Category: Sensor

Affordable Plug-and-Play LiDAR Camera: Onion Tau
Onion Corporation, the company best known for its computing and IoT connectivity devices is currently crowdfunding their LiDAR depth camera system named the Onion Tau. Onion Tau Camera is a 3D depth-sensing camera. It is capable of producing 3D depth data rather than color frames. The...
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Liquid or Air Pressure Switch with Relay
This pressure switch project is built using a piezoresistive transducer, LM358 OPAMP as comparator, and a relay. The circuit activate the relay when the pressure in a system exceed a given set-point. Basically, this switch can power ON or OFF a pump, valve, motor, when certain pressure...
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Vishay’s New Automotive Grade Proximity Sensors Deliver High Resolution Up to 20 µm for Force Sensing
The Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today introduced two new fully integrated Automotive Grade proximity sensors with high resolution up to 20 µm for force sensing applications. They each combine a photodiode, amplifier, and ADC circuitry in a 4 mm by 2.36 mm...
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Affordable RadarIQ-M1 mmWave Radar Sensor Can Detect Through Walls
With the mindset of making millimeter RADAR (mmRadar) easily available and affordable to makers, tinkerers, and engineers around the globe, RadarIQ has launched a crowdfunding campaign for their new RadarIQ-M1 Sensor on Kickstarter. It is an attempt to make Radar technology open to every...
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Strain Gauge Sensor Amplifier OR Single Supply Instrumentation Amplifier
This is a new project, a single supply instrumentation amplifier with onboard bridge configuration, and a 2.5V precision reference voltage chip. The project can be configured for applications such as thermocouple amplifier, bridge amplifier, ECG amplifier, pressure sensors, medical...
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STMicroelectronics TSC201x bidirectional current sense amplifier
The TSC2010, TSC2011, and TSC2012 are precision bidirectional current sense amplifiers. The TSC2010, TSC2011, and TSC2012 are precision bidirectional current sense amplifiers. They can sense the current thanks to a shunt resistor over a wide range of common-mode voltages, from -20 to...
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Infineon presents tailored sensor solutions for smart buildings and life in the future
At the virtual electronica starting 10 November 2020, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) will present the company’s sensor portfolio with a focus on smart buildings and consumer life in the future. Products and application examples will be digitally presented and...
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PineCube Camera Dev Kit Powered by 5MP Omnivison OV5640
Pine64 announced its open-spec PineCube back in 2019 as a device called The Cube equipped with the 8-megapixel Sony iMX179 CMOS sensor. But for the technical issues with the Sony sensor, they changed it into a 5MP OmniVision OV5640 sensor and implemented the new name PineCube. The camera...
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