Creato Spectrometer

Internship Opportunities
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VIS-NIR Grating Spectrometer: Block Diagram

Line array CCD

sensor
Imaging Lens

Light Collimating Cuvette & Focusing Lens Optical Slit Collimating Diffraction
Source Lens Sample Lens grating

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Opto-Mechanical Layout

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System Block Diagram
AC 230V

AC to DC

Light Source Analog Front Single Board

DC 12V
Driver circuit Arduino
End Computer or PC
Optics Cuvette Optics Grating Detector USB
DC 12V Array

Power supply
module Spectrometer

DC 5V

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PC side application for spectral plots

Features

o Windows application or a web

based application
o Design and implement a control
and data exchange protocol
between embedded system & PC
o Data post processing
o Spectral Plots
o Example implementations:
https://www.effemm2.de/spectragryph/
https://github.com/DreamSourceLab/DS
View
https://www.dreamsourcelab.com/

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Embedded System

TCD1103/TCD1304 Driver
o PWM signal generation using timers
o Synchronization between the control signals & required delays
o Programmable Integration time and exposure time for the sensor

Data Acquisition Module:

o Program the ADC in 16 bit mode to acquire data
o Use DMA for automating data collection
o Automate synchronisation with ADC interrupts and DMA using Event Manager

Communication Protocol & Module:

o Design and implement a control and data exchange protocol between embedded system & PC
o Data conditioning
o Send acquired data to UART using DMA

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Electronics Development

Signal Conditioning and amplification

o Improve the signal acquisition hardware block
o Noise characterisation, filtering and amplification
o Interface with Arduino and possibly migrate to a latest Arduino

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UX & Mechanical

Industrial Design & Mechanical Mounts

o Modify the industrial design – No display and with built in light source
o Optimise mechanical mounts
o Design for manufacturing
o Prototyping and small volume manufacturing
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Product Management & Product Marketing

Story Telling
o Create appealing stories on the use case and the unmet need
o Design Science experiments (Physics & Chemistry)
o Content creation
o Creatives and collaterals

Product Management:
o Product requirements – Document and prioritise the features and publish the same in hackster.io
o Timeline and milestones
o Weekly sprints and updates

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Let us partner to co-develop India’s first open source
spectrometer

Tony Francis
https://www.checkag.com/
tony@checkag.com