Challenge Blog

Blog #16: Today I received Grand Prize

2022-07-07T21:37:00Z

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. ...(read more)

The Winners of Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Challenge

2022-06-20T18:53:00Z

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...(read more)

Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers -- The Winners Announcement Will be Posted Soon

2022-06-14T16:38:00Z

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(read more)

Safer 3D Printer - Blog #5 - It Vorks!

2022-06-08T02:30:00Z

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...(read more)

Misaz’s Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Summary Blog

2022-06-07T21:43:00Z

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...(read more)

Blog #14: Experimenting with Overvoltage Detection

2022-06-07T21:22:00Z

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...(read more)

Blog 2: Predictive maintenance of drones using MAX40080 current sense amplifier

2022-06-07T19:10:00Z

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 ...(read more)

Blog #13: MAX40080 Samples corruption when FIFO Roll-over mode enabled

2022-06-07T16:25:00Z

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...(read more)

Blog #12: Long Term Power Consumption Monitoring

2022-06-07T16:01:00Z

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...(read more)

Rover Motor Control - Blog #2

2022-06-07T12:40:00Z

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...(read more)

Blog #5: Detecting Overcurrent, Overvoltage, Undervoltage and using these features in Practical Circuit

2022-06-06T19:09:00Z

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 ...(read more)

#Experimenting with Current Sense Amplifiers Blog 2

2022-06-06T13:29:00Z

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...(read more)

Blog #11: USB Type-C Power Delivery monitoring

2022-06-05T22:04:00Z

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 ...(read more)

Safer 3D Printers with CSA - Blog #4 - Nearly functionally complete!

2022-06-05T03:32:00Z

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 - ...(read more)

Blog #10: Raspberry Pi Self Power Consumption Measurement

2022-06-04T20:55:00Z

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...(read more)