PIC, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi: If you can work with these three types of systems, then you can connect with just about anything Microcontrollers (MCUs) can be very handy, but without the ability to ...

Ever since René Laennec made the first stethoscope out of a wooden tube, engineers have been designing devices to help doctors evaluate their patients. Like nearly everything else, medical devices are ...

Connecting an anlog sensor to a digital acquisition, data logging, or control system always requred a plethora of interface devices. Now, a single chip can perform all that's needed to connect the ...

When [tdw] wasn’t feeling well one day, his wife suggested that it might be due to poor air quality in their home. While an ordinary person could have simply opened a window after hearing such an idea ...

Interfacing sensors to measurement equipment, whether a microcontroller ADC input or a high-end data-acquisition system, can cause headaches, particularly when you must use an unusual or unfamiliar ...

Capacitive sensor technology has evolved markedly over recent years, underpinned by advancements in integrated circuit design and novel measurement approaches. These sensors function by detecting ...

The vast majority of electronic devices today use the sensors to detect some physical phenomenon in the world that surrounds us (like temperature, pressure, light intensity, etc). The sensors ...

If you have used bridge sensors for, say, pressure or strain measurements, you understand the difficulties of setting up these sensors so they deliver useful information. Most of these sensors are ...

The development of a cutting-edge graphene sensor has led to the creation of an interface that is able to accurately control a robot using thought alone. The development has positive implications not ...

UC San Diego has developed a system that uses analog sensors with a direct interface to RFID tags, making them passive sensor devices. The solution includes analog to digital conversion without ...