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Detect the 2D position of a ball hitting a 6ft x 6ft wood target
Proposal with two variants of an X-Y grid.
The 6ft x 6ft (1.8 x 1.8m) target would be covered in an X - Y grid of conductive wires e.g. stainless steel, bronze, etc. The variant is the base of the ...
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Detect the 2D position of a ball hitting a 6ft x 6ft wood target
You can use any cheap video camera hooked up to a computer. Ideally, you will want to paint the 6' x 6' board black to have high-contrast (assuming a white baseball). Then, write a program to reduce ...
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Noisy or malfunctioning PIR HC-SR505 sensor
Hi guys I place a 1kohm resistor at the sr505 negative end which is connected to ground.. It solve the false positive problem! I've been troubleshooting it for 2days,I hope this tip helps.
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Detect the 2D position of a ball hitting a 6ft x 6ft wood target
So, depends on what resolution you need. You could simply wire up a bunch of momentary switches, and put them in a rectangular grid, behind wooden squares. (Mechanically, you'll add stops behind the ...
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Detect presence of a thin wire
One possible solution to detect the Nitinol wire passing through the gap is to use an inductive proximity sensor. These sensors work by generating a magnetic field around a coil, and detecting changes ...
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TC1046VNBTR: Temperature Sensor output has an oscillation
Remove the cap on the output or add an R between the cap and the sensor.
When you add C to an amplifier output you can make it oscillate.
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Would a Hall effect sensor be damaged by gross saturation?
I'm not aware of such a failure mechanism related to (coreless) Hall effect sensors, in and of themselves.
What comes to mind:
1. Fusing, as in, you've blown up the sensing element, or otherwise ...
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Would a Hall effect sensor be damaged by gross saturation?
Each sensor should have some "absolute maximum ratings" including maximum magnetic flux density (B). For example MLX91208 have absolute maximum +-3T. If you know distance of your sensor from ...
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Would a Hall effect sensor be damaged by gross saturation?
According to Allegro:
There is no upper limit to the magnetic field strength that may be
applied to a Hall-effect sensor.
That said, it's always possible that a rapidly changing magnetic field might ...
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Problem with an LM35DZ temperature sensor
The 52AB batch are fakes. If you test them with multimeter they are behaving like NPN transistors.
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Setting up a grid of IR sensors
You can put a microphone in each corner and triangulate the position based on the relative time delay from the bounce. In a silent room, where only the bounce is audible, simple comparator analog ...
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Latching relays for a water pump with two XKC-Y25 sensors
This type of control setup is a frequent request. It is less complicated than you think. And, the control circuit and the pump are completely isolated from each other and can have different power ...
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Latching relays for a water pump with two XKC-Y25 sensors
You need one relay, plus a NO (normally open) low sensor and a NC (normally closed) high sensor. If sensors only come in NO versions their "sense" can be inverted either electronically or ...
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Register address offset of a 16-bit register
Perhaps a more intuitive way to understand this is if you look at it as an array.
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Register address offset of a 16-bit register
No it reads right there, each address has a word of data that is 16 bits. It means the data is not addressable in 8-bit bytes.
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Is it better using NTC or a proper temperature sensor?
There's nothing wrong with an NTC thermistor, it's as 'proper' as anything. Silicon sensors maybe be better or worse than in some regards. As may RTDs or thermocouples or other more exotic sensors.
As ...
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Is it better using NTC or a proper temperature sensor?
There is no abolute "proper" or "better" solution in electronics, those notions exist only in relationship with your spec.
Quantify what you mean by "acceptable", then ...
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Is it better using NTC or a proper temperature sensor?
A NTC thermistor is actually a pretty good sensor if implemented well. I've done something similar to yours (keeping an eye to the temperature of a Li-Ion cell and adjusting charge current to avoid ...
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Is it better using NTC or a proper temperature sensor?
Would an NTC with voltage divider be ok or is it better to use a
sensor like the LM36?
Choose the device that meets your accuracy requirements (data sheet information), is easiest to implement, is a ...
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How to connect MPU-6050 gyroscope pins?
CLKIN is the external reference pin for a clock - it can be used to synchronize different devices to the same timing, if timing is critical. You can tie this to GND if you're only using the gyro.
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