I’m evaluating software to measure an impact force using a force sensor and an accelerometer to measure the deceleration. I have a DigiDaq Digitize ICP® Sensors | Model 485B39 and a PCB 208C05 Force Sensor. From a PCB associated website, it says that that the Audacity software can be used to record the impact force. Is there anyone out there that could point me in the right direction to configure the software? This can be with either a Mac or Windows based OS. Thank you!!!
I don’t know anything about those sensors, but there’s something to be aware of -
Your program runs in a loop and it takes some time, usually milliseconds or microseconds depending on what it’s doing.
It’s not reading continuously. It can only read when it comes-around to the read and it might miss the impact or the maximum impact.
Sometimes an interrupt helps, if your sensors can trigger an interrupt. Then you can read “immediately” after the interrupt with less delay.
Or you might be able to run in a “fast loop” that doesn’t do much else. Then if you get a “meaningful” reading you can temporarily do any additional processing that’s needed.
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