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Experimenting with Extreme Environments - Winners' Announcement

rscasny

What is Experimenting with Extreme Environments? As IoT solutions continue to be deployed around the world, more and more electronic devices are exposed to harsh and extreme environments. To learn more about what is involved in protecting electronics...
- 16 Jul 2024
Weathering the Station - Final Entry - Life finds a way

Anthocyanina

Table of Contents Life finds a way Initial testing of the components The connector and cable build New sensor data, a full day Interfacing with the LCD Building time A new day Media server, a simple implementation Life finds a way When I signed u...
- 22 Jun 2024
Extreme Environment Home Assistance Sensors #6 Final Blog Home Assistant on the Go in Mobile

fyaocn

#6 Final Blog: Home Assistant on the Go in Mobile For Extreme Environment Home Assistance Sensors 1 Brief Home Assistant Operation System can utilize many plugins and hardware to integrated in one smart control system. This can be arranged at home ...
- 21 Jun 2024
Extreme Environment Wardriving and Wireless Network Analysis - Summary Blog

MarioDL99

Introduction Wardriving in extreme environmental conditions serves several important purposes and offers unique advantages such as assessing the coverage and reliability of wireless networks in areas that may not have reliable infrastructure. Also, w...
- 20 Jun 2024
Final blog - Pool temperature sensor

iker46

Introduction This is the last blog entry for my Experimenting with Extreme Environment challenge entry. In the first one, the project was presented together with a brief explanation of the main chemical reaction taking place in m...
- 20 Jun 2024
CycleSafe - Summary Blog

vlasov01

Project goals The goal of CycleSafe project is to improve safety of cyclists on the road. The secondary goal is to make it affordable for a wider community. Project Overview The project will use RPi 4, a camera, and machine learning algorithms t...
- 20 Jun 2024
Exploring hidden extremes of sheltered environment - final summary blog

JWx

Intro During this year's Experimenting with Extreme Environments design challenge I have decided to continue my work of identifying edge cases of environmental origin when deploying electronic systems outdoors. And - as of outdoors - I am not even th...
- 19 Jun 2024
Final Blog - UrbanRest Guardian - Smart Street Noise Monitor

javagoza

UrbanRest Guardian Project Introduction Greetings! I'm Enrique, a Spanish software developer working in the credit card payment industry. I've been having trouble sleeping recently. Noise in my neighborhood has gotten crazy. It's a constant...
- 19 Jun 2024
Garden Secrets System - Summary Blog

dougw

Intro This design challenge is about protecting electronic systems in extreme environments. Hammond Manufacturing and element14 provided a weatherproof Hammond enclosure, a weatherproof Amphenol connector and some Raspberry Pi electronics and a Midas...
- 19 Jun 2024
ESP32 ADC programming tutorial with ESP-IDF

embeddedguy

Table of Contents Introduction to ADC Build and Flash Reference Code Introduction to ADC Sometimes it is quite easy to think that programming an ADC(Analog to Digital converter) is so simple. Specially if someone is used to to the Arduino platfor...
- 18 Jun 2024
CycleSafe - #5 - Objects Detection and Tracking in RPi4

vlasov01

A more in-depth look at alternatives to YOLO v8 Use a different algorithm Background substruction FOMO Other versions of YOLO Optimize YOLOv8 Find a way to use more CPU cores for video processing. Use a higher camera resolution so the app can dete...
- 17 Jun 2024
MotionEyeOS Tutorial

dougw

Intro The Experimenting With Extreme Environments Challenge blog guideline suggests to include an educational blog. While my other blogs include some pointers, I thought I would do a mini tutorial on how to install MotioEyeOS on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2...
- 16 Jun 2024
Final Blog - Wildlife Monitor Project

ralphjy

Wildlife Monitor Introduction The purpose of this design challenge is to test the performance of a Hammond IP68 enclosure housing an electronic project in an extreme or harsh environment - "Experimenting with Extreme Environments". The inspiration ...
- 16 Jun 2024
Final Results -- IoT Device Protection in Harsh Environments

skruglewicz

As part of a Design Challenge titled Experimenting with Extreme Environments, sponsored by Hammond Manufacturing, I submitted this blog as the final results blog. This is the last blog in a series of extra credit blogs that cover topics of major step...
- 14 Jun 2024
Blog#5 Testing the Environment within the Waterproof Enclosure

skruglewicz

The purpose of this blog is to assess the compliance status of IP68-rated enclosures over time by conducting a series of tests. The tests will analyze the impact of extreme environmental conditions on the electronics within the enclosure using electr...
- 13 Jun 2024
Backyard Secrets 1

dougw

Intro I really wanted to get the multi-camera system setup in the back yard to see how the whole system would work in practice. So this is an overview of where everything is placed and some images from the various cameras. I did get some unexpected v...
- 13 Jun 2024
Extreme Environment Home Assistance Sensors #5 Implement AI vision with Luckfox Pico Pro Board

fyaocn

#5 Implement AI vision with Luckfox Pico Pro Board For Extreme Environment Home Assistance Sensors 1 Brief Within the Home assistant Operation System(HAOS) Add-ons, there are VLC player plugin. The video can be streamed in RTSP for super...
- 13 Jun 2024
Experimenting with Extreme Environments - Deep Dive On Kit Components

dougw

Intro This blog in the Experimenting With Extreme Environments design challenge is to satisfy the requirement for a deep-dive into the kit components. The deep-dive blog is worth up to 20 points so I will endeavor to make at least 20 comments or poin...
- 11 Jun 2024
CycleSafe - #4 - The Road Test and Object Detections with YOLOv8

vlasov01

Video Recording I've recorded my bicycle ride from the tail camera perspective near the sunset on a nice spring evening. I've used the components and the app I've described in my previous blog CycleSafe - #3 - The Preparations for the Road...
- 9 Jun 2024
PicoPorch Final Touches

dougw

Intro The backyard camera system is finally nearing completion. It now consists of four different Raspberry Pi cameras (a Pi Camera Module 2, a Pi Camera Module 2 NOIR, a Pi Camera Module 3, and a Pi HQ Camera Module).. The cameras are run by 4 Raspb...
- 9 Jun 2024
PicoPorch System Demo

dougw

Intro This blog demonstrates the PicoPorch system in operation. All electrical and mechanical subsystems are now built and functioning although one of the stands still needs a few pieces and one of the cameras has not been definitively selected. Desp...
- 3 Jun 2024
CycleSafe - #3 - The Preparations for the Road Test and the Data Collection

vlasov01

Design Changes When I tried to connect the RPi Compute Module 4 I/O board with RPi Camera v2 I realized that they were not compatible. So, As I have a USB camera I've decided to reuse it instead of purchasing an additional camera. Here is the ne...
- 2 Jun 2024
PicoPorch Motor Controller

dougw

Intro I finally assembled the PicoPorch motor controller. This blog shows it in operation using manual switches to control motor direction and limit switches to prevent over rotation in either direction. Motor Controller CCA You can see 2 places whe...
- 27 May 2024
Weathering the Station - Blog 1 - Unboxing and project description

Anthocyanina

Table of Contents Weathering the Station, what's with that title? The Unboxing: The Enclosure: The panel mount connector: The cable connector The Raspberry Pi Compute module and IO Board: The External antenna: The Display: What's next? W...
- 25 May 2024
Exploring hidden extremes of sheltered environment - extra blog 5 - testing the limits of LCD display

JWx

Intro Another element from our design kit is an LCD display. It is 4x20 unit made by Midas Displays and driven by RW1063 chipset, which seems to be designed with Hitachi HD44780 compatibility in mind, including pin-to-pin compatibility (as can be see...
- 23 May 2024