Road car telemetry, some things will be easy…
… others not so much. I mean, compared to a go-kart telemetry system. The easy part: by connecting to the CAN bus in the ECU, […]
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Barometric altimeter, the core components
In the picture we can see the BMP085 barometric pressure sensor from Bosch and the SOIC packaged PIC18LF14K50.
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That’s more or less what I think the board should look like.
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Go-Kart telemetry and data logging, a road map
A data acquisition system is something I’ve had in mind for a couple of years now. It comprises both electronics and motorsport and would be […]
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Static pressure, an example with VEGA
On a previous post about static pressure I talked a little bit about its importance in determining altitude. As it seems to me that it was […]
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Static pressure
When estimating altitude with a barometric pressure sensor, it’s very important to choose carefully the position of the static hole as the air is perturbed […]
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Ferrari Formula One
In auto racing, 27 and 28 were Ferrari Formula One numbers from 1981 to 1995 except in 1990 when reigning World Champion Alain Prost had […]
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Twenty-seven is a perfect cube, being 33 = 3 × 3 × 3.
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Telemetry backup, EEPROM
Sending data over radio frequency is subject to connectivity flaws; thus it is important to have some data backup mechanism. The most sensible option would […]
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A smart engineer…
A smart engineer can intuitively design something that will work well, but a good engineer will always back up his design with analysis and testing. […]
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