Controlling an inverted pendulum using a Microchip microcontroller was possible at a University in Switzerland. The FLEX Base Board (hosting a Microchip dsPIC - see the Datasheet) and the FLEX Multibus Board with a CAN module were used for swinging-up and maintaining the inverted equilibrium. The Source code was entirely generated using Scilab/Scicos , an automatic code generator for control systems.

A ball control on a touch screen (using a Microchip microcontroller) was realized in a laboratory in Italy. A steel ball was kept at the center of a metallic plate using FLEX board at the Retis lab of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. You just need a steel ball, a FLEX board (an embedded board which can be used by all the developers who want to fully exploit the potential of the latest Microchip micro-controllers: the dsPIC DSC family - see the Datasheet), two servomotors and a touch screen.

Wireless communication is becoming more and more pervasive, that's why new development tools for wireless applications are welcome. The goal of this demo is to provide basic tools to develop more complex wireless applications, using the Erika kernel in conjunction with the FLEX Board [with a microcontroller from Microchip Datasheet]

At the Retis laboratory of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, a moving ball was visually tracked using FLEX board with a CMOS camera.
Movements of a freely rolling ball was visually tracked, within the visual envelope of the CMOS camera, using FLEX board . The CMOS Camera is capable of returning JPEG images to the connected FLEX board hosting a Microchip dsPIC. The Flex Board also controls two servomotors which are used to articulate the camera, thereby maintaining the focus on the rolling ball.

FLEX is born as a development board where to easily develop and test real-time applications for the Microchip microcontrollers (Datasheet 2.0). Scilab/Scicos is a code generator for the FLEX Board.
Let's see how to control a DC Motor Servo using FLEX with Scilab/Scicos.

This demo shows how to set up a USB connection between the PC and the FLEX board. The aim is to control the dsPIC LED and the PIC18 LED system from the host PC. The dsPIC LED is controlled by the SPI communication with the PIC18.
The application is divided into three parts:

This software implements a TCP/IP stack demo usable with FLEX boards. It enables communications with the board over an ethernet cable, using a variety of protocols. Here are some of the protocols included in the demo: DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), FTP (File Transfer Protocol), HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), Secure NTP (Network Time Protocol), Telnet.
The demo was produced adapting the Microchip Technology Inc. TCP/IP Stack (version 4.18) and the related application notes.
This is the list of hardware components needed to use the demo:

This demo demonstrates a procedure for image acquisition from a camera equipped with serial interface on CMOS levels using FLEX.
FLEX is a platform board for embedded modular systems that exploits the potential of Microchip family’s dsPIC DSC microcontroller. It is an ideal board for developing real-time applications because the onboard dsPIC33FJ256MC710 microcontroller supports advanced real-time kernel, such as the Evidence Srl’s Erika Enterprise.

FLEX is an embedded board which can be used by all the developers who want to fully exploit the potential of the latest Microchip micro-controllers: the dsPIC DSC family.
FLEX is born as a development board where to easily develop and test real-time applications for the Microchip dsPIC DSC micro-controller.