Embeded Systems
Micro-electro-mechanical Systems (MEMS) are ubiquitous today. If you own a smart phone, you have several MEMS sensors at your fingertips. When I designed this development board, I wanted to create an educational platform that would teach the following concepts used by electrical engineers and computer scientists today:
- MEMS sensor technology
- 3-axis accelerometer with I2C interface
- 3-axis magnetometer with I2C interface
- 6-axis gyroscope and accelerometer with I2C interface
- 8-bit PIC16F1829 Microcontroller
- UART for interfacing with a computer
- High brightness LED output driver
- Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS) boost converter basics
- DC Motor control output
- 256k EEPROM with SPI interface
- C programming methods and data structures
- Interrupt service routine (ISR)
- Powered by a single Lithium Ion battery
That’s a lot of technology packed into a single 2″ by 3″ board. If you are interested in purchasing one for your project, please contact us.
Kits Under Development -
- Vertical farming and Photosynthesis experiment
- Radioactivity Kit for physics, chemistry and earth science studies
- Photomultiplier tube and electronics for single photon counting: astronomy, geology, physics and chemistry studies
- High brightness LED discovery kit
- Switch Mode Power Supply, (SMPS) development kit for introduction to power engineering
- Controls kit for introduction to closed loop systems and State Space representation
- Wireless power transmission kit
1200 year old petroglyphs at Capitol Reef National Park in Southern Utah