reading current of Power Supply

[AmirTheGreat]

Hey everyone,


I'm making a simple power supply with an LM317. I want to be able to read the output voltage and current with an arduino and display it on an lcd or something.
I made a voltage divider so I can do an analog read of 0-5v and calculate the Vout. But Im not sure how to measure the voltage drop of the shunt resistor since i would have to connect the other end to the arduino's ground which would short the whole circuit and what-not.

how would I be able to measure the current?

(wasn't sure whether to post in Microcontrollers/ FPGAs or Projects/Designs so I apologize for spamming the Beginners Forum.)

[Monkeh]

Use a low-side shunt.

[AmirTheGreat]

Thanks for your advice.
is there any improvements I could make?
I will add capacitors by the way

[Rerouter]

one big one, move the lm317's feedback network to the other side of the current shunt, this ensures its voltage drop does not matter