Sensirion's SHT1x and SHT7x series of humidity sensors interfaced to PIC Microcontroller

Sensirion's SHT series of humidity sensors integrate sensor elements with all the required signal processing circuits on chip, and provide fully calibrated digital outputs for relative humidity and temperature measurements. This tutorial explains how you can interface a SHT1x/7x sensor to a PIC microcontroller to measure ambient temperature and relative humidity. The tutorial described in full detail about the sensors, their specifications and interface, and the implementation of communication protocol using mikroC compiler.

Two sensors are simultaneously interfaced to PIC and the consistency between the two sets of results are also explored.

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Contact less tachometer using PIC16F628A

Introduction Tachometer is a device that gives you the information about the rotational speed of any shaft or disc. It usually measures the speed in revolutions per minute (RPM). Today we are going to make a simple tachometer that could measure the rotation speed of a disk without making any physical contact (that's why it is contact less) with the rotating object. The range of this tachometer is 0 - 9999 RPM and displays the RPM on a multiplexed 4-digit seven-segment display. Of course, we are going to do this project on our usual PIC16F628A development board. Infrared sensor Contact-less measurement of RPM will be achieved through an IR sensor. An IR diode will send a beam of infrared towards the rotating disc, and any reflected pulse will be received by a photo diode. The resistance of a photo diode drops drastically when exposed to infrared. An infrared is reflected by a white surface and absorbed by the dark ones. The test disc for this project is shown below. You can see ...

PIC16F628A Development Board

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Experiments with PIC16F628A

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