Hi everyone!
My name is Estefano, I'm 21 and I live in the UK.
I'm on my last year of my college Engineering course, and for my project I want to build a circuit that will get the readings of a force sensor and display them in Newtons in 7 segment displays.
Now the reason why I chose to do an electronics project is because I'm not very good at it (I'm terrible with electronics). I know it sounds contradictory, but I wanted to choose something that I have difficult with so I can learn, and I would really appreciate if you could give me a hand!
My first question is about the force sensor: This is meant to get the readings of quick force changes, for example the impact of a pellet. Are potentiometers/force sensors that use change in resistance to do this, sensitive enough to get such quick changes? I searched on the internet about this and I couldn't get much of an answer.
For the first stage of my project I need to present 3 different circuit solutions to display the force sensor's value in newtons.
The one that I chose for my project is using a force sensor and then input those readings into a programmable controller.
I sketched a diagram to show better what I'm trying to do.
Seems alright and I'm capable of doing it, problem is the other 2 proposals, I have no idea what to do, and I have to show circuitry for all of them :/
Could someone please give me a hand?
Thanks in advance!
My name is Estefano, I'm 21 and I live in the UK.
I'm on my last year of my college Engineering course, and for my project I want to build a circuit that will get the readings of a force sensor and display them in Newtons in 7 segment displays.
Now the reason why I chose to do an electronics project is because I'm not very good at it (I'm terrible with electronics). I know it sounds contradictory, but I wanted to choose something that I have difficult with so I can learn, and I would really appreciate if you could give me a hand!
My first question is about the force sensor: This is meant to get the readings of quick force changes, for example the impact of a pellet. Are potentiometers/force sensors that use change in resistance to do this, sensitive enough to get such quick changes? I searched on the internet about this and I couldn't get much of an answer.
For the first stage of my project I need to present 3 different circuit solutions to display the force sensor's value in newtons.
The one that I chose for my project is using a force sensor and then input those readings into a programmable controller.
I sketched a diagram to show better what I'm trying to do.
Seems alright and I'm capable of doing it, problem is the other 2 proposals, I have no idea what to do, and I have to show circuitry for all of them :/
Could someone please give me a hand?
Thanks in advance!
