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Software Description Done

March 19, 2014

We have published the description and architecture of the software system used for Project Curacao. Check out our Project Curacao Software Description page above.

Today was the big day. We mounted the Project Curacao wind turbine (here on Amazon) and the box up on the tower. March 13, 2014. It’s running fine. You can see the graphs and latest picture on https://www.milocreek.com/projectcuracaographs. Thank you […]

Project on Site

March 9, 2014

All of our equipment has arrived here on the island. TSA inspected the box twice, but aside from picking up the box with the outside temperature sensor, pulling the wires off, it survived. The temperature sensor was fixable. There were […]

Software Status (02/19/14)

February 19, 2014

Our release software is done. It’s been in final test for the past week now. Here is the list of issues and latest additions.As of today (02/19/14), the current state of the software in Project Curacao is as follows:– Arduino Battery […]

Wind Turbine (50W) Loaded Results

February 17, 2014

Update (03/26/14): The Wind Turbine was deployed down in Curacao two weeks ago. The actual data from the Turbine matched this article quite well. About 60-90ma at 15 MPH. Not much (and not nearly enough to run the box – […]

BM017 / TCS34725 Color Sensor I2C Python driver

February 15, 2014

We have made one more addition to the hardware on Project Curacao. We have added a BM017 / TCS34725 RGBC color sensor to the device. Here is the device attached to the back of the top of the box and […]

Final Box for Project Curacao

February 7, 2014

As we ramp up to the last few weeks before deployment, our last task is to put Project Curacao in the final box. Here is the NEMA enclosure purchased on Amazon (BUD Industries NBB-15253 Style B Plastic Outdoor NEMA Box […]

Loaded 15W/50W Micro Wind Turbine Characterization

January 28, 2014

This past weekend we did the loaded testing for the two potential configurations for the wind turbines for Project Curacao. Two 15W Wind Turbine Configuration We first tested a two 15W Wind Turbine configuration. Our guess is that we could get […]

Matplotlib, Raspberry Pi, MySQL, RasPiConnect and Project Curacao

January 27, 2014

One of the things we are using the Raspberry Pi on Project Curacao for is to generate graphs. Yes, We know we could ship the data to another server and generate the graphs there, but since we have a nice […]

Windstorm on RasPiConnect

January 22, 2014

Here is a screen shot of RasPiConnect capturing the wind storm that came through last weekend. We had the 15W Wind Turbine hooked up and reporting through the Project Curacao software. It was fortuitous that the wind storm came through. […]