Category: Test/Measurements

Measure the DC power consumption of your devices on the cloud @ adafruit.com Controlling the electrical consumption in your home is one of the most important thing you can do, both because of environmental concerns & to reduce the electricity bill at the end of the month. There...

This video describes and demonstrates the 4-wire resistance measurement (Kelvin connection) - what it is, and when & why it is used for making low valued resistance measurements. 4 Wire Resistance Measurement - Kelvin connection -...

"Kai" is in the process of building a Geiger counter based on BPW34 photodiode and explains his first step for the sensor circuit. The common approach to protect the photodiodes from light is to use one layer of tin foil and connect it to ground. This should also protect the...

This is a wireless digital scale using ATTiny85 microcontroller and HM-10 Bluetooth low energy transmitter/receiver: This scale is wireless. It may be useful where you can't operate a normal scale, due to the weather outside, or if you don't want to scare birds or other creatures...

Michael Dunn@ edn.com discuss about current sense on the high side of power source. At their heart, the majority of DC current sense circuits start with a resistance in a supply line (though magnetic field sensing is a good alternative, especially in higher-current scenarios). One...

Dilshan Jayakody build a simple crystal tester based on Colpitts oscillator. He writes: This is simple Colpitts oscillator to test commonly available passive crystals which range between 2MHz to 27MHz. This unit must connect to an oscilloscope and/or frequency counter to get the...

This video gives you the basics of how to calculate and use a simple resistive current shunt with an analog panel meter to change the current that is needed for a full scale deflection. The notes page for this video can be found here. Using a Current Shunt with a Panel Meter /...

Dilshan Jayakody documented his USB port base NPN transistor curve tracer project: Curve tracer is an electronic test instrument to analyze the characteristics of transistors and other discrete semiconductors. In this post we construct USB base curve tracer to analyze properties of...