In this project, we will go over how to connect an analog volt panel meter to an Arduino so that it can measure and give us a readout of light striking the circuit. In this way, the circuit will function as a light meter. When there is a lot of light shining on the circuit,
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Tweet-a-watt – How to make a twittering power meter… This project documents my adventures in learning how to wire up my home for wireless power monitoring. I live in a rented apartment so I don’t have hacking-access to a meter or breaker panel. Since I’m still very interested in measuring my power usage on a
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All about power today.. For a while now, I’ve been looking around for a mains (220-240VAC) power monitoring circuit that I might be able to interface with an Arduino. There is of course the OpenEnergyMonitor solution, but they seem to use a transformer to isolate and measure the mains voltage. The transformer doesn’t exactly couple to the
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Over ten years ago, I put up a web page with detailed instructions on building a simple electric motor based on one from the Beakman’s World TV show. I called it the “Beakman’s Electric Motor” page and over the years it has had hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of hits. Realizing that just building a motor,
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The Arduino reads temperature from a MCP9700 temperature sensor IC and displays the temperature in the Arduino IDE serial monitor window. Also see the Arduino LCD thermometer tutorial (tutorial 14). Prerequisites Complete Tutorial 9: Using the Arduino Serial Port before attempting this tutorial. Components Besides an Arduino Uno board, USB cable, wire links and a breadboard, you will need:
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Why an Arduino waveform logger is a limited sampling tool, not a protected oscilloscope: conversion timing, sequential channels, aliasing and scope limits.
A shared-ground four-channel DC voltmeter reference: sequential ADC sampling, per-channel divider calibration, source impedance and honest accuracy limits.
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This instructable is a step-by-step assembly guide for the educational colorimeter kit we launched in April 2012 on Kickstarter. Assembly takes from 20-40 minutes. Once assembled the colorimeter can be used in a wide variety of science experiments to measure the absorbance and concentration of a colored solution. The colorimeter kit is an open source
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Major corrections and additions made 9/9/2014 For my off-grid Ham Radio and Solar projects, I needed a way to measure volts, amps, watts, amp hours and watt hours. There’s a couple of commercial products that can do this, but not with the flexibility I wanted. I designed a Arduino micro-controller based solution that is very
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This Arduino project is a simple light meter using a photo-transistor. An LDR would be more appropriate but the photo-transistor is what I has spare at the time. On the other hand the photo-transistor is sensitive to infrared, so its handy for testing remote controls. The project consists of 10 red LEDs driven by 10
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