Month: August 2012

Automatic Cable Cutting Machine

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Following on from my post about mass production, here is a bit of a post about a crazy challenge I set myself. For the LEEDR data acquisition(DAQ) units and for my DIY solar PV kit I needed to cut a number of pieces of wire and cable to an exact length. For example: the DAQ … more

Mass production (almost)

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I have recently been building a number of data acquisition (DAQ) units for the LEEDR project at Loughborough University. The unit is an Arduino based DAQ which stores a number of temperatures and flow rates onto an SD card. A real time clock is used to timestamp the data and the output is a .csv … more