Sensor Circuits
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This is a very simple circuit to interface a current loop sensor to an input which is designed for a voltage, such as that from a standard potentiometer. This page is technical so that interested persons can build the circuit themselves, but 4QD can also.... -
These controllers have an inhibit input and the effect of shorting this down to ground is to turn down the internal demand speed. So with the battery current limiter fitted, the internal demand speed can only ramp up to a value which engages the limit. Some.... -
This simple circuit from the May 1996 Think Tank column of Popular Electronics activates a relay when it senses a composite video signal. This allows you to use the tuner built into your VCR to turn on and off older TVs that are not equipped with a remote..... -
The following circuit can be used to detect those annoying piezo whistles that one can get from Radio Shack. For the Trinity Home Fire Fighting Contest, additional points accrue when the robot is started by a sound similar to a fire alarm. The actual.... -
It's basically a photovore with a couple tactile sensors. It's rather complex but can give neat behaviors with modifications to the circuit. At this point I don't have any plans to give more information on this circuit so your on your own. C1 and C2 values.... -
The cooling is not only a PC using a small fan with an electronic commutator [1]. A special feature of these fans is that their removal is less dependent on the load. Indicators monitoring the DC component of current may therefore be very reliable..... -
Heat sensor circuit can be used to control any device using heat sensor. In this circuit a thermistor and a resistance is connected in series. This arrangement makes a potential divider circuit. Here the thermistor is Negative Temperature Coefficient type..... -
My final project, cycling rollers, requires a method of sensing the rotational speed of one of the rollers. Typically speed sensors on cycles work by detecting the passing of a magnet attached to a spoke on one of the wheels using a Hall Effect sensor or a.... -
The control module monitors the fuel tank pressure (FTP) sensor signal in order to detect vacuum decay and excess vacuum during the enhanced evaporative emission (EVAP) diagnostic. The Fuel Tank Pressure Sensor responds to changes in the fuel tank pressure.... -
This circuit was designed as an aid in parking the car near the garage wall when backing up. LED D7 illuminates when bumper-wall distance is about 20 cm. , D7+D6 illuminate at about 10 cm. and D7+D6+D5 at about 6 cm. In this manner you are alerted when.... -
The Resistive Sensor Head (A2053) is a Long-Wire Data Acquisition ( LWDAQ ) Device that measures the resistance of up to eleven resistive sensors. These sensors could be 1000- © RTDs (resistance-temperature devices), 100- © RTDs, 120- © strain guages, or any.... -
Scopeclock is an easy to use hardware to make your X-Y capable analog oscilloscope more useful. Using this simple to use hardware you can convert your analog oscilloscop.. -
ArduinoISP Bootloader/Programmer Combination Shield (not shown) & Arduino with USB to serial chip (e. g. Arduino Uno ) to upload the bootloader and sketches to DIYduino. You can also use a USBtoSerial programmer for uploading a sketch and work around the.... -
Have you ever wanted to make a line following robot but the infrared sensors were too expensive for you Do you want to upgrade the robot in my other instructable Also, if you`re from the UK and have a maplin store near you, you`ll be able to get some IR.... -
This was my very first arduino project. Its great for beginners. Fade the color or the lights my moving your hands near it. It fades from a pretty purple blue to a firey red-orange. Its was SUPER easy to build, not to hard to write the code, and its really.... -
Water is a precious resource in many parts of the world, and many people rely on water tanks to supplement their water supply by storing collected rainwater or water pumped from a well or bore. But how do you measure how full a tank is Tanks are constructed.... -
The circuit uses the very popular Sharp IR module (Vishay module can also be used). The pin nos. shown in the circuit are for the Sharp & VIshay modules. For other modules please refer to their respective datasheets. The receiver consists of a 555 timer IC.... -
To apperceive whether it is freezing you alone charge to admeasurement the temperature. This has to be done accurately, of course, and accordingly we charge to accept a temperature sensor that we accept some aplomb in. The best has afresh been fabricated for.... -
This is a low cost way of measuring temperature and humidity with a computer interface and is intended to be an entry level project for high school students on a tight budget. .. -
Following last year`s rediscovery of radio controlled flight, I`ve recently become enamored with the hacking/mod potential of the downright bargain priced 9-channel FlySky FS-TH9X transmitter (also sold as Turnigy/Eurgle etc). The original 2. 4GHz RF module.... -
This project implements a network connected water level sensor, measuring the level in the sump pit of my house. It`s connected to the home network and reports the water level by broadcasting UDP packets so that any computer can receive it and take action,.... -
For Conductive Liquids: These may simply consist of Two Parallel Metal Plates. If the Container is Metal, that could act as one of the plates. NOTE: A Suitable metal is required for Acid or Alkaline Solutions. The Emitter of Q1 is the circuits "Voltage.... -
This is a one direction motion sensor circuit. This motion sensor circuit is used to detects an object passing in one direction, ignoring an object that going to opposite way. This circuit uses two sensors to identify the movement only in one direction. The.... -
This is a simple Electronic thermometer circuit. This is a inexpensive circuit because probe or sensor that is used in this circuit is 2N2222 silicon ... -
There are some digital and analog that can be used for compensating a PT100 RTD nonlinearity. We can implemented the digital linearization by implementing the... -
Current loop interface has been widely used in industrial environment because it`s robustness. Noise resistance and fail detection capability? made it suitable... -
Laser-receiver circuits must bias their avalanche photo diodes (APD) to achieve optimal gain. Unfortunately, an APD""s gain depends on the operating temperature. The circuit controls the operating voltage of an APD over a large temperature range to maintain.... -
Easy Pulse: A DIY photoplethysmographic sensor for measuring heart rate. Part 1 - Theory and Schemat
When I first built the Heart rate measurement through fingertip project, the infrared LED and photodiode used for finger photoplethysmography were actually from salvaged parts, and therefore, I could not provide specifications for them in the article. As a.... -
To obtain an accurate pressure value, we must remove the offset errors. There are? many basic circuit designs that is used to remove the offset errors. This...
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This project fits more for custom made battery casing that can have more space to hide things inside. This switch with few alterations can be used for any other project as well but is designed based on e-bike needs! This project use a clever functionality of.... -
The circuit described here uses ultrasonic oscillations and operates based on the propagation velocity of these oscillations in the air. Thus, we can easily determine the distance of two points if the time within which the wave travels this distance is.... -
Sometimes the precious metals are hidden too deep and are not detected except with complicated devices. In many cases, however, small pieces of precious metal buried near the surface can be detected by relatively simple means. Everyone is very attractive to.... -
Many times for various reasons we forget or can not water the plants that we have in our homes. And many humidity sensors units just notify us with a beeping sound or with a flashing light, that the pot needs watering. But what if we are away from home? This.... -
The principle behind a metal detector is really very simple. Proof of this is the circuit that follows, in which it proves that the construction of a metal detector can be done in the minute, with few components that we find very easily everywhere. With the.... -
The sub-harmonic bass generator is a sound producing unit for guitars. The sound it produces looks very much like that of the bass guitar. The octave generator is sometimes quite unusual since it does not produce any of the usual ways of coloring the sound,.... -
In the past the sounding (sea bottom measurement) was done with the "bullet", that is, with a heavy lead object that the seamen plucked into the sea hung from a calibrated rope. As soon as the "bullet" reached the bottom, the depth appeared directly from the.... -
This Amplifier was designed to have the following specifications: Distortion less than 0.1% at full power of 100W even at 20KHz. Power has to be attributed to an extended bandwidth. The output transistors must be protected against short circuits. The power.... -
A series of LEDs serve to alert the gardener when plants need water. Using two conventional digital integrated LEDs and a series of LEDs, we make a very useful device for gardening. The device detects the amount of water in the pot and alerts the grower.....
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