Hi Everyone,
This is an update on my progress with "Experimenting with Vibration Sensors - Machine Safety". I have programmed the board (Arduino Mega 2560) and ready for testing. I decided to go with the Arduino as I am more familiar with everything about it. I have it start with a calibration of the sensor by doing a loop 15 times over 15 seconds. Each loop it reads the sensor and saves the total, after it divides the total by 15 for the average. I will post my code next blog. I brought it to work to test the sensor and my set up. This is only a starting test to see how well the sensor reads the vibrations and what the output is.
Below is a photo of the set-up I created:
Thank you again to our sponsor KEMET for their hardware and Element14 for having this challenge and the Element14 community,
Dale W