The crucial moment is coming: installing the sensor in a real carBefore of that, all the components have been mounted in a case, as shown in pictures below. Particular care has been taken to thermally insulate the electronics compon...
The last step before installing the AirMobile board on a real car is to test the Bluetooth connection What you see in the video is the AirMobile board mated with the TI LaunchPad board and powered by a Peltier cell. The gray box you see in the v...
As a software engineer, I do not normally work with custom hardware/electronics, so I was missing all basic components required for prototyping and was feeling kind of stuck. I did not want to spend the farnell budget on “consumable” general purpose ...
More Hardware and software update: For hardware, PCB have been send for manufacture. Most of the component is ready for assembly. Now just waiting for PCB and some accessories. Picture show the final PCB send for manufacture. Picture bellow...
After testing most of the hardware to detect short-circuits that could burn the MSP430 pins, I mated the AirMobile board to the TI LaunchPad board Before proceeding, I had to set the TI LaunchPad's jumpers properly.The configuration is as fo...
Hi everyone, I will be giving a detailed update this weekend, I just wanted to say that part of my Element14 order was canceled by them due to parts being discontinued. They never informed me, only when I called to find out about the delay is wh...
Today I tested the power supply section of the AirMobile board.As you can read in this post, the feature of this board is that it is powered up by a Peltier cell, thus harvesting the wasted heat of a car radiator.First of all, a note about the The st...
Household energy consumption could be the highest contributor in one's carbon footprint. By measuring how much energy we consume each day we may be able to adjust our usage patterns to save. There are several ways to measure household...
CC3200 + 430BOOST-SHARP96 with Energia:In this chapter I will explain the CC3200, 430Boost-sharp96 and Energia. This should save lot of time with given code and example code for the existing hardware and software. I have try the BBB and BB View 4.3" ...
PreludeI have been busy with the IoT HOliday Lights project but after its completion, I have jumped right back here. I had the boards manufactured from Seeed and they look good. I will post a progress blog separately, but right now, I need to post ab...
Finally I (almost) completed the AirMobile sensor boardHere it is If you think it's awful, I agree with you... I made too many mistakes, but component's bottom views always confuse me.Anyway, to complete the board I have tomo...
Best view 1920 X 1200CAM editing:Still editing the CAM file to make all hardware compatible with the PCB.Having some down side due to different pin location but still able to solve the issue. Just need to be careful when using this PCB due to non com...
Since most of the foundation software for this system is functional, the next posts will be more on the hardware aspects of the system starting from the power supply. As previously mentioned, the board design is more of a development platform t...
Over the couple weeks or so, I have been focused on the central hub application where I have been successfully sending device information and sample data to AirVantage. However, I couldn't seem to retrieve the data from the cloud-platform o...
Earlier this challenge, I have been setting up the development environment using Visual Studio and in one of those posts, I did mention on how to configure Visual Studio to develop Linux applications using VisualGDB. SysProgs has a very good tu...
Just coming back from Las Vegas, US. Sorry for no weekly update Power Bank:Getting this power bank few day ago. It look quite solid and nice. Took me more then 7hour to fully charged this power bank with 2A 5V adapter.Look like the power indica...
