January 2022: MikroElektronika (MIKROE), the embedded solutions company that dramatically cuts development time by providing innovative hardware and software products based on proven standards, has launched Turbidity Click – a new member of its +1000-strong Click family of peripheral development boards. Turbidity describes the cloudiness of a fluid due to small particles and is a key test of water quality.
Click boards are based on the 16-pin open source mikroBUS™ standard for sockets on a development board invented by MIKROE. They enable design engineers to change peripherals easily, cutting months off development time. Turbidity Click is an adapter Click board™, used to interface a compatible turbidity sensor with the host MCU. The board features a 1×3 2.5mm connector suitable for connecting the sensor via a 15cm 3-wire male-to-male cable, enabling users to upgrade and try different sensors. The sensors can also measure temperature as well as turbidity.
The analogue output voltage of the turbidity sensor can be converted to a digital value using MCP3221, a successive approximation A/D converter with a 12-bit resolution from Microchip, using a 2-wire I2C compatible interface. Turbidity Click comes equipped with a library containing easy-to-use functions and an example code that can be used, as a reference, for further development.
Comments Nebojsa Matic, CEO at MIKROE: “Water quality is, of course, essential to good health, so expediting the development of instruments that measurement of turbidity is a significant step to improve worldwide living conditions.”
MIKROE releases a new Click board nearly every day at 10am, and many leading microcontroller companies including Microchip, NXP, Infineon, Dialog, STM, Analog Devices Renesas and Toshiba now include the mikroBUS socket on their development boards. Turbidity Click is available separately or as part of a bundle for just $19.50. For more information about MIKROE’s full range of over 1000 Click peripheral boards, visit www.mikroe.com/click.
About MikroElektronika
MikroElektronika (MIKROE) is committed to changing the embedded electronics industry through the use of industry standard hardware and software solutions. In 2011, the company invented the mikroBUS™ development socket standard and the compact Click Boards that use the standard to dramatically cut development time. Now the company offers 1000 Click Boards – ten times more than competitors – and the mikroBUS standard is included by leading microcontroller companies such as Microchip, Renesas and Toshiba on their development boards. SiBRAIN is MIKROE’s last standard, for MCU development add-on boards and sockets. MikroElektronika also makes the world’s widest range of compilers and additionally provides development environments, development boards, smart displays and programmers and debuggers.
