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TCS34725 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 (RGB Colour Sensor + Arduino)

TCS34725 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1: two Arduino UNOs with blue TCS34725 breakouts, the TCS34725 Advance pop-up Sensor page at purple #8000FF reading R 2510 G 0 B 5000 C 7510 and the TEP Serial Monitor in its Simple interface

Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share the new TCS34725 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 . The TCS34725 from ams (TAOS) is a small RGB colour sensor : it measures the red, green, blue and clear light that comes back from an object, and it is best known on the blue breakout board with the bright white LED. With this TCS34725 Sensor Library for Proteus , you pick the object's colour with presets, sliders or a click on a colour palette, and your Arduino reads it over I2C with the same Adafruit TCS34725 library you use on real hardware. Updates TCS34725 Sensor Library for Proteus Latest version: V1.1 (September 2026, this tutorial) Other light sensors: LDR · BH1750 Helping Tools Serial Monitor Advance : a serial terminal window for the UART of your board Seria ...

SHT31 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 (Temperature + Humidity Sensor + Arduino)

SHT31 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1: two Arduino UNOs with purple GY-SHT31-D boards, the SHT31 Advance pop-up Sensor page at FRIDGE with 4.0 C, 85.0 % and a dew point of 1.7 C, and the TEP Serial Monitor in its Simple interface

Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share the new SHT31 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 . The SHT31 from Sensirion is a small digital temperature and humidity sensor , best known on the purple GY-SHT31-D board. With this SHT31 Sensor Library for Proteus , you set the temperature and the humidity with presets, sliders or a click on the thermometer or the water drop, and your Arduino reads them over I2C with the same Adafruit SHT31 library you use on real hardware. Updates SHT31 Sensor Library for Proteus Latest version: V1.1 (September 2026, this tutorial) Other temperature and weather sensors: DHT11 / DHT22 · DS18B20 · BME280 · BMP280 · AHT20 · BME680 · MLX90614 · MAX6675 Helping Tools Serial Monitor Advance : a serial terminal window for the UART of your bo ...

VL53L0X Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 (GY-530 + Arduino)

VL53L0X Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1: two Arduino UNOs with purple GY-VL53L0XV2 boards, the VL53L0X Advance pop-up Sensor page with a white target at 860 mm and the TEP Serial Monitor in its Simple interface

Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share the new VL53L0X Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 . The VL53L0X from ST is a tiny laser time-of-flight distance sensor , best known on the purple GY-530 / GY-VL53L0XV2 board. With this VL53L0X Sensor Library for Proteus , you set the distance and the kind of target with presets, a slider or a click on the distance scale, and your Arduino reads it over I2C with the same Pololu VL53L0X library you use on real hardware. Updates VL53L0X Sensor Library for Proteus Latest version: V1.1 (September 2026, this tutorial) Other distance and motion sensors: Ultrasonic HC-SR04 · JSN-SR04T · Sharp IR · TF-Luna LiDAR · PIR HC-SR501 · RCWL-0516 · IR Obstacle FC-51 Helping Tools Serial Monitor Advance : a serial terminal window for the ...

BMP280 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 (GY-BMP280 + Arduino)

BMP280 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1: two Arduino UNOs with purple GY-BMP280 boards, the BMP280 Advance pop-up on its Sensor page at AIRLINER (756.29 hPa, 2400.1 m) and the TEP Serial Monitor U4 printing Low pressure: below 1000 hPa (LED on)

Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share the new BMP280 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 . The BMP280 is Bosch's small digital barometer : it measures the air pressure and the temperature , and from the pressure your Arduino can work out the altitude . With this BMP280 Sensor Library for Proteus , you set the pressure and the temperature with sliders, presets or a click on an altitude bar, and your Arduino reads them over I2C with the same Adafruit BMP280 library you use on real hardware. Updates BMP280 Sensor Library for Proteus Latest version: V1.1 (September 2026, this tutorial) Other temperature and weather sensors: DHT11 / DHT22 · DS18B20 · BME280 · SHT31 · AHT20 · BME680 · MLX90614 · MAX6675 Helping Tools Serial Monitor Advance : a serial terminal wind ...

From Sensor Event to Human Alert: Designing a Reliable ESP32 Notification Pipeline

From Sensor Event to Human Alert, Designing a Reliable ESP32 Notification Pipeline

An ESP32 can read a sensor and send a message in a few lines of code. That is enough for a bench demo, but it is not enough for a reliable alerting system. The difference appears when the project runs unattended. Sensors bounce, readings hover around thresholds, Wi-Fi drops, and a fault can generate hundreds of repeated events. If every raw event becomes a notification, the engineer quickly learns to ignore the channel. A better design treats messaging as the last stage of an event pipeline: detect the condition, decide whether it matters, then notify a person. Start by Separating Detection From Notification Detection answers a machine question: did something change? Notification answers a human question: does someone need to know about it now? Those questions should not be handled by the ...

MAX30102 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 (Pulse Oximeter + Arduino)

MAX30102 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1: two Arduino UNOs with purple GY-MAX30102 boards, the MAX30102 Advance pop-up Sensor page at REST 60 with 60 BPM, 98 % SpO2 and the PPG pulse wave, and the TEP Serial Monitor printing the pulse estimates

Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share the new MAX30102 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 . The MAX30102 from Maxim (now Analog Devices) is a small pulse oximeter and heart-rate sensor , best known on the purple GY-MAX30102 breakout. With this MAX30102 Sensor Library for Proteus , you set the pulse rate, the SpO2 and the finger with presets and sliders, and your Arduino reads the red and infrared samples over I2C with the same SparkFun MAX3010x library you use on real hardware. Updates MAX30102 Sensor Library for Proteus Latest version: V1.1 (September 2026, this tutorial) Other health sensors: Heart Beat · MLX90614 · Flex Sensor Helping Tools Serial Monitor Advance : a serial terminal window for the UART of your board Serial Monitor Expert : the serial mon ...

MPU6050 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 (GY-521 + Arduino)

MPU6050 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1: two Arduino UNOs with blue GY-521 boards, the MPU6050 Advance pop-up Sensor page at TILT 30 with pitch 29.9 degrees and the TEP Serial Monitor in its Simple interface

Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. Today, I am going to share the new MPU6050 Sensor Library for Proteus V1.1 . The MPU6050 is the popular 6-axis motion sensor: a 3-axis accelerometer , a 3-axis gyroscope and a temperature sensor in one small chip, best known on the blue GY-521 board. With this MPU6050 Sensor Library for Proteus , you tilt, turn and shake the sensor with presets, sliders or a click on its artificial horizon, and your Arduino reads it over I2C with the same Adafruit MPU6050 library you use on real hardware. Updates MPU6050 Sensor Library for Proteus Latest version: V1.1 (September 2026, this tutorial) Other IMU sensors: MPU9250 · ADXL345 · GY-271 Compass Helping Tools Serial Monitor Advance : a serial terminal window for the UART of your board Serial Monitor Exp ...

Designing Custom Aluminum Electronics Enclosures: DFM, Thermal, and EMI Guide

Designing Custom Aluminum Electronics Enclosures, DFM, Thermal, and EMI Guide

Enclosures in modern high-performance embedded systems, industrial IoT devices, and RF hardware are not mere decorative dust covers. The components are becoming increasingly dense with a lot of high-power processing, GaN/SiC power stages, and high-frequency transceivers in a very small area. This type of physical compactness gives rise to severe thermal issues and risk of electromagnetic interference (EMI) that may lower the quality of signals or make the device perform in a throttled way. A bespoke enclosure made out of aluminum can be a multi-functional part of the system providing protection for electronics while allowing dissipation of heat by convection and also acting as an EMI-enclosing Faraday cage in a typical electronics packaging environment. Metal stamped sheet and die casting ...

Why 'It Looks Right' Isn't Good Enough for Precision Optics: The Case for Third-Party Metrology Verification

The Case for Third-Party Metrology Verification

A lens can pass every visual inspection checkpoint and still fail in the field. That gap between "looks acceptable" and "performs as required" is where precision optics projects run into trouble, and it is a problem that optical metrology was specifically designed to address. Visual checks are fast and practical, but they are bounded by what the eye and basic tooling can confirm. Surface cleanliness, obvious chips, and gross dimensional errors are all fair game. What they cannot reliably catch are sub-tolerance deviations in curvature, refractive index variation, or edge detection anomalies that only emerge under controlled measurement conditions. Perspective distortion alone can make a non-conforming surface appear within spec during a manual review. Source Supplier quality control report ...

How Edge Computing Changes the Design of Microcontroller-Based IoT Systems

How Edge Computing Changes the Design of Microcontroller-Based IoT Systems

Microcontroller-based IoT systems are commonly designed around a simple process. Sensors gather data, transmit it to a microcontroller, which then uploads it to the cloud for processing or storage. Edge computing reverses the situation and enables more local processing. This affects hardware selection, firmware development, data handling, security,and operation in the absence of a network connection. Source Processing Data at the Source Consider an ESP32 connected to vibration and temperature sensors on an industrial motor. A basic design could send every measurement to a cloud platform. An edge-oriented design can instead analyze some readings locally. The microcontroller could calculate temperature averages, identify unusual vibration patterns, or detect readings that exceed predefined l ...