Installation and First Months of Project Curacao- Part 7 What is Project Curacao? This is the seventh part of a series discussing the design and building of Project Curacao, a sensor filled project that hangs on a radio tower on […]
What is Project Curacao? Project Curacao is designed to monitor the local environment unattended for six months. It operates on solar power cells and will communicate with the designer via an iPad App called RasPiConnect. All aspects of this project […]
Project Curacao – Environmental Subsystem What is Project Curacao? This article is part of a series discussing the design and building of Project Curacao, a sensor filled project that will hang on a radio tower on the island nation […]
Project Curacao – Solar Power Subsystem NOTE: The Solar Panel Charger Controller in this project has been replaced by a 3rd Generation Controller by SwitchDoc Labs called SunAir. The Subsystem The solar power subsystem consists of two solar panels, a […]
Project Curacao: Remote Sensing in the Caribbean What is Project Curacao? This series of articles discusses the design and building of Project Curacao, a sensor filled project designed to hang on a radio tower on the island nation of […]
Project Curacao has now been down in the Caribbean for two weeks now. We’ve had some issues but they have been resolved. We are writing an article for MagPi magazine describing all of our issues with the box and the […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are now doing system testing on the control software. We have tested battery voltage shutdowns/startups, watchdog shutdown/startups, and alarm based shutdowns/startups. Next, we have to test the deadman switch and add the 15W Wind Turbine. Then the final testing […]
As we get closer to system deployment (March 2014), I am running more system level tests. The first of these (the week of November 17-24) revealed the following problems that need to be addressed: – The DHT22 sensor is returning more errors […]
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