The MPX5100 series piezoresistive transducer is a state-of-the-art monolithic silicon pressure sensor designed for a wide range of applications, but particularly it is convenient to interface to microcontroller or microprocessor with A/D inputs. This is thin-film metallization, and bipolar processing to provide an accurate, high level analog output signal that is proportional to the applied pressure. More details can be found here MPXV5100
This sensor measures differential pressure comparing to atmospheric so when there is no pressure applied it shows 0kPa;
I was converting ADC value to pressure using this formula:
Pressure((((adc+0.3)/255)-0.04)/0.009); I didn’t make too much testing to tune it, I just calibrated it to zero by adding to ADC 0.3 value.
Here I will make example interfacing it to atmega8. Code is written in C using WINAVR toolkit and AVRLIB library. As you will see coding with AVLIB is very simple, just few lines, but compiled code is not very effective and takes lots of memory.
And here what results did I get:
Testing my lungs by blowing air to the straw. You can see 10 kPa.
Here I added archived demo WINAVR project. You can download and test it by your own.
Have fun.MPXV5100 pressure sensor to Atmega8
Hey, thanks so much.
I think I may have already commented on your great articles, but again I really appreciate that you’ve done so much.
However I can’t see the pinout on the MPXV5100. I’m currently trying to implement a water pressure sensor and hope NOT to use op-amps.
Thanks again for your great work (even if some people don’t comment).
Cheers, Phil.
Thanks Phil,
Actually Pinout of MPXV5100 is simple – only three pins are used: Pin2 – VCC, Pin3 – GND and Pin4 – Vout. Other pins (1,5,6,7,8) are not connected. See datasheet.
In my opinion If your pressure is ranging near full scale, then you don’t need op amp as its output voltage will be in range 0 to VCC. Of course if Water pressure will reach like 5% of a full range, then you might want to add op amp with gain 20 in order to extend Vout value and resolution same way.
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Hello,
Thanks you for this great project.
I like to use your source files for my sound level detection, but every time I clean and rebuild, it gives this error
No rule to make target `slegis.elf’, needed by `elf’. Stop.
HI phil and science proj….
im also actually working on water pressure sensor and with the help of the output im tryin to control the water pump….
can u help me with this pls??
and i don require an lcd output..
thnx in advance..!
Hi
Could you post the assembler files? I’d appreciate it very much. thanks!
hello sir,
can u plz tell me how do u get that formula..
i am just confused about that///////