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Accelerometers Introduction Accelerometers are used in many portable devices like smart phones, to detect if the device is held vertically or horizontally, in fi...

Programming the Robot Please first have a look at RobotKit This part written by the students: The project can be subdivided into * DC motor control ...

The ADS1115 16 bit ADC The ADS1115 from Texas Instruments is a high precision I2C controlled Delta Sigma ADC. In addition to the ADC itself which provides 2 diffe...

Name display It is always nice to have a demo where the visitor can become active himself. For this reason we prepared a demo in which the visitor will type his n...

A meteorological station. We have 2 PCBs in our sensor collection for use in a meteorological station: The BMP180 atmospheric pressure sensor, which can also ...

Stepping Motor The Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins can also be used to generate the signals needed for the different phases of a stepping motors. Driving a stepping moto...

The AT commands atMode: The serial line is connected to /dev/ttyUSB0you may connect to another port with ./atMode portname, e.g./dev/ttyUSB1Please enter AT comman...

Traffic light simulator The Raspberry Pi (see Raspberry Pi Description ) is the embedded system we use for our course. It can connect to the outside world thro...

Voltmeter The 2 line LCD display controlled by a HD44780 LCD controller can be used for a number of small projects. Here we use it to display the voltage drop...

Installing Additional Software Quite a bit of additional software on top of the basic Ubuntu system will be needed. First I install using apt get install: * em...

An additional Lecture on C Programming Creating a Signal GeneratorUli RaichCourse on Embedded SystemsUCC semester end 2017 C is too abstract? I was told that yo...

Analogue sensors All analogue boards are based on the same principle and actually use the same PCB. The only difference is the sensor itself, which is placed betw...

Analogue to Digital Conversion (ADC) Goal: Apart from the digital to analogue converter where we created analog signal levels from digital values, we have only h...

Audio Devices The kit contains 4 audio devices: * 2 microphones with different size and sensitivity * an active and a passive buzzer The microphones are mou...

The BMP180 Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure Sensor The BMP180 is a sensor that measures temperature to 0.1 \xB0C precision and barometric (atmospheric air) pr...

How the Bluetooth Communication work in Arduino. Basically the control of robot becomes easy through a Bluetooth module. Which means that the Bluetooth module and...

Exercises 3: Compilation Tools: Editor, Compiler, Linker, Debugger, Make Goal: This exercise session should get you acquainted with the tools we will use for edi...

Compiling Master Branch Of OpenHantek Getting abreast with Qt has put us through a lot of thinking this few days and truly it has not been easy. Concerning compil...

Controlling the DC motors The motors cannot be driven by the Arduino PWM outputs directly but they must pass through a motor driver boosting the signal power In o...

Exercise List Here is a list of exercises to be solved during the course on emdedded systems. First we play on the Linux system installed on the PC, then we write...

DC Motor NOTES Servo motors can be connected directly to an arduino .The servo motor is used because it is built in with a motor ,a feedback circuit and a motor ...

Report on the first 6 weeks of the DC motor project Week 1 Installing the ubuntu 16.04 OS as dual boot alongside windows 10 Installing the Arduino software on th...

I2C Real Time Clock and serial EEPROM While our Raspberry Pi is usually connected to the network from which it can get date and time, other micro controllers (the...

Digital Temperature Measurement with the DS18B20 Goal: The DS18B20 is a high precision temperature sensor, which already converts the measured analogue temperatu...

The mcp4725 Digital to Analogue Converter Goal: The digital to analogue converter is a device very often used in control applications. Some HV power supplies are...

Examination projects on Embedded Systems, Physics class I expect that you solve the problems on your own and you do not copy from your colleagues. For the examin...

Exercises in Python One way to develop the course in a new direction is the replacement of the C programming language by Python. You should not be mislead however...

Exercises 3: Files, Pipes and Sockets Goal: When talking to the sensors during the next exercises we will use a Raspberry Pi to do the readout. Two different lib...

Final Feedback!!! It been a great time working with you. Ever since i took this project, i have a learn a lot especially with the Arduino devices and Bluetooth st...

The 2 line LCD display. A 2 line LCD display can be used to display simple information. When using an ADC to read voltages it can be used to show the results impl...

The Hantek 6022BE Digital Storage Oscilloscope For the course on embedded systems we need an oscilloscope to be able to see certain signals created by micro contr...

The heart beat monitor This consists of an Infrared LED and a photocell. If you put your finger in between the LED and the photocell the you can observe small var...

The Heart Rate Sensor Goal: The heartbeat monitor consists of a simple Infrared LED combined with a photo diode measuring the IR light traversing you finger and ...

The I2C bus If you want to know the details on how the I2C bus works, here are the specs. If that is too much, then you might want to have a look at this I2C bus ...

Exercise 15: EEPROM and Driver Access Goal: The goal of this exercise is twofold: First we will learn about an EEPROM, a Electrically Erasable Read Only Memory. ...

ISD 1820 audio module The ISD1820 is an audio module allowing to record and play back audio of ~ 10s duration. Unfortunately the chip does not allow to read out t...

Implementing the Arduino toolbox The program structure As you would probably expect, the program will consist of three parts * a server running on the Arduino...

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The joystick The joystick consists of 2 potentiometers which are read through two ADCs. On the Arduino we use the built in 10 bit ADCs giving us values of 0..1024...

Exercise 11: The LCD Display Goal: The main goal of this exercise is to prepare for an exercises on Analogue to Digital Conversion (ADC). In the ADC exercise we ...

Controlling the Arduino LED via Bluetooth First I connected up the HC 06 with the Arduino. The obvious way to do this is to use the Rx and Tx pins on the Arduino ...

Lecture Slides This page contains all the lecture slides: For more information please contact: uli.raich #64;gmail.com Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Th...

LEDs 5 out of the 37 sensors are some sort of LEDS: First we have the standard LEDs (not part of the sensor kit) As you can see from the photo LE...

Exercises 5: First Exercise on Hardware: LEDs Goal: Now that we know how to program the Raspberry Pi we will start to setup our first electronic circuits, albeit...

Measuring Light Intensity with a Photo Resistor and a Capacitor Goal: A photo resistor is a device whose resistivity decreases with increasing intensity of light...

Linux Basics What to do after installing Ubuntu Ubuntu has become a very suitable Operating System for building embedded systems. But immediately after installin...

Exercises 1: Discovering Linux Goal: Today\x92s embedded systems are more powerful than many minicomputers we had some 20 years ago. The computer I worked on whe...

The MCP4725 Digital to Analogue converter Often we need analogue signal levels or synthetically produced (program controlled) signals to drive external devices. T...

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Additional Sensors The sensor kit was originally designed to be used with the Arduino, an Italian micro controller design very popular with hobbyists. The Arduino...