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PowerDown Challenge Kit

Team Members: Dave Buckler, Evan Cernea, and Chris Salzano For Professor Allison Lassiter’s class at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, we developed a prototype of a current sensor to help people better understand their household energy usage. The Problem Most people use electricity in their homes without any sense of how much energy […]

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Creating a non-invasive current sensor

In this tutorial, we will be setting up a non-invasive current sensor to measure current flow. Material List One Arduino Uno One Soderless Breadboard One 10uF capacitor Two 10k Ω resistors One 33 Ω resistor One Non-Invasive Current Sensor rated at 100A Wire Stripper or 3.5 mm audio jack Optional: 9V battery connected to Arduino […]