CS501B

Computer Interfacing and Data Acquisition

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The Quotes

Nothing is ever exactly anything, it's only approximately something. J. Ballester - 2004.

You Can't Get There From Here. Ogden Nash - 1957

The Course

Basic Information

Assignments

• Activity 1 - Some like it hot
• Activity 2 - Current Through, Voltage Across
• Activity 3 - Resistance is Futile
• Activity 4 - Thermistors in Paradise
• Activity 5 - Are your Current?
• Activity 6 - The Tau of Resistance
• Activity 7 - Thermistors from Hell
  • Thermistor Data Sheet
  • Basic Stamp Lookup and Lookdown commands
• Activity 8 - Is it just a bunch of hot air?
  • TMP36 Low Voltage Temperature Sensor data Sheet
  • Hamlin E721A0500 spst reed relay
• Activity 9 - I don't see the light
  • IR LED Specifications
  • Bipolar Integrated Circuit with Photodetection Function
  • The Harry Palms Assessment
• Activity 10 - Stepin' Out
  • ULN2003
  • 3 by 3 circular graph paper
  • 6 by 6 circular graph paper
• Activity 11 - The more bits the better.
  • LTC1298 Data Sheet
  • Tantulum capacitors
  • AA Battery ANSI specifications
• Activity 12 - Keep Your Hands Off My Spectra
• Activity 13 - Hot, Hot, Hot?
  • Nuts and Volts 21 - Look Into �The Eye from TI� For Precision Light Readings
  • Taos #5 - Basic Stamp Experiments Using the TSL230
  • Taos TSL230 Data Sheet
  • Basic Stamp Experiments Using the TSL230
  • TSL230 Close-up Picture
  • TI TSL230 Data Sheet
  • TSL230 Basic Stamp Program
• Activity 14 - Roll your own
• BoeBot
  • Sharp IR Detectors
• Taos Color Sensors
  • TSL257
  • TSLx257
  • Basics of Light and Color
  • TAOS TSLx257-Colorimeter Demo Theory & Design
  • Analysis of Noise Sources in the TSL257

Handouts

• Handout 1 - Thermistor Basics
• Handout 2 - Everything Your Mother Didn't Tell You About Fitting Equations to Data
• Handout 3 - Basics of the Basic Stamp I
• Handout 4 - Thermistor Calculations
• Handout 5 - Calculating resistance with the Basic Stamp
• Handout 6 - Basics of the Basic Stamp II
• Handout 7 - Polynomial regression
• Handout 8 - Analog to Digital Convereters
• Handout 9 - Accuracy, Precision, Uuncertainty

Sensor Links

Sensors

Industrial Control

Temperature Links

About Temperatures.com

A Brief History of Temperature Measurement

Temperature Sensor - The Thermistor

What is a thermistor and how does it work?

http://www.thermometrics.com

Thermistor Psychrometer Lab

Parallax Texts

Basic Stamp Manual Version 2.1 (4.3 MB)

Basic Analog and Digital

Applied Sensors

Earth Measurements

Elements of Digital Logic eodl

Industrial Control

Understanding Signals

Lab 10

Other

Switching

Final BoBot Competition