“Dear cousin, I lost my keys in the middle of the meadows, would you please make a metal detector for me ? Urgent !“ This is really how this project started ! More or less, as I have in mind the design of an Earth’s Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer which features magnetic fields sensors on […]
Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Let’s go a few steps further in the direction of a fully featured arbitrary wave generator ! The early posts describe how to generate clean waves at various frequencies. In this post, I will explain how to offset the signal and how to attenuate it. Setting negative offsets requires… negative voltage ! Which Arduino platforms do […]
Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 A recent project lead me to excavate a quite old DDS design which may be of some interest for you. Instead of using a ladder of resistors, this design features a simple, cheap and yet powerful digital to analog converter. I will later explain why I choose this particular Microchip circuit but for […]
Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 The PLD features a multipurpose connector mainly dedicated to plugging sensors. This video shows how easy it is to configure a PLD an run an application for monitoring temperatures. Back us on Kikstarter … Do you want to know more about HL2, HL2 Panorama and HL2 PLD ? Check this video Thanks for watching
Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 HL2 PLD may be used for safety applications too. In this configuration, the PLD is able to detect movements up to 7 m away within and almost 90° view angle. It features a PIR (Passive Infra Red) sensor from Panasonic. This sensors is available in different sizes depending on the required range; the enclosures […]
Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Using the HL2 PLD (Place and Leave Device) is easy and usefull. We ran the earliest tests on… soil moisture. The reason why we chose this one is that I have always liked to have a green plant in my office and this one might last longer than the others. Because it is fitted […]
Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Dear arduinoos followers, You may wonder why the production line of arduinoos went to a stall along the last weeks… Holidays ? Well it sounds reasonable and logical, however except for a few days of leave here and there (actually in Lyon, Annecy, Saint Martin des Baleines and Val-Andre) during summer time this is not […]
Part 1, 2 In the previous version, the command parser is using one single alpha character as an opcode while the argument is computed on the fly using simple arithmetic. In this version, the opcode is extended to (almost) any number of characters and the argument is stored in a vector which is then converted […]
Part 1, 2 Many applications require some interaction with the user. And one of the most basic manner to interact with an application is to use the serial communication port. Using Serial.print command is probably one the earliest command we all used to debug applications. The proposed command parser uses Serial.available() and Serial.read() functions and […]
Could DSP produce some sort of modern art on some occasion ? Do you want to reproduce that ? Well, here is the recipe … Get a function generator and set the signal pattern to ramp, sweep frequencies from 80 to 90 Hz with 0.1 Hz steps every second. Connect the output to PlainDSP* and starting […]