This week I designed (and ordered) two encoders built around the LDC1101, one is linear and one is rotary. Rather than try and integrate everything with an MCU at this stage, I went ahead and just broke out all of the necessary communication pins, similar to my last board, but this time with the LC tank fully integrated. Not a whole lot to say here until the boards come in and I can test them. In the meantime I have been searching for a suitable ADC replacement for the HX711 back over on the dynamometer project. It would be great to have an infrastructure for high resolution + gain analog signal measurement for a number of projects, this one included potentially.
## HTMSTMAA Week 8 - 4/22/21
This week I managed to get the LDC1101 configured and up and running, and in the process switched over to an [STM32L432KC](https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32l432kc.html) in Nucleo form, which is a cortex M4 clocked at 80 MHz with an FPU, and most importantly gives straightforward access to timer peripherals (my struggle last week was that after configuring a timer on the Feather M4, it seemed to promply get overwritten by Arduino's USB peripheral). Ultimately this will make more sense considering I would like to integrate this sensor into a closed loop stepper driver that I also built on ST hardware.
