Update & Upcoming Projects

Ah! 2020 is coming to an end, finally. And I am back with update on my upcoming projects. It has been an exhausting year full of uncertainty, stress, and anxiousness. We all have plowed through it.

As you may have noticed, there haven’t been any posts since September. There are many reasons for it tough the most interesting one has been my involvement in EMC/EMI testing of a few new products at work. Hence you soon will be seeing more posts on EMI/EMC and extra robust designs from me.

I had many ambitious plans for the year, but the year had other plans for me. But this didn’t stop me from making plans for the upcoming year. And that’s what this post is all about.

I have made a few changes in my day-to-day life that will grant me some more spare time to making new things and documenting them here. Before we get to that, let me take a moment and wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.

One overdue project steering in my mind for a long time is designing a temperature-sensing device. For this project, I want to put as many features that I possibly can imagine, including the kitchen sink. I want to experiment with various aspects of this project, like designing high accuracy analog design, PCB as faceplate for the device, 3D printing, etc. 

So I am calling it OETS – Over Engineered Temperature Sensor.

Here are a few features I’m thinking of incorporating into the design:

1. Graphical LCD with 
   • bar graph with a faster refresh rate than the reading
   • dual temperature reading (room and DUT temperature)
2. Battery power with USB-C PD charging
3. Serial Output (with API control)
4. External Trigger Input
5. Trigger Output
6. Analog Voltage Output 
7. Data Logging
   • SD card interface 
   • RTC
8. GPS
9. Capacitive Sensing
   • Buttons 
   • Circular Dial
10. Enclosure with PCB front plate
    • Form-fitting off the shelf
    • 3D printed

As you may have guessed, this is not just one project but multiple small projects in one.
So that’s the plan I have for next year. There are many more projects in the pipeline, but we will get there when we get there. It is going to be an exciting year.

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