Mothbot -- Convivial Radio Microcontroller Design
Designing an accessible and easy-to-assemble radio device for use in environmental monitoring and education.
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Designing an accessible and easy-to-assemble radio device for use in environmental monitoring and education.
Updated: 2021-01-12Developing an Free and Open Source end-to-end system for CO2 monitoring.
Updated: 2020-12-06Radio + WiFi + Ultrasonic tide monitoring.
Updated: 2020-07-17Setting up a LoRa- and WiFi- based greenhouse monitoring system.
Updated: 2020-05-11Collaborating on the FloodSense project with NOLAFlotilla.
Updated: 2020-05-11Prototyping a LoRa- and wifi-based system for Soil moisture and temperature, as well as ambient temperature humidty and soil temperture inside a greenhouse.
Updated: 2020-12-18Developing a Free and Open Source LoRa-based system (softwarre, hardware); prototyping a remote node for capturing relaying data from an SDI-12 - based soil moisture sensor.
Updated: 2020-05-10(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: 2019-07-24Connecting 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: 2020-05-01Video 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: 2020-06-14Video of talk presented at the LibrePlanet2020 conference by Mike Stenta, Jamie Gaehring, and Don Blair
Updated: 2020-04-14Flood / tide sensor prototyping
Updated: 2020-01-18Load scale measurements using FOS software + hardware
Updated: 2020-12-23Experiments in software defined radio.
Updated: 2020-12-05Experiments in depth sensing
Updated: 2020-11-25Reserach 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 animal tracking for conservation
Updated: 2020-10-17Notes on setting up podcasting infrastructure
Updated: 2020-10-17Experiments with the Hyper Protocol
Updated: 2020-10-08Greenhouse monitoring electronics at Vale da Lama
Updated: 2020-10-20Notes on development of DIY conductivity sensors
Updated: 2020-10-01Notes on inexpensive CO2 monitoring options
Updated: 2020-10-22Notes 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: 2020-10-05Using 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: 2020-09-14Collecting 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: 2020-08-27Experimenting with the Meshtastic system for Android + Bluetooth + LoRa mesh networking.
Updated: 2020-09-27Building radio nodes with an eye towards easy assembly and easy sourcing of parts.
Updated: 2020-08-03