Posts on Project Curacao
Wind Power for the Pi/Arduino – 8 Days in the Breeze A new 50W wind turbine, wind speed and direction units have been added to Project Curacao during the upgrade earlier this month. Project Curacao has now been down […]
Solar Power for the Pi/Arduino – Six Days In The Sun Last week the full set of upgrades were applied to the Project Curacao project down in the Caribbean. I added the following: New Wind Turbine Hardware WatchDog Timer (the […]
Solar Power and The Raspberry Pi/Arduino New Results The new additional solar panels have now been installed for a few days on the Project Curacao box. The ideas was to increase the power to the Arduino by about 50% and […]
Solar Power and the Raspberry Pi – 6 Months in the Sun One of the critical subsystems of Project Curacao is the solar power system. The original solar cells have been exposed to the fierce sun for over 6 months. […]
Wind Power and WeatherPiArduino in the Caribbean Wind Power arrives again! Down here in the Caribbean for sun, fun and Project Curacao upgrades. Yesterday, we finished installing the WeatherPiArduino board into the Project Curacao Box and added the WeatherRack sensors to […]
Dead Man Switch The Battery Watch Arduino software has expanded to about 3000 lines of code. Guess what? There are certainly bugs in this software. One of the unresolved issues about the architecture of Project Curacao is that the software […]
BeaconAir On Raspberry Pi / iBeacons BeaconAir is a Raspberry Pi based project that reads the advertising packets coming from iBeacons and roughly calculates the physical position of BeaconAir by Trilateration. This is an application that uses the SwitchDoc Labs new iBeacon Python […]
WeatherPiArduino Complete and Ready for the Caribbean Deployment The WeatherPiArduino board is now up and finished. The board to the right of the WeatherPiArduino is a new board called the SwitchDoc Dual WatchDog. It implements an external watchdog function for both […]
Drawing and Displaying Graphs on Raspberry Pi and RasPiConnect using MatPlotLib We often have data that is better shown as a graph rather than a table. It is much easier to pick out a pattern when you show the data visually. […]
Real Time Clock Python Libraries For Raspberry Pi – DS1307, DS3231, PCF8563, MCP79400 – Reviews/Results For devices like the Raspberry Pi, a Real Time Clock (RTC) is needed anytime the device is not connected to the Internet (if you care […]
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