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You want to set up a testbench at home, so what can you get for $1500 or less in scopes these days? Quite a bit, as it turns out. The question came up after chatting with Tektronix about its recently ...

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Abstract: In many industrial applications, digits on instrument display need to be automatically identified. In this paper, we propose a new feature extraction method based on non-luminous digital ...

Hall sensors are easy to wire, as they have no polarity. Simply connect the sensor's signal wire to any digital input on your ECU. Connect the ground pin to a sensor ground on the ECU, and the power ...