UCI ANTEATER RACING
Race Car Engineering Class
Ronald
P.Kessler, Ph.D.
Advisor, UCI Race Car Engineering
Teams
Retired Professor, Santiago Canyon
College
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| Visual Studio
& Arduino Resources |
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IOT & Cloud Programming |
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Automotive Sensors & Diagnostics |
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Announcements
Updated
3/31/2025 |
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HONDA service
manual example pages. This Pdf
will give you some ideas on documenting
your drawings.
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New:
BAJA Thermocouple test results and
demo. See Unit Testing (right
column).
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New
"Working with cables/wiring" section
under EV/Solar.
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See my notes on ESP32 and CANBUS
under Telemetry & Communication
(right hand column).
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Added "getting started with Multisim"
link in Featured Items
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New test using Capacitive Proximity
Sensor to detect liquid inside a
container without making contact.
Baja fuel tank gauge solution?
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EV & SOLAR Teams |
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SAFETY CIRCUIT & ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
- Automotive Circuits & Components
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Working with cables/wiring
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Mini Baja Team 2023-2025 |
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©2025 by Ronald P. Kessler, Ph.D.
Contact me at
Ron.Kessler@UCI.EDU
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Unit Testing, Diagnostics, & Data Acquisition |
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Capacitive Proximity Sensors can be
used to detect levels of liquid in a container. I have
these on the outside of my RV holding tanks to detect
how full waste water tanks are. This info is sent to the
LCD controller screen via CANBUS.
Sensitive from 0-18mm.
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Telemetry &
Communication Protocols |
- Serial
Communication
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Adafruit
900MHz LoRa (Long Range) Radios
- CAN-BUS & ESP32 Controllers
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Layout
- Each node must be within 30cm of the bus
cable.
- 1mb/sec is good for up to 40 meters.
- Not sll ESP32's support CANBUS but All
ESP32-WROOM chips do. They have an integrated Can
controller but DO NOT HAVE A TRANSCEIVER.
As such, we do not need SPI and the MCP2515 board.
We can use a
TJA1050 Transceiver
module and connect UTP wires between the MCU and
TJA1050!!
- Simple CAN
transmitter code
for testing
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Hall Sensor (RPM)
- Arduino
Receiver Code
(2/8/2019)
- Arduino
Transmitter Code
(2/8/2019)
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My CANBUS Reports: Using a Logic Analyzer
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