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Using Arduino Sensors
#1

I need to programm arduino and read signal from four straungauge base sensors sample @ 10 KHZ. About 5-6 mS between mesurements.

Topic: The aim is to make a goal that can measure the speed and accuracy of a ball landing on it. A suggestion of implementation is to make straingauge based sensors and interface them to an Arduino board.

I have Arduino Uno, it is possible to sample at this high freq right?
How can I transfer mesurments to EXEL or MATLAB?

Can u please help me?

#2

s sample @ 10 KHZ. About 5 mS between mesurements

how do you do that? 10.000 measurements with 5 ms in between makes at least 50 seconds in my math, or did I miss something?

I have Arduino Uno, it is possible to sample at this high freq right?

An Arduino can sample at 7-8 Khz if you use analogRead(), should be enough to get started.

you can get higher sampling speeds - http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1208715493/11 -

How can I transfer mesurments to EXEL or MATLAB?

You can send the values to any PC over a serial port. Capture the data with a terminal like putty.exe

This code should get your started

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(115200);
}

unsigned long lastTime = 0;

void loop()
{
  while (micros() -100 < lastTime);
  lastTime = micros();
  unsigned long value = analogRead(A0);  // to be replaced by fast analogRead
  Serial.write(value);
}

Can u please help me?

just did, now it is your turn to make the next step.

#3

Thanks a lot, I was pretty lost today! Hope I have now something to start with!

#4