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Second prototype

A project log for Ozirma - near infrared spectrometer

A small infrared spectrometer to help plastic recycling. Dedicated to micro-factories around the world.

vivien-henryVivien Henry 10/27/2021 at 09:340 Comments

In May, 2021, we found time to work on the V2 !

Let's move to a more powerful MCU, a F4 ! Time to learn USB communication as well, to transfer buffers to the computer !

~200 machine and hand mounted components later, we have a new set of PCB

The 1GOhms Transimpedance amplifier DOES work as expected: bandwidth: 1kHz.

As I recall, I have never spend so much time on so little number of components :)

SNR is around 80dB. We can start measuring the incredibly small signals from the photodiode !

(We have in the best case, ~1V of signal, meaning 1nA in the photodiode: noise is 80dB lower than that.)

We are now measuring, after developing a software toolchain (python / pyqt) spectral data !

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