A Hands-On Course in Sensors Using the Arduino and Raspberry Pi is the first book to give a practical and wide-ranging account of how to interface sensors and actuators with micro-controllers, Raspberry Pi, and other control systems. The author describes the progression of raw signals through conditioning stages, digitization, data storage, and presentation.
The collection, processing, and understanding of sensor data play a central role in industrial and scientific activities. This book builds simplified models of large industrial or scientific installations that contain hardware and other building blocks, including services for databases, web servers, control systems, and messaging brokers. The book includes a variety of case studies, such as a weather station, ground-vibration measurements, impedance measurements, medical sensor interfacing to web browsers, laser beam profile, and a remote-controlled and fire-seeking robot.
Since the book was first published, this second edition has been updated to reflect new hardware and software releases. Newly added features include the ESP32 microcontroller, several environmental and medical sensors, actuators for signal generation, and a chapter on web sockets, all illustrated in new case studies.
This book suits advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking hands-on laboratory courses in physics and engineering. Hobbyists in robotics clubs and other enthusiasts will also find this book of interest.
Features:
- Includes practical, hands-on exercises that can be conducted in student labs or even at home.
- It covers the latest software and hardware, and all code featured in examples is discussed in detail.
- All steps are illustrated with practical examples and case studies to enhance learning.
https://github.com/volkziem/HandsOnSensors2ed
About the Author
Volker Ziemann obtained his PhD in accelerator physics from Dortmund University in 1990. After post-doctoral positions at Stanford at SLAC and Geneva at CERN, where he worked on the design of the LHC, he moved to Uppsala in 1995, where he worked at the electron-cooler storage ring CELSIUS. In 2005, he moved to the physics department, where he has since taught physics. He was responsible for several accelerator physics projects at CERN, DESY, and XFEL. In 2014, he received the Thuréus Prize from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala.
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