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Electronic Vernier Caliper Teardown
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This educational teardown explores the inner workings of a digital caliper, focusing on how it measures distance with high precision. Learners will gain a deep understanding of **capacitive coupling**, observing how staggered electrical signals interact across circuit boards to determine position. The video demonstrates technical analysis using oscilloscopes and Spice modeling to visualize complex waveforms. Beyond the mechanics, you will see a microscopic look at the silicon die (IC) and learn how to interface the device with an Arduino via its hidden serial port. This is an excellent resource for students interested in sensor technology, hardware engineering, and DIY electronics.
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tear down time this is a digital caliper
way of measuring distance quite
precisely if you take all the plastic
housing off you're left with two circuit
boards uh one here which has an encoder
and one here which has a digital
integrated circuit hiding under the
black blob uh and some really
interesting uh details on the artwork of
the device Let's uh take a study of this
and uh see how it works all right so
there's a black aoxy blob which has an
integrated circuit we'll take that off
in a moment but before we do that let's
study what the circuit it's doing it's
driving eight signals along here uh on a
pattern and uh we'll see that that
pattern's pretty significant uh in a
moment they have sort of a stagger on
them and if you flip the circuit board
over you can see that this pattern is uh
replicated on some small fingers here
basically it's driving some signals out
now these are going to couple in
capacitively onto the circuit board
that's behind it and then what happens
is that this uh strip here picks up all
the
signals that's being coupled now as you
can see since it's actually going to
pick up a whole bunch of signals there
going have be some sort of
discrimination so we can figure out
what's going on the thing about the
strip that's fairly interesting there
looks like there's a pattern of two
fingers and if you just highlight it the
fingers on the bottom here under red are
all connected together like the sort of
um uh common potential point to keep
signals from interfering the uh drivers
are all sitting on this side here the
pickup is up here for
signals so looks like it's driving out a
series of signals along these fingers
here and then it's picked up here so
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