Water Storage Monitoring in New Mexico
Developing a satellite modem-based water level monitoring system in collaboration with Grass Nomads LLC and supported by the LOR Foundation.
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Developing a satellite modem-based water level monitoring system in collaboration with Grass Nomads LLC and supported by the LOR Foundation.
Updated: 2024-06-11Developing an easy-to-assemble, low-cost bike trailer design, in collaboration with the Somerville Bike Kitchen.
Updated: 2024-05-14Developing an easy-to-assemble cart for transporting standard vegetable containers on small farms, in collaboration with the Young Farmer Network.
Updated: 2024-03-10DIY techniques for filtering contaminants from drinking water, based on the designs by Aqueous Solutions and the work of Dr. Josh Kearns.
Updated: 2024-02-28Developing DIY greenhouse temperature monitoring and control systems in collaboration with Smithereen Farm.
Updated: 2024-01-31Designing a DIY UV Spectrophotometer
Updated: 2024-10-08Designs for off-grid heating systems
Updated: 2024-10-08Notes on Ham Radio
Updated: 2024-10-07Designing a DIY UV Spectrophotometer
Updated: 2024-10-07DIY ways of measuring fitness over time
Updated: 2024-06-05With special relevance to homeschooling
Updated: 2024-05-27Paper making
Updated: 2024-03-24Designing a DIY farm cart.
Updated: 2024-03-08Collecting resources on non-fossil-fuel mechanical devices of yesteryear.
Updated: 2024-02-02Notes on inexpensive CO2 monitoring options
Updated: 2024-01-29Building DIY, mobile hoop houses, high tunnels, and cold frames.
Updated: 2024-01-29Designs for bike trailers, wheelbarrows, etc.
Updated: 2024-01-28Remote temp and depth sensor transmitting over lora and satellite radio
Updated: 2023-06-13DIY cob oven building
Updated: 2023-06-10Notes on wireless montioring (focused on LoRa).
Updated: 2023-05-26Greenhouse monitoring and temp control at Smithereen Farm.
Updated: 2023-04-25Using local radio relay to monitor and control solar pumps
Updated: 2023-04-24Notes on wind-powered, water-based transport.
Updated: 2023-03-31Developing field school curricula.
Updated: 2023-03-06Hobby rocketry radio telemetry -- perhaps useful for assessing radio tower height requirements.
Updated: 2022-12-19Notes on the accuracy of various approaches to COVID-19 testing.
Updated: 2022-12-11Low-power devices that can mutually geo-locate off-grid.
Updated: 2022-11-27Background, ideas, resources for teaching & engagement
Updated: 2022-11-27Tools and techniques for signal / waveform analysis
Updated: 2022-11-27General notes on radio design, builds
Updated: 2022-11-27Designs for off-grid power generation
Updated: 2022-11-27Notes on experiments with RNode / Signal / APRS
Updated: 2022-11-27Building radio nodes with an eye towards easy assembly and easy sourcing of parts.
Updated: 2022-11-27Off-grid gps navigation
Updated: 2022-11-27Designs and calculations around collective food self-provisioning
Updated: 2022-11-27Developing freezer sensors for use in food storage
Updated: 2022-11-27Techniques for measuring water flow
Updated: 2022-11-27General notes on electronics and related equipment
Updated: 2022-11-27Notes / papers / references regarding COVID-19 pandemic
Updated: 2022-11-27Designs for off-grid cooking
Updated: 2022-11-27Notes on experiments with maps
Updated: 2021-11-07Off-grid (battery-powered) techniques for welding
Updated: 2021-10-11Notes on development of temperature monitors for cold storage on farms.
Updated: 2021-09-30Notes on designs for gravity-powered outdoor fans and lights
Updated: 2021-08-15Ideas and history around convening school outdoors
Updated: 2021-08-12Sanitation options to facilite outdoor gatherings during a pandemic
Updated: 2021-08-11Notes on DIY / tarp shelters for outdoor gatherings
Updated: 2021-07-27Notes on the Corsi / Rosenthal / Comparetto DIY Air Purifier design -- build instructions, performance evaluation, references
Updated: 2021-07-27Notes on the Corsi / Rosenthal / Comparetto DIY Air Purifier design -- build instructions, performance evaluation, references
Updated: 2021-07-27Notes on technology and analysis related to soil irrigation
Updated: 2021-03-28Flood / tide sensor prototyping
Updated: 2021-01-18Load scale measurements using FOS software + hardware
Updated: 2020-12-23Experiments in software defined radio.
Updated: 2020-12-05Reserach into compressed air energy storage
Updated: 2020-11-25Omnivore design for a multi-purpose buck/boost battery system
Updated: 2020-11-19Experiments with Bluetooth microcontrollers
Updated: 2020-11-15Setting up a (low power?) E-Ink display with a micro
Updated: 2020-11-08Instructions for End-to-End Greenhouse monitoring stack
Updated: 2020-11-02P2P Farm server prototyping
Updated: 2020-10-20Notes on setting up microcontrollers as HID devices
Updated: 2020-10-18Notes on setting up podcasting infrastructure
Updated: 2020-10-17Experiments with the Hyper Protocol
Updated: 2020-10-08Greenhouse monitoring electronics at Vale da Lama
Updated: 2020-10-06Notes on development of DIY conductivity sensors
Updated: 2020-10-01Notes on setting up a Heltec device.
Updated: 2020-09-24Test of Radiohead mesh networking functionality.
Updated: 2020-09-14Prototyping the Mothbot -- an Arduino-compatible LoRa node for remote monitoring applications.
Updated: 2020-09-01Using the Meshtastic Python API to perform some basic range tests of the Meshtastic system at Newfound Lake in Bristol, NH.
Updated: 2020-08-30Seeing what low current sleep modes are possible with various hardware designs.
Updated: 2020-08-29Collecting tools for estimating line-of-sight locations based on topography.
Updated: 2020-08-27How to set up a custom database directory location for Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) (enabling e.g. storage of SSB on a portable drive).
Updated: 2020-08-26Experiments with the Radiohead RHMesh approach.
Updated: 2020-08-22Revising the Quahog ESP32 + LoRa circuit
Updated: 2020-08-21Experimenting with the Meshtastic system for Android + Bluetooth + LoRa mesh networking.
Updated: 2020-08-03Radio + WiFi + Ultrasonic tide monitoring.
Updated: 2020-07-17Setting up an "off-grid" greenhouse monitoring system.
Updated: 2020-04-13Designing a flood alert and mapping system.
Updated: 2020-04-13Prototyping a LoRa- and wifi-based system for Soil moisture and temperature, as well as ambient temperature humidty and soil temperture inside a greenhouse.
Updated: 2020-04-12Developing a Free and Open Source LoRa-based system (software, hardware); prototyping a remote node for capturing relaying data from an SDI-12 - based soil moisture sensor.
Updated: 2020-03-21(With Dave Sprague and friends in Belfast, ME -- water level via Radio + WiFi + pressure sensor.
Updated: 2020-02-17Developing a system for capturing soil moisture measurements from a remote field site, using wifi, LoRa, and cellular communications.
Updated: 2019-07-24UMass Amherst Physics STEM Seminar Nov 2, 2021-- building Corsi-Rosenthal boxes and learning about DIY ventilation assessment and
Updated: 2021-11-01Presentation to Belfast High School 'Projects in Engineering' Class on 2021-11-04
Updated: 2021-10-25Presentation to Belfast High School 'Projects in Engineering' Class
Updated: 2021-10-25Video of talk 'Using Dat & the Hyper Stack in Agroecology', presented at the 2020 Dat Conference.
Updated: 2020-08-15Video of talk 'Design Patterns for Degrowth ICT', presented at Degrowth Vienna 2020, as well as at SCORAI 2020.
Updated: 2020-06-09Video of talk presented at the LibrePlanet2020 conference by Mike Stenta, Jamie Gaehring, and Don Blair
Updated: 2020-04-14DIY ventilation assessment and improvement in order to reduce the risk of airborne disease transmission.
Updated: 2023-11-06Connecting a Circuitpython sensor to FarmOS, using a 'remote node' + 'single-channel gateway' approach. Specific example uses an Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4, Adafruit LoRa Breakout, and Adafruit Airlift Breakout
Updated: 2020-05-15Simple Circuipython LoRa radio send & receive demo.
Updated: 2020-05-11Developing a design for a 'local first' approach to farm networking.
Updated: 2020-05-01