Flammable Gas & Smoke Sensor- It is suitable for detecting the H2, LPG, CH4, CO, Alcohol or Propane. MQ3 sensor can sense LPG, CO, Smoke etc. For MQ3 sensor if the concentration is high the resistance decrease, if the concentration is low the resistance increase.    D0 : Indicates the presence of combined gases D0 […]

Current Sensor

ACS712 is a hall effect-based linear current sensor that can measure both AC and DC current. Let’s look at the connection and steps to interface. For a unipolar supply voltage, it nominally remains at VCC⁄ 2. Thus, VCC = 5 V translates into V IOUT(Q) = 2.5 V. So for 0A the reference voltage is

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Atmel family has another type of Timer to watch the program flow. We can enable the timer and if error occurs it will restart the CPU. So much we are excited, for it is hard to succeed developing absolutely perfect and error free program. The watchdog cannot help us to better programs however it can

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A servomotor is a rotary actuator that allows for precise control of angular position, velocity and acceleration. Most modern servomotor are designed and supplied around a dedicated control module. So that servomotor doesn’t require a driver. A microcontroller PWM pin can be used directly to control the servomotor. From picture it is seen that the

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PWM stands for pulse wide modulation. In AVR family there are three types of waveform generating modes The relationship between output voltage and duty cycle is      A PWM signal is nothing but a square wave in which the tine period (Ton+Toff) remain the same but the duty cycle changes. Basically all PWM mode operate with

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Ultrasonic sensors use sound to determine the distance between the sensor and the closest object in its path. The sensor sends out a sound wave at a specific frequency. It then listens for that specific sound wave to bounce off of an object and come back. The sensor keeps track of the time between sending

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DHT11 digital temperature and humidity sensor is a composite Sensor contains a calibrated digital signal output of the temperature and humidity. The sensor includes a resistive sense of wet components and an NTC temperature measurement device and connected with a high-performance 8-bit microcontroller. RT: Typical application circuit recommended in the short cable length of 20m

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