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UCI ANTEATER RACING
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Ronald P.Kessler, Ph.D.
Advisor, UCI Race Car Engineering Teams
Retired Professor, Santiago Canyon College

Featured Items

UCI racing VIDEOS from Nebraska in 2018.
Sensor signaling processing with RC filters (Updated 3/24/2022)
Using filters to clean up knock sensor signals.
PICO automotive lab scope
Multisim Circuit Simulator

Visual Studio Resources

Get Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition
My Intro to Programming EBook
Arduino IDE for VS 2022 (Visual Micro)
SQL 2016 Express
SQL Server Management Studio 2017
Convert images to icons
ASCII Table
XML Demo (Read/write your settings to xml file)

IOT & Cloud Programming

Windows 10 Featured projects for Arduino and Raspberry Pi
HACKSTER IOT PROJECTS
- My remote control garage door opener showcased on Hackster IOT Project is here
- Arduino Weather Station on Hackster IOT
Cloud Computing: My ASP MVC Quick Start

Automotive Sensors & Diagnostics

Announcements Updated 9/23/2023
The Best way to learn engineering by Jeremy Fielding Video

EV Team
EV CONTROL SAFETY CIRCUIT & ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Introduction to Comparators & Relay Drivers LM393 LDR Driver LM393 Darlington Pair Relay Driver Without Hysteresis LM393 WITH Hysteresis circuit With Hysteresis Scope Image LM393 Datasheet Practical applications My Pre-Charge Motor Circuit demo I showed in class. Common Op-Amp circuits (LM741) Buffer Comparator Inverting Amp Non-Inverting Amp Diode Bridge as a switch (charge & discharge capacitor) Transistor Biasing Step by Step Elithion Battery Managment Systems Resources Elithion Pre-Charge Circuit Article AllTrax Article on EV contactors, resistors & diodes. (Thanks to Phil Chipman for sending this in.)
Mini Baja Team 2022-2023
2023 Results 2019 Video highlights!
RESOURCES How CVTs work animation BAJA Crankshaft Position Sensor Analysis Report Traditional vs Modern Ignition Systems Report

Unit Testing & Data Acquisition

Nissan 240SX Instrument Cluster Demo
- TachDemo Video
- Tach Test Setup Video
- Signal Generator Setup

Automating unit tests
- Short video for QV's tach.

Telemetry & Communication Protocols

Serial Communication
- Protocol comparison
Adafruit 900MHz LoRa (Long Range) Radios
- 1-Transmitter Demo Code
- 2-Receiver Demo Code
CAN-BUS Facts & Demo Board
- Layout
  - Each node must be within 30cm of the bus cable.
  - 1mb/sec is good for up to 40 meters.
- Hall Sensor (RPM)
- Arduino Receiver Code (2/8/2019)
- Arduino Transmitter Code (2/8/2019)
My CANBUS Reports: Using a Logic Analyzer
- 1-My CANBUS Communications Article
- 2-Serial communications: Bitshifting report
- 3-Decoding multiple sensor readings
- 4-Demo Board Decoded Scope Images
My Jeep RPM images

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