. My guess would just be Graham as he was a 149 target, essentially number 1 WR on that team last year.
In terms of blocking, I don't really know if KUBIAK takes that into account. That said it doesn't really address the above. Graham's also a mediocre blocker.
2) I agree that the Pats will throw a lot. That said, even in 2007 Brady didn't hit 611 attempts. The obvious reason why they had so many attempts last year would be a lack of a deep threat so a ton of short/intermediate passes. In theory this number would regress to the mean Brady's career average of somewhere around 580. We have a lot of data on Brady.
This also means that someone on the Patriots is being overprojected.
3) I really have no clue who, but if Brady hits his career average, that 50 overtargets are going to have to come out of someone. I personally believe it won't be Lloyd since he's frequently targeted in other offenses, but I don't really know. Maybe it's Welker/Gronk/Hernandez each having 10-15 less targets. Maybe Stevan Ridley gets 2 receptions all year. Maybe Lloyd just goes full Ocho on the Pats. You're right though, Lloyd is scary. Really what KUBIAK is telling me about the Pats is "There's a lot of guys, hard to tell whose going to do what"
I think the biggest problem with KUBIAK here is that it doesn't account for the fact that the Patriots switched offensive coordinators in the offseason. This last season they ran the largest number of 2 TE sets of any team in the NFL by a wide margin. Now Josh McDaniels is the new as offensive coordinator. There is no evidence that McDaniels is particularly favorable to TE either in his time as a head coach or as an offensive coordinator. It may be that the Patriots ran 2 TE sets as a response to personnel (talented TEs in Gronk and Hernandez, lack of good receivers) rather than as a broader scheme, and that McDaniels will continue running more 2 TE sets due to personnel. However, the Patriots brought in Brandon Lloyd and Jabar Gaffney to shore up WR.
In short I'd take Graham because I think Gronk and Hernandez will go from being on the field together most of the time to splitting time.
Which is funny because that's only half the reason of it showing Gronk > Graham. KUBIAK actually is assuming Graham's usage drops considerably despite no new moving parts to the offense, while Gronk's usage stays nearly the same despite a new starting WR in the mix, a new offensive scheme, and a QB whose total attempts are likely to regress - or in other words, more receiving options with less passes to spread around.
Gronk is getting a TD and yardage regression, which makes sense after the year he had, but his usage is showing very close to last year.
Graham is getting a large target regression - it's probably underprojecting him by at least 20 targets conservatively, and with a TE with an accurate QB, that's a good 13 catches at minimum. I more just wasn't sure why KUBIAK thinks Graham is going to be less focal in a pass first offense.
Really interesting discussion, I was asking myself this question. Playing in a PPR league (1 PPR), adding 10 receptions to Graham moves up to 9th overall rank instead of the 14th (I added 10 yards per reception and no TD).


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I never knew that golf and curling went together, but in Canmore they mix like the bears and elk that both leave tracks in the bunkers! While Canmore isn't as spectacular golf-wise as the courses mentioned above, the community course would easily win the Congenially Award. Residing in the flats of the Bow River Valley, the routing offers grand views. While the signature hole ¬- the 16th, a par-4 of 444-yards - offers an unparalleled look at the nearby Three Sisters Mountains, the walk here is an easy stroll.
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The airplane plip-plopped down the runway to a halt before the big sign: WELCOME TO CYPRUS. Mark Parker looked out of the window and in the distance he could see the jagged wonder of the Peak of Five Fingers of the northern coastal range. In an hour or so he would be driving through the pass to Kyrenia. He stepped into the aisle, straightened out his necktie, rolled down his sleeves, and slipped into his jacket. "Welcome to Cyprus, welcome to Cyprus ..." It ran through his head. It was from Othello, he thought, but the full quotation slipped his mind.
"Anything to declare?" the customs inspector said.
"Two pounds of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kitty.
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"Mrs. Kitty Fremont phoned to say she is unable to meet you at the airport and for you to come straight to Kyrenia to the Dome Hotel. She has a room there for you."
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"Can I get a transfusion around here?"
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Fill in one of the following, Mark thought. It was: Rome, Paris, London, Madrid (and match carefully); Jose's Bar, James's Pub, Jacques's Hideaway, Joe's Joint. At the time I was covering: war, revolution, insurrection. That particular night I had a: blonde, brunette, redhead (or maybe that broad with two heads).
The man stood nose to nose with Mark, gushing on all eight cylinders now. "I was the guy who ordered a martini and they didn't have orange bitters. Now do you remember me?" Mark sighed, sipped some coffee, and braced for another onslaught. "I know you hear this all the time but I really enjoy reading your columns. Say, what are you doing in Cyprus?" The man then winked and jabbed Mark in the ribs. "Something hush-hush, I bet. Why don't we get together for a drink? I'm staying at the Palace in Nicosia." A business card was slapped into Mark's hand. "Got a few connections here, too." The man winked again.
"Oh, Mr. Parker. Your car is ready."
Mark put the cup down on the counter. "Nice seeing you again," he said, and walked out quickly. As he departed he dropped the business card into a trash basket.
The taxi headed out from the airport. Mark rested back and closed his eyes for a moment. He was glad that Kitty couldn't get to the airport to meet him. So much time had passed and there was so much to say and so much to remember. He felt a surge of excitement pass through him at the thought of seeing her again. Kitty, beautiful, beautiful, Kitty. As the taxi passed through the outer gates Mark was already lost in thought.
... Katherine Fremont. She was one of those great American traditions like Mom's apple pie, hot dogs, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. For Kitty Fremont was the proverbial "girl next door." She was the cliché of pigtails, freckles, tomboys, and braces on the teeth; and true to the cliché the braces came off one day, the lipstick went on and the sweater popped out and the ugly duckling had turned into a graceful swan. Mark smiled to himself—she was so beautiful in those days, so fresh and clean.
... and Tom Fremont. He was another American tradition. Tom was the crew-cut kid with the boyish grin who could run the hundred in ten flat, sink a basket from thirty feet out, cut a rug, and put a Model A together blindfolded. Tom Fremont had been Mark's best pal as long as he could remember for as far back as he could remember. We must have been weaned together, Mark thought.
... Tom and Kitty ... apple pie and ice cream ... hot dogs and mustard. The all-American boy, the all-American girl, and the all-American Midwest of Indiana. Yes, Tom and Kitty fitted together like the rain and springtime.
Kitty had always been a quiet girl, very deep, very thoughtful. There was a tinge of sadness in her eyes. Perhaps it was only Mark who detected that sadness, for she was joy itself to everyone around her. Kitty had been one of those wonderful towers of strength. She always had both hands on the rudder, always had the right words to say, always decent and thoughtful. But that sadness was there ... Mark knew it if no one else did.
Mark often wondered what made her so desirable. Maybe it was because she seemed so unreachable to him. The iced champagne—the look and the word that could tear a man to pieces. Anyhow, Kitty had always been Tom's girl and the most he could do was envy Tom.
Tom and Mark were roommates at State University. That first year Tom was absolutely miserable being away from Kitty. Mark remembered the hours on end he would have to listen to Tom's mournful laments and console him. Summer came, Kitty went off to Wisconsin with her parents. She was still a high-school girl and her folks wanted to dampen the fervor of the affair with a separation. Tom and Mark hitchhiked to Oklahoma to work in the oil fields.
By the time school started again Tom had cooled down considerably. To remain in Mark's company one had to sample the field. The times between Tom and Kitty's letters lengthened and the times between Tom's dates on the campus shortened. It began to look like a strike-out for the college hero and the girl back home.
By their senior year Tom had all but forgotten Kitty. He had become the Beau Brummell of State, a role befitting the ace forward on the basketball team. As for Mark, he was content to bask in Tom's glory and generally make a name for himself as one of the worst journalism students in the university's history.
Kitty came to State as a freshman.
Lightning struck!
Mark could see Kitty a thousand times and it was always as exciting as the first. This time Tom saw her the same way. They eloped a month before Tom's graduation. Tom and Kitty, Mark and Ellen, a Model A Ford, and four dollars and ten cents crossed the state line and sought out a justice of the peace. Their honeymoon was in the back seat of the Model A, bogged down in the mud of a back road and leaking like a sieve in a downpour. It was an auspicious beginning for the all-American couple.
Tom and Kitty kept their marriage a secret until a full year after his graduation. Kitty stayed on at State to finish her pre-nursing training. Nursing and Kitty seemed to go together, too, Mark always thought.
Tom worshiped Kitty. He had always been a bit wild and too independent, but he settled down to very much the devoted husband. He started out as a very little executive in a very big public relations firm. They moved to Chicago. Kitty nursed in Children's Hospital. They inched their way up, typical American style. First an apartment and then a small home. A new car, monthly bills, big hopes. Kitty became pregnant with Sandra.
Mark's thoughts snapped as the taxi slowed through the outskirts of Nicosia, the capital city that sat on the flat brown plain between the northern and southern mountain ranges. "Driver, speak English?" Mark asked.
"Yes, sir?"
"They've got a sign at the airport, Welcome to Cyprus. What is the full quotation?"
"As far as I know," the driver answered, "they're just trying to be polite to tourists."
They entered Nicosia proper. The flatness, the yellow stone houses with their red tiled roofs, the sea of date palms all reminded Mark of Damascus. The road ran alongside the ancient Venetian wall which was built in a perfect circle and surrounded the old city. Mark could see the twin minarets that spiraled over the skyline from the Turkish section of the old city. The minarets that belonged to St. Sophia's, that magnificent crusader cathedral turned into a Moslem mosque. As they drove along the wall they passed the enormous ramparts shaped like arrowheads. Mark remembered from his last visit to Cyprus that there was the odd number of eleven of these arrowheads jutting from the wall. He was about to ask the driver why eleven but decided not to.
In a matter of moments they were out of Nicosia and moving north on the plain. They passed one village after another, monotonously similar, made of gray mud-brick cottages. Each village had one water fountain which bore an inscription that it was built through the generosity of His Majesty, the King of England. In the colorless fields the peasants labored with the potato crop, working behind those magnificent beasts, the Cyprus mules.
The taxi picked up speed again and Mark sank back to his reveries.
... Mark and Ellen had gotten married a little after Tom and Kitty. It was a mistake from the first day. Two nice people not made for each other. Kitty Fremont's quiet and gentle wisdom held Mark and Ellen together. They both could come to her and pour their hearts out. Kitty kept the marriage intact long after time had run out. Then it broke wide open and they were divorced. Mark was thankful there had been no children.
After the divorce Mark moved East and began banging around from job to job, having matriculated from the world's worst journalism student to the world's worst newspaperman. He became one of those drifters who inhabit the newspaper world. It was not stupidity nor lack of talent, but complete inability to find his niche in life. Mark was a creative man and the business of routine reporting cut that creativity. Yet he had no desire to attempt the life of a creative writer. He knew that his personality would not take the demands on a novelist. So Mark hung in limbo, being neither fish nor fowl.
Each week there was a letter from Tom, and it would be filled with enthusiasm and the vigor of his climb to the top. The letters were also filled with Tom's love for Kitty and their baby girl, Sandra.
Mark remembered Kitty's letters. A calm appraisal of Tom's effervescence. Kitty always kept Mark posted on Ellen's whereabouts until Ellen remarried.
In 1938 the world opened up for Mark Parker. There was a post to be filled in Berlin with American News Syndicate, and Mark was suddenly transformed from a "newspaper bum" into the respectability of a "foreign correspondent."
In this capacity Mark proved to be a talented journeyman. He was able to fill part of his desire for creativity by developing a style that labeled him as an individual—as Mark Parker and no one else. Mark was by no means a world-beater but he did have that one great instinct of a crack foreign correspondent: an ability to smell out a story in the making.
The world was a lark. He covered Europe, Asia, and Africa from one end to the other. He had a title, he was doing work he liked, his credit was good at Jose's Bar, James's Pub, Joe's and Jacques's Hideaway, and he had an inexhaustible list of candidates for his blonde-, brunette-, or redhead-of-the-month club.
When the war broke out Mark chased all over Europe. It was good to settle back in London for a few days where a stack of mail from Tom and Kitty would be waiting.
Early in 1942 Tom Fremont enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was killed at Guadalcanal.
Two months after Tom's death, their baby, Sandra, died of polio.
Mark took emergency leave to return home, but by the time he arrived Kitty Fremont had disappeared. He searched for her without success until he had to return to Europe. To all intents she had disappeared from the face of the earth. It was strange to Mark, but that sadness that he always saw in Kitty's eyes seemed like a fulfilled prophecy.
The moment the war was over he returned to look for her again, but the trail had grown cold.
In November of 1945, American News Syndicate recalled him to Europe to cover the war-crimes trials in Nuremberg. By now Mark was an established craftsman and bore the title, "distinguished" foreign correspondent. He stayed on, turning in a brilliant series, until the top Nazis were hanged, only a few months back.
ANS granted Mark a much-needed leave of absence before transferring him to Palestine, where it appeared local war was brewing. To spend his leave in the accepted Mark Parker fashion, he chased down a passionate French UN girl he had met earlier, who had been transferred to the United Nations Relief in Athens.
It all happened from a clear blue sky. He was sitting in the American Bar, passing the time of day with a group of fellow newsmen, when the conversation somehow drifted to a particular American nurse in Salonika doing fabulous work with Greek orphans. One of the correspondents had just returned from there with a story on her orphanage.
The nurse was Kitty Fremont.
Mark inquired immediately and discovered that she was on vacation in Cyprus.
The taxi began to move upwards, out of the plain, on a twisting little road that led through the pass in the Pentadaktylos Mountains. It was turning dusk. They reached the peak and Mark ordered the car to pull over to the side.
He stepped out and looked down at the magnificent jewel-like little town of Kyrenia nestled against the sea at the foot of the mountain. To the left and above him stood the ruins of St. Hilarion Castle, haunted with the memory of Richard the Lion-Hearted and his beautiful Berengaria. He made a mental note to come back again with Kitty.
It was nearing dark as they reached Kyrenia. The little town was all white plaster and red tiled roofs, with the castle above it and the sea beside it. Kyrenia was picturesque and remote and quaint to a point where it could not have been more picturesque or remote or quaint. They passed the miniature harbor, filled with fishing smacks and small yachts, set inside two arms of a sea wall. On one arm was the quay. On the other arm stood an ancient fortress rampart, the Virgin Castle.
Kyrenia had long been a retreat for artists and retired British Army officers. It was, indeed, one of the most peaceful places on earth.
A block away from the harbor stood the Dome Hotel. Physically the big building seemed outsized and out of place for the rest of the sleepy little town. The Dome, however, had become a crossroads of the British Empire. It was known in every corner of the world that flew a Union Jack as a place where Englishmen met. It was a maze of public rooms and terraces and verandas sitting over the sea. A long pier of a hundred yards or more connected the hotel to a tiny island offshore used by swimmers and sun bathers.
The taxi pulled to a stop. The bellboy gathered in Mark's luggage. Mark paid off his driver and looked about. It was November but it was warmish yet and it was serene. What a wonderful place for a reunion with Kitty Fremont
The desk clerk handed Mark a message.
Mark darling:
I am stuck in Famagusta until nine o'clock. Will you ever forgive me??? Dying with anxiety. Love.
"I want some flowers, a bottle of scotch, and a bucket of ice," Mark said.
"Mrs. Fremont has taken care of everything," the room clerk said, handing a key to the bellboy. "You have adjoining rooms overlooking the sea."
Mark detected a smirk on the clerk's face. It was the same kind of dirty look he had seen in a hundred hotels with a hundred women. He was about to set the record straight but decided to let the clerk think anything he damned well pleased.
He gathered in the view of the sea as it turned dark, then he unpacked and mixed himself a scotch and water and drank it while he soaked in a steaming tub.
Seven o'clock ... still two hours to wait.
He opened the door of Kitty's room. It smelled good. Her bathing suit and some freshly washed hosiery hung over the bathtub. Her shoes were lined up beside the bed and her make-up on the vanity. Mark smiled. Even with Kitty gone the empty room was full of the character of an unusual person.
He went back and stretched out on his bed. What had the years done to her? What had the tragedy done? Kitty, beautiful Kitty ... please be all right. It was now November of 1946, Mark figured; when was the last time he saw her? Nineteen thirty-eight ... just before he went to Berlin for ANS. Eight years ago. Kitty would be twenty-eight years old now.
The excitement and tension caught up with Mark. He was tired and he began to doze.
The tinkle of ice cubes, a sweet sound to Mark Parker, brought him out of a deep sleep. He rubbed his eyes and groped around for a cigarette.
"You sleep as though you were drugged," a very British accent said. "I knocked for five minutes. The bellboy let me in. Hope you don't mind me helping myself to the whisky."
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Insertion of a single gene, XIST, epigenetically silences the extra chromosome 21 responsible for Down syndrome. This result, obtained via the study of laboratory cultures of patient-derived stem cells, is the culmination of years of work by a team of scientists led by Jeanne Lawrence, Ph.D., professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
The team's inspiration was dosage compensation, the natural process that silences one copy of the female mammals' two sex-determining chromosomes during embryonic development. Dosage compensation ensures that male and female cells contain roughly equal amounts of X chromosome-encoded gene products, even though the cells of females have double the number of X chromosomes that occur in males.
In earlier work, Dr. Lawrence's team investigated dosage compensation by studying the X-inactivation gene, or XIST, which encodes a large noncoding RNA molecule. In laboratory cultures of cells, this molecule was shown to cover the surface of one of the X chromosomes of female mammals. XIST's actions permanently blocked the expression of the genes on the affected X chromosome.
More recently, in gene silencing work described in a paper published July 17 in Nature, Dr. Lawrence's team mimicked this process by inserting the XIST gene into the gene-rich core of the extra chromosome 21 in lab cultures of pluripotent stem cells from patients with Down syndrome. In this paper, the authors wrote: "The XIST noncoding RNA coats chromosome 21 and triggers stable heterochromatin modifications, chromosome-wide transcriptional silencing, and DNA methylation to form a chromosome 21 Barr body."
At that time, the authors noted that they had created a "tractable, inducible system to study human chromosome silencing." With respect to trisomy silencing, the model's immediate impact was to provide "a new means to define the poorly understood cellular pathways deregulated in Down's syndrome, creating the opportunity to derive and study various patient-compatible cell types potentially relevant to Down's syndrome therapeutics."
Additional progress on this work was described by Dr. Lawrence on October 22, at a meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. "Remarkably, the RNA localized across and comprehensively silenced one of the three chromosome 21s, as shown by eight different methods, including molecular, cytological and genomic," said Dr. Lawrence.
Dr. Lawrence added the XIST-induced changes in gene expression are not limited to chromosome 21, but are genome wide: "In fact, the results indicate that the most prominent changes are in genes not encoded on chromosome 21."
Providing additional perspective about the implications of these results, Dr. Lawrence stated that genome silencing was a promising approach in studies of Down syndrome because it had the potential to identify the cellular pathologies and genome-wide pathways most directly perturbed by trisomy 21, "distinct from pervasive genetic and epigenetic variation between cell isolates and subclones." Silencing of trisomy 21 by manipulation of a single gene in living cells in vitro, said Dr. Lawrence, surmounts the first major obstacle to development of potential "chromosome therapy."
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On April 19, 1995, the day a truck bomb leveled the Oklahoma City federal building, there was only one Web hate site, run by the Ku Klux Klan. A year ago, there were 600 such sites. And an updated compilation now lists 1,400 sites.
The figures are contained in an interactive CD-ROM report on "Digital Hate 2000," released at a press conference this week by the Wiesenthal Center.
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Joined Aug 2007
118 Posts
BESC firmware development in C
Last year I ported the popular brushless ESC firmware developed in ASM by Bernhard Konze to C and modified the Arduino bootloader to be safely used in a modified TP stile ESC.
Not many people have shown interest in contributing to this effort of making a better open source ESC firmware. But I think we can still benefit from each others knowledge. Even if only 1 or 2 developers out there give some inputs, it is already worth it.
The ported source code and some more details are at the thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1349333
The literal translation of the ASM algorithms to C has a serious constraint in processing capabilities. Auxiliary calculations run in the same thread as the commutation sequence, so any calculation has to be finished between two commutation cycles. That precludes even a simple 32bit integer division (e.g. to get RPM out of commutation time).
That is why I am working in a new version that handle all real-time tasks as ISRs.
When this is done, a lot of doors will open, as there is still more than 1/2 of the program memory of the uProcessor free, and complex non time-critical calculations can be performed at will.
Why do you need to calculate RPM? I assume it is to try to get governor mode?
Couldn't you work directly with the time?
i.e. do the target rpm to time conversion once (or whenever it changes) and then inside the governor work directly with the time.
Pat MacKenzie
United States, TX, Austin
Joined Jan 2011
277 Posts
I am new to this forum, but I am an OpenSource dev for the AVR platform. If any one is interested, I am working on yet another open source ESC module designed to interface using SPI. I will post details about the project, the code, and gerber files, as soon as I get the pcb tested.
Joined Aug 2007
118 Posts
Yes, it can be done with time if no division is needed in the calculation, like, using look up tables. But it is too limiting I think.
Joined Aug 2007
118 Posts
I started this thread because I think there is a 3rt way to do it that can save development time and cost but still have the flexibility by combining aspects of both sides, and that I never found in the Arduino forums (maybe I missed it?).
The idea is to use as hardware platform the cheap, easy to find and proven TowerPro stile ESCs because:
-You can get one for under 10Eur each on e-bay (ok, add 1h of work soldering a couple of wires as to get the RS232 port of the AVR free).
-HW design is proven to work (one trace in the wrong place, one ground not here but there and EMC will make it a mess out of it. I have seen this even in commercial systems. High current PWM + CPU + analogue lines = not something I like to mess with).
-It is very flexible, as the AVR can easily be reprogrammable.
Unless one of the goal is really to design PCBs and solder SMDs or some more advanced stuff is really needed, like current sensing, or advanced BEMF filters, I would definitely stick to COTS.
But the best firmware I could find for the TowerPro ESC is written in ASM, that is really efficient as a drop-in solution for the users. But ASM is hard to understand and modify, so my idea was to port the firmware to Arduino C.
The idea to use Arduino instead of WinAVR is that new firmwares can be modified and tested in seconds once the Arduino bootloader is burned into the TowerPro ESC by using the same 3 wires that are used for controlling the ESC.
I mean, each community has it's own goals. What I am looking for is to use all of my available time for software development. With the a nice extra that, when it is finished, anyone with a cheap TowerPro ESC will be able to use it.
Well, if there is already a community working on this approach please let me know, as I don't want to waist time re-inventing the wheel .
Joined Aug 2007
118 Posts
Test rig
Just posting some pictures of the test rig I am using.
As both, commands and firmware update are done by the same 3 wires (standard servo connector), I used a spare Arduino Duemilanove without the AVR as USB->5V_rs232 converter, just because that was what I had at hand...
I also made some useful adapters out of Dean connectors (unbelievable how these are prone to off-label use ):
- 0.01OHM shunt for current measurement.
- Car fuse support.
- Car headlight lamp support (thanks for the tip Eduardo (agressiva)!)
I use either the fuse or lamp depending on the kind of test. In a low current test (well, "supposed" to be low-current at least), the lamp is better as it offers extra visual information and limits the current to a couple of amps thus saving the FETs. For full power tests the lamp will drop the voltage too much, hence the fuse.
The digital kitchen scale is to measure thrust. But as I have RPM information directly from the ESC and knowing that for the same Reynolds Number range thrust goes with the square of RPM, I need to use it only once for a given propeller. Thrust measurement is not really necessary for firmware development, but I just felt like doing it...
United States, TX, Austin
Joined Jan 2011
277 Posts
United States, TX, Austin
Joined Jan 2011
277 Posts
measurement equipment
I have also build my test equipment. My aim was to measure not only the thrust but also the torque of the motor to get the efficiency of the motor as well as of the propeller. For the axis I used an old harddrive. The two kitchen scales have a digital output. The RPM I will get from the BLC. So, in the end, I will be able to run complete measurements automatically.
In the moment I can run them only by hand, but with thrust and torque.
Prague, Czech_Republic
Joined Aug 2010
103 Posts
A newbie in your forum
Thanks to quax to directing me to this forum and his original firmware, also to Renato for all the work he's done and he's going to do!!!
I started loving a multicopters (I'm flying a tricopter and now I built also quad).
Currently I'm using KK multicontroller and PPM ESC's for flying, Arduino and I2C is planned when my knowledge allows it. With C I unfortunately ended at "Hello world" so it will need a lot of time to get to state when I could be helpful for the project.
I'd like to adapt your C firmware for ESC's I have - for now with the smallest possible work because I want to fly asap and not after a year
My ESC's have Atmega48 at 8MHZ internal oscillator and feedback signals at PORT C 2,3,4 pins.
Honestly I currently don't understand very much of the code, can you give me few tips?
1) Do you think I have a chance to modify it for 8 MHz and Atmega 48? (Because of performance and my limited knowledge...) Where can I enter processor frequency and the processor type in the code?
2) Can be feedback pins defined on another pins (special functions on pins)?
3) Can be firmware burned directly into the chip (Atmega48 doesn't have boot section). Will it work then?
Sorry for such "stupid" questions, in Arduino I'm really beginner, what I need primary is to modify ESC's I already bought and want to use, developement should come later...
Thanks for any answer.
Prague, Czech_Republic
Joined Aug 2010
103 Posts
ESC using ATmega48
Addition to my previous post:
I tested compiling your code to see how it works (my first compiling under Arduino enviroment) and I found that Arduino offers me only known Arduino boards and obviously none with ATmega48 exists. Except this I found that code compiled for ATmega8 have 4.6kB so it probably won't fit to 4kB flash of ATmega48. Do you guess there can be for my purpose removed enough unnecessary parts of code to get under 4kB?
Joined Aug 2007
118 Posts
Joined Aug 2007
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Joined Aug 2007
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Is your goal to profile propellers as well? Or is it just like some extra data after testing a motor/ESC?
Do you notice any remarkable difference in efficiency between motors? From my (purely theoretical) point of view, the only factors would be magnet field strength and copper conductivity... I am a bit skeptical about all those expensive motors. But do you notice something with your measurements?
Prague, Czech_Republic
Joined Aug 2010
103 Posts
ESC using ATmega48
What I'll definitly need to know is if the feedback signals can be wired to any pin of PORT C and what parts of code can I easily remove to save some flash size and get under 4kB... (When I don't need governor, serial, etc...)
Can you advise me some tips?
Thanks even for that!
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Known for his critically acclaimed contemporary thrillers, New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin explores intriguing new territory in Worthy Brown's Daughter, a compelling historical drama, set in nineteenth-century Oregon, that combines a heartbreaking story of slavery and murder with classic Margolin plot twists. Phillip sat down with Helen Raptis to share how the book is a labor of love, decades in the making and a vastly different read than it started out.
In Worthy Brown's Daughter, one of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.
At the same time, hanging judge Jed Tyler, a powerful politician with a barren personal life, becomes infatuated with a beautiful gold-digger who is scheming to murder Benjamin Gillette, Oregon's wealthiest businessman. When Gillette appears to die from natural causes, Sharon Hill produces a forged contract of marriage and Tyler must decide if he will sacrifice his reputation to defend that of the woman who inspired his irrational obsession.
At Worthy's trial, Matthew saves Worthy by producing a stunning courtroom surprise and his attempt to stop the deadly fortune hunter ends in a violent climax.
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Ensemble Discovery believes a new class of therapeutic compounds - and the novel means to synthesize them - could transform the drug discovery process.
By Kevin Davies
April 1, 2008 | For decades, most drug discovery programs have essentially focused on two very different classes of molecules. On the one hand, small molecular weight compounds plucked from massive libraries, the traditional domain of big pharma. At the opposite end of the scale, much larger biologics, such as recombinant antibodies, have found increasing success in recent years.
But a small biopharma in Cambridge, Mass., Ensemble Discovery, believes that a new class of compounds - not very imaginatively called the Ensemblins - could provide new leads against a variety of intractable targets, even protein-protein interactions.
Ensemble was founded in 2004, based on an ingenious concept of DNA programmable chemistry developed by Harvard University professor (and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator) David Liu. Liu is a "brilliant young chemist and tenured professor" who was seeking a commercial outlet for the technology says Ensemble's Chief Business Officer, Laurence Reid.
Over a couple of years, Doug Cole, a partner at Flagship Ventures, "worked with David, [and] gained his trust, watching the technology blossom," says Reid, who spent a decade with Millennium Pharmaceuticals. "It's a sophisticated technology - it took a while for it to be ready to roll into a company." Liu is now chair of the scientific advisory board.
"We have exclusive rights to his technology in all industries," says Reid. "Long term, there is potential for discovery of new chemical modalities in other industries, but right now, we're focused on new compound discovery in drug discovery." Other interests include various diagnostic and biodetection applications.
Ensemble's CSO, Nick Terrett, joined in 2006, moving a few blocks north from Pfizer's Research Technology Center. (See "Pfizer's Pursuit of Technology," Bio•IT World, April 2006) Terrett spent two decades at Pfizer and played a lead role in the discovery of Viagra. He says it's a refreshing challenge to be part of a small (35-member) start-up, and to help define a new therapeutic modality. He talks in the precise terms one would expect of a Cambridge-educated organic chemist.
"Ensemblins are a range of structural classes that are inspired by nature," Terrett explains. That said, about 18 months ago, Ensemble elected to focus on producing libraries of macrocyclic ringed structures. Naturally occurring examples include cyclosporine, erythromycin, and vancomycin, which contain closed rings of at least 12 or 13 atoms. "This ring structure is a way of generating large molecules that can bind to a protein surface," says Terrett. "You don't get a major entropic loss upon binding, because they're not as flexible as an open-chained molecule."
Famous Five
Using Liu's DNA-based synthesis methods, Ensemble builds collections of macrocyclic compounds. These are composed of "diverse building blocks with variable ring sizes, a measure of conformation rigidity, and potential for distributed binding to protein," says Terrett.
Last year, Ensemble made its first big library of 20,000 compounds, ranging from molecular weight 500 to 1000, with a median weight of about 650. This is significantly larger than the infamous 500-molecular-weight threshold made famous by former Pfizer chemist Chris Lipinski's "Rule of Five" (Ro5).
Indeed, none of Ensemble's macrocyclics meet all of Lipinski's Ro5 criteria. There's overlap, certainly. For example, most molecules have good lipophilicity and an acceptable number of hydrogen bond donors and acceptors. But in virtually all cases, the molecular weight is significantly larger.
Nevertheless, Ensemble views this as a distinct advantage. "We have evidence that these compounds still have drug-like properties, despite falling outside Lipinski's Rule-of-Five parameter," says Terrett. Such properties have been demonstrated in dozens of published studies, showing significant enhancements in potency, selectivity, physicochemisty, and pharmacokinetics when open-chained molecules are converted to closed rings.
Moreover, Terrett argues that there is "probably more diversity in all macrocyclic compounds from molecular weight 500-2000 than in all molecules below 500," because of the greater variation in larger molecules. "Lipinski says nothing about ability to bind to a target. The Rule of Five is about the ability to get to the target," he stresses.
"It's a magical couple of hundred Daltons [extra]," adds Reid. "People have bought into the Rule of Five as a guide to drug discovery way beyond what Lipinski ever imagined or advocated, because it was a look back at what people had done historically."
"Very few groups have cottoned onto the opportunity," says Terrett. "We are targeting protein-protein interactions, proteases, phosphatases, many of which are significant [therapeutic] opportunities." (See sidebar: "Target Practice," below) One example is the binding of epidermal growth factor to its receptor. The ligand spreads across the receptor surface, with lots of low-energy interactions. "Small molecules won't have sufficient binding energy to disrupt that," says Terrett. "They're much better for binding to kinases."
As for protein-protein interactions, the contact surface area could be thousands of square angstroms, says Terrett. "Small molecular-weight compounds don't have enough size to actually prevent the interaction. So size is an important part of this." Reid uses the analogy of a spider, albeit one with only four legs, stretching out over its protein target.
Until now, says Reid, macrocyclic compounds could only be made in small batches. "Making diverse collections has never been done before," he says. "We're accessing numbers way beyond what people have done before." Ensemble synthesized some 30,000 compounds in 2007, and is now producing 100,000 with a team of three chemists.
Closing the Loop
The key to making these large diverse collections of macrocyclic compounds is the ingenious method developed by Liu at Harvard. "Making macrocyclics is synthetically very challenging," Terrett explains, particularly the final ring closure step. "Using DNA-programmed chemistry, because the molecule is tethered to DNA at both ends, we can actually control that ring-closure reaction."
The genius of Liu's method is to tether chemical domains to custom DNA strands. "Every compound we make in the library has a unique DNA sequence attached to it," says Terrett. "It's more than a barcode, because it actually directs the synthesis."
The compounds are synthesized in a step-by-step process, with the tethered DNA serving two key purposes. First, each incoming reagent molecule has a short DNA tag that hybridizes specifically to the template DNA strand (usually 59 bases in length). This duplex formation brings the two chemical groups into close proximity, and as Terrett explains: "You get a massive effective increase in molarity. This drives the specificity of the chemistry, and the formation of new covalent bonds."
"The specificity of those DNA codons is key," says Nathan Walsh, the company's senior informatics scientist. He spent considerable time "trying to figure out which pieces of DNA you can have next to each other, such that when you come in with a complementary piece [of DNA], it wouldn't stick in places it shouldn't."
This process then repeats two or three times. The chemists introduce the next reagent, with its own unique DNA tag. The DNA strands anneal, and the budding macrocyclic compound adds another piece. At each step, a variety of chemical groups can be introduced, the diversity sharply increasing. The final step is to close the macrocyclic ring, using a handful of different compounds, using a classic chemical procedure such as the Wittig reaction.
The synthetic process really begins with a large library of different DNA sequences. "You make every combination of codon sequence. It's like a translation from a DNA sequence to a macrocyclic structure," says Walsh.
It took Ensemble's team several months to optimize the process, but now Terrett says, "We can make anything from a few hundred to 10,000 compounds. It's very hard to do in large numbers by other means." He adds that, "In theory, there's nothing stopping you from going to 20,000, 100,000, 1 million compounds. You just need to have enough DNA sequences to start off with."
Screen TestWith a respectable library of compounds now at its disposal, Ensemble can screen those compounds against a protein of interest, using affinity selection to identify the strongest binding compounds. The protein target is denatured to elute the binders, which are identified in turn via their DNA tags. Subsequently, Ensemble will evaluate whether their hits exhibit agonist or antagonist properties.
Walsh explains that the binding profile is compared "pre" and "post," meaning before and after attachment of the target protein to the column. The "fold enrichment," or strength of binding, is calculated from the ratio of post to pre binding.
Ensemble's biggest library of 20,000 compounds is actually divided into four pools of 5,000 compounds, each pool representing a different linker molecule - lysine, ornithine, aminophenylalanine, or diaminobutanoic acid. The ring sizes range from 15-27 atoms.
In a typical screening, perhaps 20-30 compounds would meet certain criteria and qualify as hits. The compounds' pharmacokinetic and physicochemical properties - solubility, lipophilicity, and so on - are measured externally. "A lot of the parts of the process we start in house, and once we're comfortable it works in our hands, we let other people do it for us," says Walsh. That includes some of the chemistry, DNA sequencing, and metabolic profiling.
Ensemble has identified a couple of dozen attractive targets for its internal research, including phosphatases, proteases, and protein-protein interactions. Reid explains that they are prioritizing cases where there is "significant medical need and commercial opportunity, but for the majority of targets, there's a validated mechanism."
Potential targets include PTP1B (diabetes), BACE (Alzheimer's disease), oncology targets (such as the Bcl-2 and XIAP proteins) and immune system targets (such as TNF). "They're all attractive," says Terrett. "We've not applied any hierarchy in house. We've worked up the assays, run the screens. If we see activity we pursue it. If we don't see activity, then too bad."
Time Course
Adds Reid: "Over the next year or two, we'll clearly select 1-2 diseases to become more biologically expert in, but right now, our sense is that there's a whole set of different kinds of biochemistries that could be uniquely addressed by this technology. There's a lot of great biology out there that's either effectively been undruggable or is only druggable if you can bring an antibody against it." So while Ensemble concentrates on its chemistry and technology platform, "we want the biology to be as validated as possible."
Ensemble is still in the hit validation stage, but Terrett says he aims to have validated leads by the end of 2008. From there, he says it's "quite possible" that they will identify clinical candidates in 2009, and move into the clinic in 2010.
Reid says wryly that Ensemble would benefit from the "validation and expertise that a major pharma would bring to the table. In the last 18 months, we've honed this strategy and validated the platform. We've shown that you can drive affinities up. Pharma has said this is exciting, but show me it works in your version of drug discovery."
Reid and Terrett are open to partnerships with other companies who have refractory targets, and would be interested to strike alliances in which Ensemble would lead the screening and identification of active compounds.
"We're at the beginning of a real expansion of the program," Reid says. "We have the data in hand such that pharma companies are now saying, 'I can believe that the Ensemblins have the potential to be drug like. Let's talk about my favorite targets that have been hard for me to drug. How can we work together?'"
Sidebar: Target Practice
One of Ensemble's early drug target prospects is a phosphatase called PTP1B, which Terrett calls "a very tough target." After screening it against its 20,000 compound library, scientists used data visualization software called Miner 3D to perform "instant SAR." The compound hits are neatly categorized by shared chemical groups, sorted along lines and planes on the 3D image. The four colors distinguish the four different linker groups used to close the macrocyclic ring.
Once hits have been identified, Ensemble synthesizes milligram quantities of the pure compound, using solid-phase and solution-phase chemistries.
The best hit so far for PTB1B has a binding efficiency of 2 µm. Terrett concedes: "That's not great, but it's very good for this target and type of molecule. We're making more analogues, trying to push the potency up. But we're [also] trying to keep the compound that has good pharmacokinetic properties." Ideally, he'd like to be able to do more in silico visualization, but no one really knows the exact binding site on the phosphatase yet.
A second example concerns a major oncology target. The library screening was performed in the presence (or absence) of the protein's natural pepti de target, thus providing a means to assess specificity.
Twenty compounds bound and passed the initial criteria. Based on those, Ensemble chemists made a follow-up library of 1700 compounds, used in an iterative library screening. The best candidate shows 650-fold enrichment, compared to the natural peptide's 800-fold enrichment. Further medicinal chemistry is underway in the hope of optimizing the molecule to achieve nanomolar binding. --K.D.
This article appeared in Bio-IT World Magazine.
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Chennai Super Kings v Warriors Final, Highlights, Score: Chennai ease to Champions League T20 win
Chennai beat Warriors in the final of the Champions League T20 by eight wickets to lift the trophy. You can watch the Chennai v Warriors Champions League T20 final highlights on Star Cricket on Monday. You can also watch the Chennai v Warriors Champions League T20 final highlights on the official ESPNStar website.
Chennai v Warriors Score, Highlights
The Warriors won the toss and decided to bat first as was expected from the team winning the toss. And much like it has happened throughout the tournament, the Warriors were off to a flying start thanks to their captain Davy Jacobs – 39 runs were added in four overs.
However, Ashwell Prince scored only four of those and was cleaned up by a Doug Bollinger yorker to peg the Warriors back a little. Colin Ingram joined his captain, but Jacobs was to last for only another nine balls before a fired up R Ashwin sent him back, lbw.
The dismissal of Jacobs seemed to have hit the team hard. The rest of them failed to get going against the Super Kings spinners, with none of the rest of the batsmen getting to more than 25.
Both the frontline spinners, Muthiah Muralitharan and Ashwin bowled their four overs so economically that it did not look like it was a T20 game one. The pair conceded 32 off their eight overs and scalped five wickets between them to restrict the hosts to 128/7 in the 20 overs.
The Super Kings begun well in reply, and given that the asking rate was always going to be under manageable proportions, they scored the runs with an ease. The opening pair of Murali Vijay and Michael Hussey added 103 runs for the first wicket; both scoring a half-century.
Vijay went up to score 51 and win the Golden Bat award for scoring the most number of runs in the tournament. Despite his and Suresh Raina's wicket, the Chennai Super Kings were never in danger of losing the game and they won with eight wickets and six balls to spare.
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