Questions tagged [sensors]
Use this tag for questions about selecting, connecting, using, and debugging sensors.
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How to get weight data from glass electronic bathroom scale sensors?
I am doing a small project with a bathroom scale but I run into some problems. I am using an Arduino Uno V3, HX711 module amp and a scale.
Scale:
HX711 amplifier:
I disassembled the scale to get ...
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How to combine two different sensor sketches to one complete sketch?
How to combine two different sensor sketches to one complete sketch for a complete circuit that attaches to one Arduino Uno?
Sharp Dust Sensor
int measurePin = A0; // Connect dust sensor to Arduino ...
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How to move from arduino to physical prototype
I've been reading a bit about moving from Arduino to PCB and it seems a bit daunting. For now, all I really want to do is take something I've built, and make a few changes so that I can actually ...
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Best way to determine if a 5 gallon water jug is getting empty
I have an espresso machine that gets its water from one of those 5 gallon blue water bottles (I would plumb it, but our water here is WAAAAY too hard).
If I ever accidentally let the bottle run out ...
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How to measure total energy usage of an arduino board
I have a project that I'm currently working on. We have built a green wall, wich consists of plants on a wall
Now, we have a pump situated at the bottom that waters all the plants. There is an ...
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Multiple I2C sensors with the same address
I am trying to find the simplest way to connect multiple (preferably around 10-20) IMU sensors to one controller. There are two constraints: sampling at 60Hz and reasonably simple wiring as I want to ...
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What is the difference between Accelerometer, Gyro, and Magnetometer Sensor?
I'm starting in the arduino world and I'm building an autonomous smart vehicle.
So, after some weeks building and adjusting the vehicle, I got to a point in this project that I want to log it's ...
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Declaring Variables in a For Loop
I am trying to use a for loop for getting readings on two parallax ping sensors and want to find the difference between both readings.
But am having trouble doing so. Whenever I declare print ping(1), ...
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Detect movement on moving robot? PIR Sensor
I am working on a human following robot project and I am trying to achieve this with 1 Ultrasonic sensor that makes sure the robot won't crash into something and 3 PIR sensors that will detect human ...
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How to add Ultrasonic Sensor to the board?
I am making an RC car , have combined the Arduino UNO R3 with the AR 293d, and pluged in the HC-SR04 sensor to the SRO4 hole at the left top corner in the below graph. However, besides one sensor I ...
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It is possible to control brightness of an LED strip (connected using a relay and having a seperate power supply ) using output from an arduino?
The circuit contains a relay interfacing with 12v power supply and LED strip. Can the brightness for this strip of LEDs be controlled using the analogWrite command?
This works perfectly for a single ...
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The use of 4.7kOhm resistor with DS18B20 temperature sensor [closed]
I was using a temperature sensor DS18B20 with Arduino.
I've read that you should connect the digital input line and the 5V line with a 4.7kOhm resistor - like in the picture.
Can someone explain ...
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Sensor for underground water tank level
In a similar way to the question "best way to determine if a 5 gallon water jug is getting empty", I'm looking for a way to measure water in a container. This is so it can be connected to an Arduino ...
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What is the work of pulseIn?
I have code for an ultrasonic sensor which I found from a site. Here is the code:
#define trigPin 12
#define echoPin 13
void setup() {
Serial.begin (9600);
pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(...
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Grove sensors without a Grove shield
There exists a large variety of sensors in the Grove System. Usually these are accessed via a special shield (Grove base shield).
Can I access these sensor directly without a shield. In particular I ...
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Why is that any sensor signal need to be hooked up to the interrupt pins on Andruino boards?
I have come across some Andruino Sensors like Motion, Light and all recommend to be connected to pin 2 or 3 on Andruino Uno board which are interrupt pins. This is especially true if you are looking ...
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Two sensors on one input
I got this question from my teacher the other day and I can't figure it out:
If you have two sensors from two different outputs but want them to go into one input, what do you need, and how can you ...
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How to connect 5V sensors to 3.3V digital input (Due)?
I'm completely new with Arduino and microcontrollers in general.
I have several 5V sensors, and need 3.3V because that's the max for the Due. Is it possible to use a resistor to connect it to the ...
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Arduino Due and BNO055 address in i2c mode
I have a project where I need to have several IMUs, the BNO055 shuttle board (I explained my project here), I manage to get the Euler angles from one BNO055 sensor, which have the address 0x29, ...
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Using / calibrating pH sensor module
I've bought this sensor module board to link to an Arduino nano: http://www.ebay.com/itm/For-Arduino-Liquid-PH-Value-Detection-detect-Sensor-Module-Monitoring-Controller/321764233326
I assumed the ...
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Moving motion sensor?
Long story short, I'm trying to build some form of device that you can wear and it will detect when something moves behind you. I wanted to use PIR sensors for the motion detection, but I have no idea ...
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How does the Space Replay record audio?
The Space Replay
A hovering object that explores and manipulates transitional public
spaces with particular acoustic properties. By constantly recording
and replaying these ambient sounds, the ...
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Understanding Soil Moisture Sensor Values
I have soil Moisture sensor inserted into the pot soil, wet in state. (not too damp) and soil moisture sensor is connected to Arduino Mega 2560.
This is the soil moisture sensor I am using:
Soil ...
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Detect and stream if a chair is occupied
I am planning to build a device able to detect and tell a server via Wi-Fi if a chair is occupied. How would you do it? And how cheap do you think the device could be?
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Built-in capacitive touch detection with SAMD21 development board (Arduino Zero Compatible)
I bought this SAMD21 development board which shows up as an "Arduino/Genuino Zero (Native USB Port)" when plugged in. And I've successfully got a blink sketch running on it all good so far:
The ...
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How do I listen for a sound that matches a pre-recorded sound?
I'm working on a project that uses an Arduino Uno to listen for a bell ring and then uploads to a web server the exact time the bell was rung using a WiFi Shield.
I want to know how I can listen for ...
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Why is the constrain function used after the map function?
I am reading some sample code and they use this method of mapping data from IR sensors:
sensor1 = analogRead(0);
adj_1 = map(sensor1, s1_min, s1_max, 0, 255);
adj_1 = constrain(adj_1, 0, 255);
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I2C sensors not working when I connect to LCD 20X04
I am making a hydroponic nutrient monitoring system using Arduino Uno, Atlas Scientific EC sensor, pH sensor, and RTD (temperature) sensor in I2C mode. I also want to use LCD 20x04 to display the ...
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TFMini Sensors with Arduino
I have three TFMini sensors I need all of them to detect. I only got one to work , pins 4,5 . My info in coding is basic . I really appreciate your help . Thanks in advance.
I think the problem is ...
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Connect Arduino to MySQL database online problem
I'm trying to connect Arduino with MySQL database on my online server.
I manage my project to work on WampServer locally on localhost, but when I try to move everything online I have problem... on ...
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Using the Waspmote Sensor Board
Spanish company Libelium makes this pretty impressive sensor board:
http://www.libelium.com/products/waspmote/sensors/
for their Waspmote series of boards. These are not meant for Arduino ...
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Not enough pins on Uno?
I'm making touch-sensitive, light up tic-tac-toe board.
That means 9 LEDs + 9 capacitive sensors.
Each LED needs 1 pin and each sensor needs 2...meaning I'd need 27 pins to properly control each ...
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Getting BPM from the given code
I have found code that can blink an LED on Arduino according to Heart Beat. I am using AD8232 as a sensor for Heart Rate.
Code for it is:
// Variables
int PulseSensorPurplePin = 0; // Pulse Sensor ...
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Understanding Digital IMU 6DOF sketch
I am looking at the following code and getting confused by a few elements in it:
1) Why is there a writeto function being performed to the memory locations x053,0x31,x09 for accelerometer and 0x68,...
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Grove temperature sensor with Arduino Yun
I try to test Grove - Infrared Temperature Sensor on Arduino Yun with the sample code but it does not work. In the console it shows that the object temperature is out of range all the time. However, ...
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How to write nonblocking code, for polling sensor at 100 Hz
I'm using this piece of code to try to poll an IMU sensor at 100 Hz (for a AHRS sensor fusion library).
void loop(void)
{
// nonblocking code variables
static uint32_t last_ms;
uint32_t ms;
// ...
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Communicating with magnetic sensor - TLV493D-A1B6 over I2C
I'm using the TLV493D-A1B6 sensor connected to an Arduino Uno: I've attached all necessary documentation at the bottom.
This is a 3D magnetic field position sensor that detects the magnetic field ...
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"tamper" circuit of a reed switch: can I connect the two wires to an INPUT and an OUTPUT pin?
While working for the automation side of my new house, I'm currently in the process of installing several reed switches on top of external doors and windows.
Even if this could be used as a "...
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Problems coding a 12 pin 7 segment display and grove temperature sensor with Arduino Uno
I am trying to code my 12 pin seven segment display to display the temperature from my grove temperature sensor. I am new to this and I have been struggling, so if anyone could help that would be much ...
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Does a moisture sensor need warm-up time?
I am trying to use a moisture sensor to identify the moisture value of my plants. (As every one does.)
The sensor was connected to VCC all the time and my battery goes empty after a short time. So I ...
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Combining code for multiple sensors in one program
I need to operate 2 different sensors (gas and temp) simultaneously.
I have managed to run each one of them separately and I don't know how to manipulate the code so they could work together. My ...
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Powering Atmega328P-Pu externally [closed]
Please I'm new to Arduino and I need assistance. I'm working on a project which makes use of the ultrasonic sensor to make a certain pin high if a certain distance is attained. When I used the USB ...
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Processing Serial data
I have a PM10 sensor that I'd like to get the values from.
Here's the official documentation from the sensor:
I've looked as serial communication, but how do i process byte by byte of information ...
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Interrupts Problem with Flow sensor
#include <Wire.h> //I2C lib
#include <LCD.h>
#include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h>
// LCD lib
LiquidCrystal_I2C lcd(0x3F, 2, 1, 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3, POSITIVE);
const int pot_pin = A0;
const ...
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Problem with a DHT11 Temperature & Humidity sensor
I'm new in the Arduino world and today i was trying to make a simple program to show the temparature an humidity with this sensor. I made a circuit following one tutorial and nothing happend, the ...
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How do I select Sensor using chip 74HC138 on Wemos D1 Mini?
I have a project for my graduate degree.
It's about Monitoring Temperature and Humidity using Message Queuing Telemetry Transport on Serial NodeJS. To get sensor data to Wemos D1 Mini and NodeJS had ...
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Can you help me combining these sensor sketches as one in Arduino [closed]
I want to combine these three sketches into one.
RAIN SENSOR:
int rainPin = A0;
int greenLED = 6;
int redLED = 7;
// you can adjust the threshold value
int thresholdValue = 500;
void setup(){
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Which sensor to detect light?
I have a kit of 37 sensors as described here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-37-in-1-Sensors-Kit-Explained/?ALLSTEPS
https://tkkrlab.nl/wiki/Arduino_37_sensors
I want to create a simple ...
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Arduino Due and BNO055
For a physical activity monitoring project, I am developing a prototype based on an Arduino Due and several IMUs (BNO055 from Bosch).
I have to collect the data from the sensors simultaneously (3 for ...
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code for automatic door
I want it running as a normal automatic door so both sensors work as a separate activate. The only problem I've seen is that the servo remains active waiting for another high read and you can hear the ...
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