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Experimenting with Extreme Environments - Winners' Announcement

2024-07-16T17:22:06Z

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...(read more)

Weathering the Station - Final Entry - Life finds a way

2024-06-22T14:00:20Z

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...(read more)

Extreme Environment Home Assistance Sensors #6 Final Blog Home Assistant on the Go in Mobile

2024-06-21T03:14:09Z

#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 ...(read more)

Extreme Environment Wardriving and Wireless Network Analysis - Summary Blog

2024-06-20T23:41:12Z

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...(read more)

Final blog - Pool temperature sensor

2024-06-20T20:40:25Z

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...(read more)

CycleSafe - Summary Blog

2024-06-20T03:11:33Z

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...(read more)

Exploring hidden extremes of sheltered environment - final summary blog

2024-06-19T20:52:30Z

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...(read more)

Final Blog - UrbanRest Guardian - Smart Street Noise Monitor

2024-06-19T14:18:46Z

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...(read more)

Garden Secrets System - Summary Blog

2024-06-19T07:28:39Z

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...(read more)

CycleSafe - #5 - Objects Detection and Tracking in RPi4

2024-06-17T02:24:23Z

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...(read more)

MotionEyeOS Tutorial

2024-06-16T20:53:54Z

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...(read more)

Final Blog - Wildlife Monitor Project

2024-06-16T01:19:46Z

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 ...(read more)

Final Results -- IoT Device Protection in Harsh Environments

2024-06-14T06:54:03Z

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...(read more)

Blog#5 Testing the Environment within the Waterproof Enclosure

2024-06-13T06:57:00Z

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...(read more)

Backyard Secrets 1

2024-06-13T05:35:11Z

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...(read more)