Friday, July 17, 2015

Logbook 7/17

We got in our lithium battery 'charger' that we ordered this week. Although we dont plan to implement this piece til the end, we though ahead and realized that most users of our device may not have an easy wasy to charge their product unless we provide them with a hookup. The module we purchased connects via usb and regulates current to the the lithium battery (we assume all consumers will have access to a 5V usb jack). Tte device is the size of a small cracker.  Furthermore, we still havent gotten our filter put together, but Mustafa has been doing simulations on different filter designs. Hopefully we get something working by next week.
After we get the filter/amplifier working, we can examine the signals that we get and possibly use a frequency to voltage IC chip to detect frequencies rather than our complex sampling code. Unfortunatly, the oscilliscopes in the Elab do not have spectrum analyzers built into them (or at least nobody knows how to find the spectrum analyer function) so we will still need to use the existing arduino sampling code to at least harvest some data to graph and examine.

 double pole (more components, better rolloff)

single pole, inverting and non inverting
**since our signal is bipolar, whether we invert or not doesnt matter much unless we use a DC bias.

schematic for DC offset to an op amp




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