Challenge Blog

Blog #16: Today I received Grand Prize

misaz

Hello everyone. Today I received Grand Prize which I won in recently concluded Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Design Challenge. It started with hand drawing schematic of experiment plans like on following photo almost three months ago. ...
- 7 Jul 2022
The Winners of Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Challenge

rscasny

We have completed the Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Design Challenge, sponsored by Maxim Integrated - ADI, and featuring its MAX40080 Precision, Fast Sample-Rate, Digital Current-Sense Amplifier. Overall, we had 10 participants with 9 f...
- 20 Jun 2022
Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers -- The Winners Announcement Will be Posted Soon

rscasny

There were some outstanding blogs written in this competition. Just a lot of good experiments. It's taken longer to decide on the winners. But we will have them announced this week. thank you for being patient. Randall --element14 Team
- 14 Jun 2022
Safer 3D Printer - Blog #5 - It Vorks!

aspork42

In my final post for this build, I'll share my working project and some thoughts I've had along the way. What did I build? Using the Current6Click current monitoring board mounted on a Pi3 Click Shield, and mounted on a RaspberryPi, I was abl...
- 8 Jun 2022
Misaz’s Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Summary Blog

misaz

Hello everyone. I welcome you to my last summary blog part when I want to conclude this contest, summarize what I have done and summarize what I have learnt. Blog Posts As part of contest, I published 14 blog posts (+ this one). This is 7× more...
- 7 Jun 2022
Blog #14: Experimenting with Overvoltage Detection

misaz

Hello everyone. After reading last blog posts form other challengers, I felt some confusing with 6-bit values used when configuring overvoltage, undervoltage and overcurrent detection and accuracy of this detection. In fact all of this things are men...
- 7 Jun 2022
Blog 2: Predictive maintenance of drones using MAX40080 current sense amplifier

vishwasn

Hello everyone, In this blog, I would like to briefly describe how I will be using the current sense amplifier module to detect the anomaly in the drone. At various throttle levels, the current consumed by the motors ...
- 7 Jun 2022
Blog #13: MAX40080 Samples corruption when FIFO Roll-over mode enabled

misaz

Hello everyone. This is my last blog post (I am considering one more, but most probably I will not be able to write them before deadline) as part Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Design Challenge. In next blog post I will post complete sum...
- 7 Jun 2022
Blog #12: Long Term Power Consumption Monitoring

misaz

Hello everyone. I welcome you to the blog describing my last experiment which I promised in my first blog post as part of Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Design Challenge. In blogs #2, #3 and #4 I shown basic usage of MAX40080 Current Sen...
- 7 Jun 2022
Rover Motor Control - Blog #2

milosrasic98

Rover Motor Control Table of Contents 1. Introduction & Idea 2. Plan Challenger Kit ROS Things I will be making 3. ROS ROS structure Installing ROS 4. Getting started with the MAX40080 Communicating with MAX40080 Configuring the MAX40080...
- 7 Jun 2022
Blog #5: Detecting Overcurrent, Overvoltage, Undervoltage and using these features in Practical Circuit

taifur

In this blog post, I will test the over-voltage and over-current protection features and charge a Li-ion battery with the Current 6 Click board using those features. MAX40080 has a dedicated pin named as ALERT_ that indicates any overflow ...
- 6 Jun 2022
#Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Blog 2

vinayyn

Block Diagram of Max40080 To communicate with the Max40080 and raspberry we must know the I2C address of the Max40080, The MIKROE Current 6 Click I2C Address is 0X21. after connecting the MIKROE Current 6 Click with ras...
- 6 Jun 2022
Blog #11: USB Type-C Power Delivery monitoring

misaz

Hello everyone. In this eleventh blog post I will show my third experiment which I promised in my first blog post as part of Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Design Challenge. In blogs #2, #3 and #4 I shown basic usage of MAX40080 Current ...
- 5 Jun 2022
Safer 3D Printers with CSA - Blog #4 - Nearly functionally complete!

aspork42

Hello again! I'm looking at how to use a Current Sense Amplifier to make a safer 3D printer. By monitoring the current going out to the printer's nozzle and heat bed, we can detect loose/broken, and shorted wires. Where am I at with all this? Well - ...
- 5 Jun 2022
Blog #10: Raspberry Pi Self Power Consumption Measurement

misaz

Hello everyone. I welcome you to my blog post describing my experiment as part of Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Design Challenge. Purpose of this experiment is showing possibility of measuring power consumption of Raspberry Pi by the sa...
- 4 Jun 2022
Blog #9: Measuring USB Flash Disk Power Consumption

misaz

I welcome you to my 9th blog as part of Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Design Challenge. In my first blog post #1 I described my experiment plans as part of this contest. In blogs #2, #3 and #4 I shown basic usage of MAX40080 Current Sen...
- 31 May 2022
Blog #6: A Current-Sensing PSU Upgrade – PSU Logging, CSA & FastLog Comparison, a Sound Check & an Overall Summary

Gough Lui

While I had hoped to do more, unfortunately, because of time constraints arising from work commitments and the fact that the challenge is due to end, this will be the final blog in the series. It wouldn’t be a complete challenge if I didn&rsquo...
- 31 May 2022
Blog #4: Experimenting Current Sense Amplifier by Changing Different Parameters

taifur

In this blog post, I will change different parameters like the sample rate, and digital filter of the current sense amplifier and try to find if there is any effect of those parameters on accuracy and stability. For this purpose, I will measure the c...
- 30 May 2022
Blog #5: A Current-Sensing PSU Upgrade – Arduino Gets Involved, Ground to Raspberry Pi … Alien Signal Identified!

Gough Lui

In my last blog posting, I tried to characterise the accuracy and noise performance of the Mikroe Current 6 Click incorporating the Analog Devices MAX40080 Precision, Fast Sample-Rate Digital Current Sense Amplifier using an SMU and PSU, but instead ...
- 28 May 2022
Safer 3D Printer - Blog#3

aspork42

In today's blog, I'd like to give a current update on the current state of my current project monitoring current. TL;DR - I've got my hardware test rig working, and a Python script talking to the module, but ran into an issue ...
- 26 May 2022
Blog #3: High-side, Low-side and Low current sensing

taifur

High-side & Low-side Sensing There are two locations in a circuit the current shunt is commonly placed for current measurements. The first location is between the power supply and the load. This measurement method is referred to as high-side sens...
- 23 May 2022
Blog #8: Using MAX40080 without writing any code

misaz

Hello everyone, I welcome you to my serie of blog posts which I wrote as part of Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Design Challenge. Until now I wrote this and previous 7 blog posts as part of this contest. In my first blog post #1 I descri...
- 22 May 2022
Blog #4: A Current-Sensing PSU Upgrade – Accuracy & Noise Performance

Gough Lui

Now that I have a much better understanding of how to “talk” to the MAX40080 and the performance limitations of the combination with Python and the Raspberry Pi 3 B running 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS Lite, it would be nice to get an understan...
- 22 May 2022
Blog#8 Final Challenge post

colporteur

community.element14.com/.../1067.train_5F00_walk.mp4 This is the final post for the challenge. I have been in a holding pattern of trying to finish the challenge. In blog#7 I provided a picture of the water coverage in the area. I completed bench tes...
- 21 May 2022
Blog #3: A Current-Sensing PSU Upgrade – Setting Up

Gough Lui

While I had intended for a steady stream of blogs to feature in this particular design challenge, a last-minute pile-up of commitments saw me being sent on a 4.5-hour trip interstate for over a week to perform some data collection. After returning ho...
- 21 May 2022