Today I have posted the first of six articles describing my current “obsession”, Project Curacao. This is a solar powered environmental monitoring box based on a Raspberry Pi and Arduino Mega 2650 controlled by the iPhone/iPad app RasPiConnect. It will be hung on a amateur radio tower in Curacao in March of 2014. It is close to be being finished and will go through system testing for January and February of 2014.
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| The Project Curacao Box as of as of November 3, 2013 |
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| The first prototype and connection to RasPiConnect in February 2013 |
I have learned a lot about the current state of inexpensive computers, inexpensive sensors and prototyping techniques. I’ve been using embedded systems for close to thirty years, but for an entire decade I was involved with Wastewater Treatment, Computer Security and Medical Software. Time to get up to date with the current technology.
I’ll share all the problems as well as the successes. Leave a comment if you have learned something good here or want to ask a question.