Snap Circuits® - Snapino Capacitance Meter

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Overview

What Are Snap Circuits?

Snap Circuits makes learning electronics easy and fun! Learn how to integrate Snap Circuits with your hardware. Fun for Kids!

Introductory Project

If you have not completed the introductory project, please see Snap Circuits - Introduction. This project also contains a complete index of Snap Circuit projects.

Let's Get Started

Project Objective

This experiment will demonstrate the Arduino Capacitance Meter and RC Time Constants project found at https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/CapacitanceMeter.

Building the Circuit

The minimum set requirement for this project is SC-300 and the Snapino. Build the following circuit by following the directions in the PDF file:

Scroll down to see and download the PDF file containing complete build instructions (the PDF file can also be found in the GitHub repository).

Completed Circuit

How this Works

The Circuit

For a complete description of this project see the Arduino tutorial "Capacitance Meter and RC Time Constants" at https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/CapacitanceMeter.

The Software

The sketch for this project can be found in the Snap Circuits repository or on the Arduino tutorial site (link above).