The integration method was used to build this capacitance meter where it measures the time it takes a capacitor to charge to calculate the capacitance. An Atmel AVR MCU is utilized in this circuit ...

Building a capacitance meter is a great exercise. If you’re feeling quite safe in your digital-circuit-only life, this will push just far enough out of the comfort zone for you to see there’s nothing ...

The objective of the CapMeter project is to simply measure the capacitance between conductors such as PCB traces, wires, or legs of a capacitor with the functionality of an AVR. The maximum value that ...

Capacitive sensors are found in a wide range of equipment, from consumer electronics to industrial/process control. Touch buttons are increasingly found in lamps and dimmers. Motion detectors can ...

Ceramic capacitors are pretty much the pixie dust of the electronics world. If you sprinkle enough of them on a circuit, everything will work. These ceramic capacitors aren’t the newest and latest ...

Voltage comparators began appearing in single-chip microcontrollers (MCUs) in the late 1990s. At the time, the change was viewed as a simple cost reduction. Comparators required less silicon, while ...