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Getting to grips with some real ADC readings

A project log for dayTime

sync your microcontroller to the diurnal cycle using sensor data

simon-merrettSimon Merrett 04/25/2021 at 21:310 Comments

This is a placeholder log which I promise to expand on later. For anyone keen to get their hands on the data now, please find it at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h3Hqskle6RSyK4i3jdwdvxAR0Pji38RVqOuHzXzzaEc/edit?usp=sharing

Where you can find RAW 8 bit ADC readings from my Itsybitsy M4 datalogger. I have a year of readings but they are not all nicely spliced together - yet. That will come. 

For now, you can see from this graph that we have some lovely data with the days and nights clearly differentiable:

The real world response of the LDR voltage divider turned out to be much better than the simulated ADC (well, converted from solar radiation data)! 

A couple of other notable observations until I come back and expand this log:

Back soon to expand on this data and the implications for syncing our microcontrollers to the rotation of our planet!

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