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    • RE: Bosch BME680 Sensor

      I am dealing with these types of sensors on a professional level so, I thought I could add to your experiments.
      As mentioned above these sensors are very sensitive to organic compounds, which get emitted by silicon bases materials.

      This can go as far as tainting the sensors completely and rendering them useless. I remember a oversized project to qualify new glues for the whole production, after having to scrap 5k+ sensors because of tainting. They said the sensors where “poisoned” 😊

      A standard approach is to get rid of some residual compounds is to heat the sensor to a higher temperature to get rid of these compounds, then lowering the temp. to get a reading.

      This is all not low power application but I guess BOSCH is going this approach. The reason why you get different resistive values after you experimented with preheat phase times, seems to me as a typical finding after a longer heating phases, which “cleaned” the sensor.
      The reason why you get higher values with longer preheat times is weird though. Maybe they use the known thermal mass of the sensor to estimate the die temperature from the heating time with known power. But this would be a very crude approach, but would explain your results. The longer the preheat phase, the hotter the senor, changing your results.

      posted in My Project
      mr_red
      mr_red
    • RE: 💬 Light and shock sensor | nRF52840 | MySensors

      Normally the antennas are tuned for "no cutout" but also no GND-Fill. The datasheet gives some info: "... It is necessary to ensure that the antenna is exposed, preferably vertically upward"...avoiud traces underneath the module."
      With the SMD-modules of the nrf24l01 I tried the 3 options: No pcb, with empty pcb and with traces and gndfill (f*ckup on my part).
      Results where: No difference with no PCB or empty PCB, Superbad with traces or GND Fill.
      The PCB-trace antennas are much more effected by traces and cables in the vicinity.

      Some manufactureres even specify detailed the PCB zones. Check the Bluegiga BLE121LR Datasheet Page 23 for some nice graphs and pictures.
      This considerations should also apply to other 2.4ghz antennas (not pcb-antennas). So Maybe a GND PLane with via stiching?

      https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/data-sheets/BLE121LR-DataSheet.pdf

      posted in OpenHardware.io
      mr_red
      mr_red
    • RE: nRF5 action!

      @Omemanti Good find about the BMP to recover the Ebyte module. Can you point me to an aliexpress link? "stm32" "bluepill" are not the magic chinese keywords..

      posted in My Project
      mr_red
      mr_red
    • RE: nRF5 action!

      @Calvin-Khung Hi Calvin, I read your comments here and on Stackoverflow/exchange. I honestly think that you dont have the right skills to do this. The exploited vulnerability in the blog is quite sofisticated. I think you have to start getting your debugger configured correctly. Your say you have an st-link v2 which lets me to belive you have a cheap chinese clone.
      This clone has not all debugging features included, as you might saw in my posts earlier. You are much better of with a Black magic probe or a J-Link.
      Have you got a halted NRF51 yet?

      posted in My Project
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      mr_red