{"id":9316,"date":"2014-10-16T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=9316"},"modified":"2014-10-16T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:07:12","slug":"usb-tweezers-for-zrlc-measurements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/usb-tweezers-for-zrlc-measurements\/","title":{"rendered":"USB Tweezers for ZRLC measurements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ajoyraman.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ajoy Raman&#8217;s<\/a> new project on Instructable is about making a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/USB-ZRLC-TWEEZERS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>low-cost hand-held tweezers<\/strong><\/a> to meause R, L, C, and Z (complex impedance). The project uses the TI&#8217;s TMS320F28027 micro-controller, an 8-port-analog-switch ADG714 from Analog Devices and the MCP6022 rail-to-rail dual Opamp IC. The ZLRC measurements are sent to a PC\u00a0through an USB port using an USB-to-TTL converter. He also developed a GUI application for the PC end to display the results.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9317\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9317\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9317\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9317\" alt=\"USB tweezers for ZRLC measurements\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/twizers.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/twizers.jpg 580w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/twizers-550x492.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USB tweezers for ZRLC measurements<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajoy Raman&#8217;s new project on Instructable is about making a low-cost hand-held tweezers to meause R, L, C, and Z (complex impedance). The project uses the TI&#8217;s TMS320F28027 micro-controller, an 8-port-analog-switch ADG714 from Analog Devices and the MCP6022 rail-to-rail dual Opamp IC. The ZLRC measurements are sent to a PC\u00a0through an USB port using an USB-to-TTL converter. He also developed a GUI application for the PC end to display the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[936,934,935],"class_list":["post-9316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-texas-instruments","tag-rlc-meter","tag-tms320f28027","tag-usb-meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9318,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions\/9318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}