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Inductive Sensing Design Challenge: Portable Detector based on the LDC1000 (#5)

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Sorry for not posting anything as summer holidays have started and I was away for a couple of weeks. I broke off the PCB coil and instead soldered a connector to the evaluation module. This is how my setup with the custom coil looks like: I am still trying…

over 10 years ago
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Inductive Sensing Design Challenge: Portable Detector based on the LDC1000 (#4)

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Since my last blog post I have created a custom coil. It is a 14cm coil with 7 turns of 0.4mm enamelled copper wire. For the purpose of finding the correct value of the filter capacitor, I ordered capacitors in the range from 20pF to 100nF as specified…

over 10 years ago
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Inductive Sensing Design Challenge: Portable Detector based on the LDC1000 (#3)

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This week I have installed Code Composer Studio 6.0.0. This is an Eclipse based environment for developing software for a number of Texas Instruments microcontrollers. I also installed the code from LDC1000-MSPLIB ( LDC1000 Firmware Library for the MSP430…

over 10 years ago
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Inductive Sensing Design Challenge: Portable Detector based on the LDC1000 (#2)

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Since my last post I have been doing some tests with the module and also did some research on using a custom coil. Below is a drawing of the device. The Detector Circuit will contain a microcontroller, Bluetooth module, LDC1000, piezobuzzer, headphone…

over 10 years ago
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Inductive Sensing Design Challenge: Portable Detector based on the LDC1000 (#1)

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Following is the idea of the application: With the TI LDC1000EVM module(s), I will build a portable, wireless metal detector. Using these modules will result in a much more sensitive device. A smartphone or tablet will be used as a remote display as this…

over 10 years ago
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