A handheld sensor tool with all the sensors I had lying around
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The core is a Teensy4.0 with stereo DAC and headphone amp (under the top board).
I told myself not to build anything this way ever again. But since tools like this usually wind up this way anyhow, I figured I'd not try to make it more permanent than my immediate needs dictate. I'll likely add a casing at some point. Probably when I graft a battery and comms onto it.
The interface is primarily an Adafruit OLED display, and the SX8634 touch board I built several months ago.
The project was updated to link to the source, such as I've posted it. I will likely never post the entire source, so I'm sorry about that. But I will entertain questions.
MASSIVE driver rework. I re-wrote (or am in the process of re-writing) five open drivers for the sensors (TMP102, VEML6075, AMG88xx, TSL2561, BME280). They now run far more efficiently. If they attract use, I will submit PRs or collect them in their own repo. For now they are hard-forked into the repo I've linked. Refactor notes are in the respective header files. I will likely do the same for all of the other drivers, ultimately. But suffice it to say that I free'd up 28% of the CPU time that was being spent waiting on needless I/O in the AMG88xx driver alone.
Added a proper filter/buffer template to accept the data streams for the sensors. Not only does this make it easier to buffer the data, but also to collect elementary information from it (STDEV, min/max, RMS, etc).
I soldered a TSL2561 breakout onto the forward-facing PCB. It runs beautifully. Still need to post a video.
I did! I'd rather have used someone else's stack, but I couldn't find one based on the Teensy4 (which I wanted to become familiar with). I will ultimately post my code and hardware notes that aren't proprietary to my employer.
J. Ian Lindsay
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Alex Hunt
So you basically built a tricorder? Good on you!