Aug-9th-2010
Accelerometers are recently developed solid state electronics devices that
makes it very easy to measure acceleration. They are completely modular and
very tiny devices which gives voltage proportional to acceleration. These type
are called analog accelerometers as their output is voltage. Some other gives
a PWM output [...]
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Jul-25th-2010
The are many cool sensors available now a days, ranging from IR distance sensor
modules, accelerometers, humidity sensors, temperature
sensors and many many more(gas sensors, alcohol sensor, motion sensors,
touch screens). Many of these are analog in nature. That means they give a voltage
output that varies [...]
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Jul-21st-2010
Many electrical signals around us are Analog in nature. That means a quantity
varies directly with some other quantity. The first quantity is mostly voltage
while that second quantity can be anything like temperature, pressure, light,
force or acceleration. For example in LM35
temperature sensor the output [...]
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Sep-18th-2008
Most of the physical quantities around us are continuous. By continuous we mean that the quantity can take any value between two extreme. For example the atmospheric temperature can take any value (within certain range). If an electrical quantity is made to vary directly in proportion to this value (temperature etc)
then what we have is [...]
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Jul-29th-2008
Each AVR MCU has several internal peripherals that give powerful abilities to
your projects. For example internal ADC can be used to convert analog value (say
voltage output of some sensor) to a digital value that you can use. And a USART(Universal
Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) can be used to connect your MCU
with PC. [...]
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