Questions tagged [distance]
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Sensor for tank fluid measurement
What kind of low cost sensor can be used for a tank fluid level measurement up to about 1m distance, with accuracy of about 5%. Interface to controller can be anything reasonable (SPI, I2C, digital, ...
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Arduino: convert analogRead from photodiode in a distance in cm or mm?
I am doing a very simple project on Arduino consisting of an IR LED and a photodiode that measure the distance from an obstacle. I am using an Arduino Nano BLE that has a 12-bit ADC converter.
I am ...
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Height or antenna gain for a ship mast cell antenna
I'm optimizing my ship's WAN using cellular modems and looking to improve distance connectivity over speed in an either or option challenge.
Our ship's mast has two cell antennas which are currently ...
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What is wrong with this PIC16F877A HCSR04 example?
I am working on distance sensor with PIC16F877A.
I am using MPLAB IDE AND XC8 compiler.
My goal is to gradually turn on the right leds at certain distance levels.
but the leds are blinking unstable. ...
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How to calculate the power consumption of an ultrasonic distance sensor?
I’m working on a project that will be using an ultrasonic distance sensor continuously throughout the day. I want to figure out what the theoretical power consumption would be over a number of hours ...
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Are there any laser sensors that have a high accuracy at 200-400 mm with low laser angle? [closed]
I'm looking for a simple laser sensor that has these properies.
Range and accuracy at different reflectance
I recently wrote an unscented Kalman filter in C code and tested it with a VL6180x laser ...
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Arduino not picking up analog reading 20 meter away from my pressure sensor
I’m new here. I just hooked up my 3-pin (5V, GND, Analog Out) XGZP6847020KPG pressure sensor right on my Arduino pro mini (at first it was not working, then I added a 10 kOhm resistor in parallel with ...
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HY-SRF05 max distance in 3.3v setup
I bought two HY-SRF05 ultrasonic distance sensors and connected them to BeagleBone Black (one at a time). They are powered with 5V line, so I connected the echo line through resistor divider (3x1kohm) ...
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Best Sensor(s) to Detect Distance to Person Within Range of At Least Several Feet, 360 Degrees [closed]
I am new to electrical engineering, with most of my experience being in programming, so this is an exploratory question in order to determine how feasible it is to do what I want to do.
I am looking ...
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How to determine radiation at a certain distance from a sunlamp
I have a sunlamp, with four UV bulbs, emitting UVA and UVB. These are parallel-mounted tube bulbs and the total area of the light emitting area is 20 cm × 25 cm = 0.05 m2. Each bulb is 15 W and so ...
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How good are Time-Of-Fligt (light) sensors for measuring small objects?
I found this sensor VCNL4040 and it has the emitter angle and the sensor angle.
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How good is a Time-Of-Flight (light) sensor to measure small objects that are 100mm away and about 20x20mm in ...
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How wide is IR-led light from VCNL4040?
I have an issue to solve. I'm going to measure an object that looks like this.
My question is if the sensor VCNL4040 have a very wide spread light or very "laser-like" light that ...
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Laptop LCD video cable extension
How long that cable:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32885352799.html
can be extended without losing image quality if I cut it in the middle and add wire?
Which wire will fit and what kind is the ...
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Can creepage distance be separated into more sections?
Can I count that the creepage distance of two separate circuits can be divided into two sections, while the inner conductive pad/track is isolated/floating?
Similarly, can I use two resistors (200V ...
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Better displacement finder? Lasers/Inertial Sensors
I've seen laser rpm measurement devices. But can it be used the find displacement/distance moved for object when attached to it?
I know taking rpm of wheel and multiplying by circumference would give ...
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Can eddy current sensors measure through a thin metallic sheet?
I would like to know if it is theoretically and technically possible to measure/detect a metallic object through a thin metal sheet using eddy current sensor. For example copper has a skin depth of ...
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How can I accurately find the distance between two drones over moderate distances?
I am currently taking part in a project in which I am building drones using Arduinos and Raspberry Pis, and I need to be able to measure the distance between the drones. After some research, I ...
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Any modules which can measure the distance between two modules even through obstacles?
This is for a social distance enforcing project for school. I want to know the distance between Module 1 and Module 2, where each module is worn by a person. Usually ultrasound would be used, but I ...
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Narrowing the beam of an ultrasonic sensor
I need to measure the distance to a solid or liquid in a round tank about 2 feet wide and 5 feet deep using a sensor that can output PWM and run at 3.3 or 5 volts.
After testing, I've found that the ...
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Measure distance to object with angular precision - invisible for camera
I want to build myself an arduino based follow-focus. There is one mode intended for using a joystick for manual control of focus and zoom. This code already works a treat.
Now I want to add a ...
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Linearization of IR sensor GP2Y0A21YK
How do I linearize the graph analog output voltage against distance for IR sensor [GP2Y0A21YK][1]?
This is the non- linear graph, I’m not sure how to make it linear?
[1]: https://media.digikey.com/...
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Digital 5V signal through a long copper cable with EMI noise
I'm designing a zigbee switch with additional capabilities in order to give it some flexibility. The main idea is to put this design in the interconection boxes that are in my walls.
So, this PCB ...
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capacitance vs impedance measurement
I've been trying to design precise distance measurements similar to the digital caliper or dial micrometer for my CNC project by capacitance sensing between prob and base metal. I can connect base ...
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SMA connectors minimum distance on PCB
I am designing a board, which will have several SMA connectors.
I am mainly concerned about the minimum distance between SMA connectors on the board, since we need also account for the size of the ...
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1 kHz clock over long wire
I will have a wire that will run up to 1000 m with many nodes connected to it. The wire will run along a CAN bus and a ground wire and must transport a 1 kHz square wave 50% duty-cycle clock signal to ...
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Perfboard soldering distance [duplicate]
I have a problem with perfboard, every time I made a circuit which works flawlessly in breadboard, doesn't work on perfboard. Is it because of soldering distance or am I doing something wrong?
All ...
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How do lasers measure short distances (<1cm) when electronics are too slow for time-of-flight to work?
I was wondering how LIDAR sensors are able to measure distances less than 2mm. I don't see how they can possibly do that.
The speed of light is 300,000,000 m/s, so the round-trip time should be ...
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JSN SR04 not giving correct readings when connected to ESP32?
When I connect a JSNSR04 to ESP32 and power it with USB of my computer, I am able to get correct readings.
But when I power it with buckconverter for short distances ( <150) JSN gives correct ...
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Ultrasonic module Water proof vs non-water proof types
Ranging SR04 Ultrasonic modules are available as water proof and non-water types.
In the water proof types SR04 modules there is only 1 sensor while in the non-water proof types SR04 there are 2 ...
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Minimum distance between two connectors in a high voltage PCB design
My application will have low current (mA) but high voltage lines. High voltage will arriving from external source using banana jacks on the case.
I am looking for an example in which someone uses ...
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Extremely low data rate transmission over long distance for attinys
For a lighting project I need to be able to trigger 20 units every couple of seconds independently which are daisy chained with 1-2 m space between each of them like so:
Control station ====== Unit 1 ...
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Transmission distance rs485 vs ethernet
I have a question,
why is rs485 limited to less than 100 meters at 10mpbs ( mbaud )
and is 100Base-TX ethernet applicable on 100 meters with 100 mbps bitrate
i know that rs485 normally use a sort ...
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How does an ultrasonic distance sensor work?
How does an ultrasonic distance sensor work?
My thoughts:
A microcontroller (Arduino nano) sends a signal to an amplifier that makes it into a 40kHz pulse, which then goes to the transmitter which ...
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How to decrease nrf24l01 transceiver range?
I've just got my Nrf24l01 but then I found out that the working signal range for the module is 100m and above. Our real intention for the module is to let the nrf24l01(Receiver) out of range for about ...
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Sensors to detect vehicle height from the side
I am looking for a way to determine vehicle height measured from the side. The application is for a drive-through ATM, the sensors being mounted inside the ATM enclosure.
Some ATMs have a roof as ...
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Looking for a very precise tx/rx circuit module to calculate distance [closed]
Thanks for helping. I'm looking for a system that will help me find exact distance between a transmitter and receiver at a frequency of milli seconds, in distance accuracy of milli meters.
I want to ...
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Accurate localization of a remote vehicle
I've been working on a project where I'm supposed to design a vehicle that carries antennas to perform SAR (Synthetic-aperture radar) imaging. This vehicle has 3 wheels which 2 of them steered by a DC ...
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Setting Up Long Distance Unidirectional Wifi Antenna
A neighbor has graciously offered us temporary access to their wireless for basic internet access, but we are about 100 meters apart. I have a wireless NIC, but I wanted suggestions as to the setup.
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Electronic detector to measure of distance? [closed]
I am not well known about electronic and it is my first question here, beforehand sorry for not qualified question. Let me try to explain what I am looking for:
Is there chip or any another ...
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optical path resonance distance measurement device, super useful for open source hardware if it would work [closed]
My head just tends to be full of open hardware and open manufacturing stuff, and one idea I have had for years and always wanted to try, but never could for want of access to an electronics lab, is a ...
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Cleaning up GND/PWR-plane air wire errors in EAGLE + bonus questions
So I've just finished up my first complete PCB board. The layout is 4-layer based, set up as ((1*2)*(15*16)) ---not sure if it should be ((1+2)*(15+16)) or ((1*2)+(15*16)) instead, please advise--- ...
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How to measure tilt on a dynamic device?
I'm trying to instrument a vehicle component. I want to measure a component's angle during a drive cycle. The component has a single degree of freedom, it has a fixed axis. I'm trying to figure out ...
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Measure 2d positions and tangents [closed]
I would like to measure two points and tangents of a curve and transfer that information to a computer. Here is a picture of what I would like to measure:
Points (x1,y1), (x2,y2)
Tangents T1, T2 (or ...
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Long distance button
I have always had problems with my wireless doorbell solution. Since my driveway is around 50m (160ft) the signal is never quite strong enough to trigger the bell all the times.
So I was thinking ...
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Method for Sending Multiple (16) Channels of Duty Cycle Modulated Signal over Medium-Long Distance
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What is the best method or industry standard solution for transmitting multiple channels (13 signal, 3 ground) of duty cycled modulated signals up to 25 feet. The data will be transmitted by ...
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calculating maximum transmission distance of radio module based on dbm and open air
I own several HM-TRP TTL FSK radio modules, and every time I turn one on, it reports it as being version 2.
Anyways I did read the manual and it has a setting for transmitter power as follows:
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Wireless radio reception power vs distance
I found a PDF online that says:
The diagram shows that one unit of power is required to achieve a given data rate over one unit of distance. But to maintain the same data rate over x the distance, ...
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SRF05 | PIC16F18875
I´m doing a project for my electronics class. I´m trying to calculate a distance using a SRF- 05 Ultrasonic Sensor; but the result in the display is 0 .
I´m using a Curiosity HPC Development Board w/ ...
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transmitting 3.3v/5v signal over a 2 meters cable
Sorry to send homologous question.
I have looked through this site, but for my limitation on electric knowledge, I have to ask still.
I'm trying to build a DIY project based on arduino and other ...
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Measure phase difference with less than a full wave?
I am interested in aircraft altitude measurement during approach. Off the shelf sonar doesn't provide enough distance, and inexpensive radio sensors don't provide a short enough distance. I have seen ...
