More about Measurement (206)

1-07-2003 | Elektor is proud to present a Texas Instruments MSC1210 based microcontroller board complete with its first application: a versatile, high-e...

1-07-2002 | In the form of the GP2D02, Sharp have produced a sensor which, with the aid of a microcontroller, can provide reasonably accurate measuremen...

1-04-2002 | Contactless distance measurement is becoming more and more important in analysing vibration, alignment, position or bending. This article ex...

1-03-2002 | The light barrier system described in this article allows accurate measurement of the absolute speed of model cars, planes and other moving...

1-07-2001 | It frequently happens that you have an application in which you want to measure the temperature of a circuit or the outside world. This can...

1-03-2001 | In previous articles in this series we have described an A/D converter based on a counter. A ‘real’ A/D converter, however, converts a volta...

1-02-2001 | In the previous instalment we measured capacitances and resistances. You may have wondered if this was all worth the effort, when accurate a...

1-01-2001 | So far in this series we have used the PC only with digital signals: switching, monitoring and counting. Now we turn to the analogue domain:...

1-12-2000 | This circuit is eminently suitable for adding bipolar input capability to the unipolar A/D converter of a microprocessor circuit (in a data...

1-11-2000 | It is often desirable to know how hot a part is. The usual method is to use a thermometer to measure the temperature, but this may not alway...