{"id":18141,"date":"2016-12-19T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=18141"},"modified":"2021-06-11T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:59:31","slug":"project-profile-pcb-ruler-level-with-beaglebone-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/project-profile-pcb-ruler-level-with-beaglebone-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Profile: PCB Ruler Level With BeagleBone Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Ella has been working on a project around the office that looks pretty cool. She has made it so one of the PCB Rulers lights up an LED when held level!<\/p>\n<p>This simple but useful tool is just one of the many <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/101-ways-to-use-the-pcb-ruler\/\">capabilities <\/a>of the PCB Ruler.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18147\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18147 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/w-600x450.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-wp-pid=\"18147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/w-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/w-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/w.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/w-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A work in progress&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Below is the list of materials she used for this project:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardware:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/digilent-pcb-ruler\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">PCB Ruler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/labview-physical-computing-kit-for-beaglebone-black\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">BeagleBone Black<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-gyro-3-axis-digital-gyroscope\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">PmodGYRO<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LED (of any color)<\/li>\n<li>Soldering Iron<\/li>\n<li>(2) 4.7 kohm resistors<\/li>\n<li><strong>Software:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/labview-home-bundle\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">LabVIEW 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labviewmakerhub.com\/doku.php?id=libraries:linx:start\" rel=\"nofollow\">LINX 3.0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I inquired with her about how it was all going to work, and she explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-gyro-3-axis-digital-gyroscope\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">PmodGYRO<\/a> runs using I2C communication protocol. All you need is one column on the J2 pin out on the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-gyro-3-axis-digital-gyroscope\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">PmodGYRO<\/a> &#8211; VCC, GND, SDA and SCL. The <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-gyro-3-axis-digital-gyroscope\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pmod<\/a> is powered with 3.3V, and I use two, 4.7Kohm pull-up resistors to pull the SDA and SCL lines to 3.3V.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the build itself, she started by assembling the hardware then moved on to the software using LabVIEW and LINX. You can see her circuit diagram below, and check out her Instructable for detailed instructions and to download the LabVIEW code!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18144\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FXPCM0AIU5NDQC1.MEDIUM-600x415.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" data-wp-pid=\"18144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FXPCM0AIU5NDQC1.MEDIUM-600x415.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FXPCM0AIU5NDQC1.MEDIUM.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the update\u00a0where she expands upon the project&#8230; with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/PCB-Ruler-Sonar-Extension\/\">sonar capabilities!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-18141 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='18141' data-nonce='87acbb1af5' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-18141 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-18141 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='18141' data-nonce='87acbb1af5' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-18141 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-18141 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out a brief project profile on how to make your own handy DIY level!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":18146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1561],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4485],"class_list":["post-18141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/saona.jpg","authors":[{"term_id":4485,"user_id":36,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mirandamay7","display_name":"Miranda Hansen","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bcab037c32924b9f9b3ca4898e179f2764cb7d9a82aa2bd475170c8aaa884e1c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18141"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=18141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}