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How to search date wise in flash memory using microcontroller?

I am developing a data logger in which I am using 8 MB of flash memory to store the sensor data with date and time. I am using RF interface to transfer that data to PC. I am planning to have PC ...
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Communicating an Arduino with a Data logger

I need to communicate a Sharp Dust sensor to a Data logger for a weather station project. It was straight forward to communicate other sensors (wind, temperature) as they were ready calibrated from ...
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PIC Microchip interface with PC

I have been using USART for interfacing PICs to my PC for datalogging. The problem is that now serial ports are not very common and often you need a USB-Serial adapters which do not always work or ...
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Logging the output from a solar cell

I am trying to create a small low cost circuit that will allow me to log the output of a solar cell over the course of a month as a student project. Currently I have a 5V Silicon PV cell and am ...
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Embedded system-current draw logging

I have an embedded application that wakes up every 15 minutes and performs some specific function for a period of two minutes. I need to log the current consumption of this specific function on the ...
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Corrupted files generated by Arduino with SD library. How to avoid that?

I have a sketch that runs on an Arduino Ethernet (that comes with an SD card reader and, of course, an Ethernet interface). There is a unique place in this sketch where I write to a file on the SD ...
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Intersection Turning Movement counts

Civil Traffic Engineers have a perpetual data gathering problem. They need intersection turning movement counts to do their studies. This has historically been a manual task. Someone sits by the ...
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RTOS Datalogger example

I'm trying to develop a datalogger on a Cortex M0 (LPC11U14), and I was thinking of using a real-time OS like FreeRTOS, so that I can have one low-priority task that writes the data to SD, and ...
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Fast sensor readings

I am developing a data logger for use in high schools like ( http://www.pasco.com ). The main difference is that mine is primary supposed to be used with an iPad. I have a connection between a micro ...
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Low power micro-SD card storage

We are building a low-power data logger based upon the ATmega328P, in order to make use of the Arduino boot loader and IDE, etc. Ideally power consumption should be less than 0.3mA @ 3.3V to get ...
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Sync video with data

When I have a datalogger and I want to sync a video-file to the recording, what would be an easy method? The logger and the camera both have an internal clock, but they may not be set exactly to the ...
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What's a good sensor for measuring high voltages

I want to do datalogging on solar strings in the 600V range +-100V. Would prefer accuracy close to 1%.
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How to monitor / log / record / store voltage reading across various connectors of a PC power supply unit ( PSU )

I'm searching for a way to detect over-/undervoltages across the PSU connectors so that i can have a better chance of finding causes for HW failures/errors . Best way i could think of was logging the ...
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Monitoring software for embedded application

I'm looking for a Windows application to collect data to a host PC from an embedded application (PIC microcontroller). The communication between host and embedded application is via Ethernet. It ...
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How to sync sensor data

Suppose I have multiple dataloggers receiving sensor data, how can I sync those signals afterwards? The most obvious way would be adding timestamps to the data, but they have independant clocks, so I ...
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Can USB host controllers be used for device identification?

Does any USB host device provides any unique IDs which are available from USB controller to device? At software side, I can get the vendor ID (along with other hardware identification data such as ...
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Can I log current using a voltage input and V=IR

I have a sensor which produces a current proportional to the variable it is sensing. My data logger only accepts input as a varying voltage, which it then encodes in 8 bits (scaled linearly to volts). ...
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Temperature logging setup for refrigerator

I've been having some issues with my refrigerator lately, and so I've been imagining some kind of temperature logging system. I want it to log the temperature every 5(?) seconds, door open/close ...
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Hackable exercise bicycle computer?

This might sound a bit weird, but does anybody here know of a exercise bicycle that is hackable? What I would like to do is to connect it to a PC (don't care how, usb, parallel port, serial...) to ...
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Logomatic v2 serial SD Datalogger issues

Hi i bought this data logger a few weeks ago, http://www.littlebirdelectronics.com/products/Logomatic-v2-Serial-SD-Datalogger.html I've been having some trouble with it. I read the data sheet and ...
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AVR Stick Data Logger Usage

Has anyone used this data logger (or similar) with v-usb to collect data? http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9147 If so, what is the maximum times per second voltage data ...