We use tachometer in our industry. So Like to make some tachometer to check it in home with available resource.
Step 1: Materails Required
1) Linkit one Board with Battery.
2) Infra red LED and Photo Diode – 1no.
3) 16X2 Serial LCD display.
4) 270 ohms Resister – 1No.
5) 33K Resister – 1No.
6) 1K Trim pot.
7) PCB puch button 1 No
8) Double Side Tape.
9) Wires, Soldering Iron lead and Paste
10) old Sketch pen.
Step 2: Sensor Circuit
1) Above is the sensor Circuit Diagram.
2) Cut a small piece of PCB and Soldered the Components as Per diagram.
3) Cut the Sketch Pen body for two smalls tubes.
4) use it to separate the IR LED and Photo Diode.
5) Fix it using Hot Glue Gun.
6) Another Small Circuit For Digital Input using a Push Button and 220 Ohms Resister.
7) Solder a Female PCB connector in the Sensor board.
8) Solder a Male PCB connector in the Switch Board.
9) Solder four wires VCC, GND, Sensor Signal, Push Button Wire in the Sensor PCB.
10) Join the Male connector to Sensor Board Female Connector.
Step 3: Make a Shield
1) Plug in male connector to the Link it one (to required pins only, For my future use i solder all pins).
2) Join Plain PCB Over it.
3) Solder the pins.
4) Solder the sensor pin wires as follows
a ) Black – GND
b) Red – VCC 5V
c) Blue – A0 Analog input
d) Yellow – 12 Digital Input
5) Solder the Serial LCD Display
a) Black – GND
b) Brown – VCC 5V
c) Red – 1 Tx of the Serial1.
6) Connect the Battery.
All done in circuit part
Step 4: Make It Portable
Using double Side Sticker Paste the Battery below the Linkit one board. Paste LCD above the PCB over Linkit one Board. Now u have indicator and a sensor probe.
Source: Linkit One- Portable Tachometer Noncontact