Hello Element14 community. Welcome you to my first forum post about kit which I received as part On The Line Design Challenge. I started experimenting pretty late this time and writing I started even later, so this time, I post everything on last day :)
Motivation
My motivation was mainly to play with industrial sensors. Most probably everybody can measure temperature with DHT22 nowadays, but over the time I learnt that in electronics, things are not black and white, but rather different technologies have some pros and cons. So as part of challenge, I want to discover offered high quality industrial humidity sensor with analog output, thermocouples and CAN bus.
Unboxing
Kit come at time. Contained everything I expected + Element14 swag (stickers, letter). The most expensive and interesting part is this analog temperature + humidity sensor from Omega. It comes in large box which contained mounting accessors, cable connector, wall mount accessories and PRINTED MANUAL. Really cool.
Second most interesting part of kit for me is pack of 5 K-type thermocouples:
Another part is CAN PHY Shield. It is powered by chip from Maxim Integrated, so it is shield and evaluation kit in one:
Finally there is some compute. It is not that interesting to me, because I already have and play with the same one. You can read my initial impressions from my first Uno Q here.
Finally, Molex pre-crimped cables as a goodie in the kit:
In next forum post, I will prepare temperature and humidity sensor for operation.