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Interfacing Hall Effect sensor with Arduino

Easy way to interface Hall Effect sensor to be used later for proximity sensing, speed measuring and switching

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Interfacing Hall Effect sensor with Arduino

Things used in this project

Hardware components

DigitSpace Hall Effect sensor

Arduino UNO

Story

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This is a fast and straightway tutorial on how to interface you Hall-Effect sensor with Arduino board, here I’m using Arduino UNO as usual. So the Hall-Effect is the production of a voltage difference (the Hall voltage) across an electrical conductor, transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field perpendicular to the current.Here in the media below you can see a simple visualisation of the effect (Source: Wikipedia):

This effect is exploited to detect position, speed, current and proximity sensing, today we gonna use it with a magnet, to detect the magnetic field and check the values given by the sensor.

In the picture below you can see the sensor I’m using, it’s a KY-024, and as you can see that board is pretty much common, it’s used for different sensors.

Get KY-024 Module

The module is powered by 5V and has 2 outputs, one is Analog and its DC offset can be set using the trimmer potentiometer, and there’s a Digital output that can be either HIGH or LOW depending on the magnetic field strength and the threshold you’ve set using the trimmer potentiometer.

Wiring

Wiring can be found below.

The wiring is easy, the module can be powered using 5V/GND, then there are 2 outputs wired with Analog/Digital pins.

Codes

Code can be found below

One easy code has been made and it’s just for test, it can display the Analog and Digital output values on the Serial monitor, and of course those two values can be exploited in your project based on this module.

Test

So here in the test as I didn’t have a straight magnet, I used a speaker magnet which has a radial magnetic field, which means that there’s a pole on the outside circle and one on the inside circle, and here I just put the sensor on some places of the magnet.

(Click to expand) The values are around 512 which is the middle of the Arduino ADC on standby mode

(Click to expand) Here I’m putting the sensor on the outside part of the magnet and the LED lights up, but the analog value drops down to around 470

(Click to expand) On the middle of the speaker magnet the LED is turned off and the analog value is Up to 620

And don’t forget that the Digital output threshold can be set by the trimmer potentiometer, it can set the DC offset of the Analog output aswell.

Code

Hall_Effect_Test.ino

/* This code is to be used with KY-024 Hall effect sensor
 * It displays both Analog and Digital values given by the sensor
 * Refer to www.surtrtech.com for more details
 */

#define Hall_Sensor A0          //A0 used with analog output, D2 with digital output
#define Hall_Sensor_D 2

int Val1=0,Val2=0;             //Here you can store both values, the Val2 can be boolean


void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  pinMode(Hall_Sensor_D,INPUT);
 

}

void loop() {
  
   Val1=analogRead(Hall_Sensor);            //We read both values and display them raw on the serial monitor
   Serial.print(Val1);
   Val2=digitalRead(Hall_Sensor_D);
   Serial.print("\t");
   Serial.println(Val2);
}

Credits

SurtrTech

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Interfacing Hall Effect sensor with Arduino

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Story

Wiring

Codes

Test

Schematics

wiring_1_bb_Yg5YBPWTMq.png

Code

Hall_Effect_Test.ino

Credits

SurtrTech

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Interfacing Hall Effect sensor with Arduino

Interfacing Hall Effect sensor with Arduino

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Story

Wiring

Codes

Test

Schematics

wiring_1_bb_Yg5YBPWTMq.png

Code

Hall_Effect_Test.ino

Credits

SurtrTech

Comments

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