Here's the next extra credit:  do it without cutting open the fuel tank,
since welding fuel tanks back together (especially if they're aluminum)
isn't exactly the focus of most electronics hobbyists. (;

--Brendan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pic Dude" <picdude@AVN-TECH.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Fuel tank sensor / real world solutions


> Get some pressure sensors at various points along the
> bottom of the tank and a multi-axis accelerometer. Run
> those into a PIC where you can actively calculate the
> motion of the fuel at any point in time and reproduce
> its behaviour, and hence derive it's volume.
>
> Thinking outside the box, about what's happening inside
> the box.  :-)
>
> Extra credit if you do it with a 16F84 and no math chip.
>
> Cheers,
> -Neil.

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