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Toshiba TCD1304

A project log for Handheld VNIR Spectrometer

A small portable spectrometer that can be used in the field to collect spectral data.

adamAdam 02/26/2018 at 15:152 Comments

For a number of reasons including product availability and cost I decided to swap out the Sony ILX11B CCD in my spectrometer for a Toshiba TCD1304. Additionally there are a number of other DIY spectrometer projects that use this part making it easier to develop code to drive and read from the CCD. Because of timing requirements on the TCD1304 I can no longer use an Arduino Nano to drive the CCD and plan on using a Teensy 3.6.  

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Adam wrote 06/20/2018 at 14:55 point

Thanks! The progress on the driver has been pretty slow mainly due to a lack of time to devote to it. 

I have't seen the teensy firmware, thanks for sharing, it will probably save me a lot of headaches and hopefully speed up my progress.

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esben rossel wrote 06/18/2018 at 05:24 point

I think you've designed a very elegant spectrometer. How is it going with your tcd1304-driver? You've probably already seen it, but there's a guy over the pjrc-forum who's written a Teensy firmware for this:

https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/52569-TCD1304-with-teensy-3-2

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