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Interesting stuff
Guy Fraser edited this page Aug 3, 2017
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Just random interesting stuff found along the way...
- huge list of sensors with links
- another fairly good resource
- vast range of photonics - incl. lenses, collimators, etc.
- OSH PCB printing - upload design, anyone can get them printed
- pcbs.io - similar to OSH above
- PCB printing & assembly:
- Speech synthesis
- Tiny MP3 player from SD card
- Mic that uses 3 µA in sleep mode - could be really useful for audio trigger
- Various speakers
- MEMS microspeakers - potential use for siren feature
- IA-610 DSP MEMS microphone
- Ultrasonic MEMS microphone
- Sound compass
- Audio triangulation (see also, and also)
- MEMS microphones - select MEMS & Sensors on left
- Great info about solar panels, MPP, and batteries
- Decent 3V3 regulator
- Backup power capacitors
- PV harvester on a chip - note: apartheid regime
- Murata super-cap type things
- Power a motor from an LED!
- Solar MPPT
- 3G antenna to WiFi
- SDR on Mac
- Physical web address
- Wirepas - decentralised radio connectivity for devices (mesh network)
- Puck.js
- RuvviTag
- Board-mounted tiny antenna for LoRa (via this forum post)
- Loads of SMD antennas
- Near Field Comms
- Sonar
- Tiny radar sensors ~4m range
- Leaflet velocity overlay
- Drone LIDAR 20m
- Time of Flight Sensor and processor
- Similar from TI
- God-mode proximity sensors
- Computer vision obstacle avoid camera for drones
- Many IR camera modules
- IR array
- Insane multicamera for phones
- Basics of Thermal Imaging
- IMEC hyperspectral imaging
- FIR sensor array
- Hi-res thermal imaging sensors
- Mobile phone based spectrometer - Hue values FTW
- mini spectrometers, etc
- dev: hyperspectral; UV/VIS/IR – likely to be inexpensive
- hyperspectral; various – headwall
- hyperspectral CCD; 165 to 1100 nm
- Hyperspectral MEMS camera – note: apartheid regime
- hyperspectral; 400 to 1000 nm - surface optics
- PARC hyperspectral
- C12666MA - 340 to 780 nm (~$300)
- C12880MA - 340 to 850 nm (~$300)
- SPM64 - 387 – 903 nm, 776 – 1064 nm
- AS7262 - 430 to 670 nm (<£7)
- AS7263 - 600 to 870 nm (<£7)
- Pyroelectric spectrometer
- Multi-purpose photodiode
- Twilight photometer (instructible)
- MEMS-FPI (Fabry-Perot Interferometer) tunable filter
- Grid-EYE - IR grid camera
- CMUcam - open source programmable cameras
- Infragrams - track plant photosyntesis
- SWIR from Princeton IR
- Airborne VSWIR forest spectrometry
- TCS3200-DB Color Sensor - overly expensive, but mainly listing here because it has a collimating lens which might merit further investigation
- OS radiation sensor - very interesting ion trace chart
- 400µA SMD radiation sensor, and older version
- RadBit
- D411S-20-D0010 - Neutron Detector
- UVA UVB light sensor MEMS
- X-ray sensor
- Kearny Fallout Meter
- Berkeley RadWatch
- Radiation dosimeter IC
- Loads of optical sensors
- Ambient light & UV sensor, with interrupts
- god mode UVA/UVB sensor - very accurate, low power, UVA/UVB separately measured
- Optical O2 sensor, calibrated
- How to build test chamber for particle sensors
- Cheap open source PM sensor
- Raindrop measurement techniques
- Python Disdrometer lib
- Rain and Light sensor - can determine amount of rain optically
- Sonic disdrometer
- Measure thickness of cloud via GPS
- Atmospheric moisture content via GPS, another
- Calculate cloud base from dew point
- Calculate dew point
- Cloud photogrammetry, another, forecasting
- Particle sensing notes
- DustDuino - air particulate
- Air column monitor - wind speed, particulate, VOCs etc
- IR1011, AK9710 CO2
- In-development gas sensor differentiates between VOCs
- List of sensors - via
- Water usage sensor - includes mesh networking
- Determine type of liquid using pressure sensor
- Environmental water monitoring
- Riffle - open source water sensors
- Non-contact water detector works through walls (XKC-Y25-T12V)
- Water-saving irrigation system
- Hitec nano servo, and with built-in driver circuit
- Sanyo mini stepper motor
- Small stepper motor – similar
- Tiny stepper motor – another
- NMB stepper motor
- Two stepper motors, 1.5-3V, wired with connector
- 5cm slider stepper motor
- 1cm slider stepper motor
- aperture motor - another
- Biodegradable polymorph mouldable thermoplastic
- MEMS waterproof pressure sensor
- Chirp sonar gesture sensor (more infos) - like Google Soli, but using ultrasonic
- Seismic sensor
- Signal conditioning circuit
- Calibrating magnetometers
- Detect illegal logging with cellphones
- Wallabot - radar that can see through walls
- Open plane tracking db
- Plane spotter (more - useful stuff about wifi-based geoloc)
- Bubble and ball spirit level vials (also circular)
- eInk FPGA controller
- Using Google Soli for Object Classification - could it be used as a disdrometer?
- Plot.ly - a nice-looking wrapper for D3 charts
- Heated-wire anemometer (update)
- Calibrating sensors
- Opensource Tricorder
- Weather instruments
- Open Sensor Hub
- I2C over long wires using differential
- Laser scanning microscope
- I2C address changer
- Backscatter radio soil sensor network
- Nice wall-mounted weather display
- Wake on PIR
- Save ESP8266 RAM with PROGMEM
- Modern C stuff for Arduino
- Diode temperature sensor
- TaoBao
- Alternate to voltage boosters
- Aliasing sensor signals
- Negative resistance Tunnel diodes
- Photo tachometer
- Pulse Oximeter
- Parallel port / USB converter
- Omron Mains Switches - manual on/off, but also can be turned off via 5V pulse
- Probe pins
- Using an Arduino as a gateway to program an ATTiny - vid, blog
- MEMS mirror
- optics modules
- proximity, colour, pixel
- Connectors
- SMT RF Filters
- ESD protection
- Tiny solenoids (fluid pumps), more, miniature pumps
- Decent HCI switches, buttons, joysticks, more, including some insane sliders, vast array of switches
- Karnaugh Map Simplification - one of the few useful things I learnt at college!
- Robot stuff