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We're building a bicycle product involving loadcells, and one of the issues with them is that strain gauges typically have pretty low resistance. As we need readings at a relatively high sample rate (measuring pedalling dynamics) it's a lot of fun waking up loadcells, getting the sigma delta ADCS to get nicely-settled 24-bit results across multiple channels and synchronising the whole thing across 4 separate sensor nodes. Basically we have to pedaL and chew minimal joules at the same time.

Latest hardware has coulomb counters to keep track of charge state; you probably already know it but the nPM1100 has some good press.

* https://www.nordicsemi.com/products/npm1100




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