NYC Hackathon DIY Current Sensors

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Get some wire

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get some ferrous, circular materials, I used the tops of pins

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cut a small insicion in the side

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cut out centers, they don’t have to be even

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wrap the circles with a wire, about 60 turns each

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get 6 resistors, I used 100k resistors

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fold over their legs

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and cut off the excess

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solder two resistors to one end of the wire coil

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you can wrap them around all sorts of things found around the house

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attach a wire to each resistor and one to the other end of the wire

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get an xbee and feed it 3.3v dc

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NOTE! Do not cross power and ground cables on your circuit!

cuircuit graciously borrowed from: http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/28

put the pin into pin one on the xbee, one of the resistor wires to power, the other to ground

the other xbee will relay messages the internet

the arduino code can be downloaded here

May 23, 2010 | Comments Off  Tags: , ,