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[Pool Water Monitoring] #13 Arduino MKR 1300 WAN data collecting

feiticeir0

Hi all ! Hope everyone is safe. The time has come to start monitoring. Today I'm just making sure everything is wired correctly, testing each component separately (although they already are together in the enclosure) before start codding and sendin...
- 14 Jan 2022
Blog 1:Enclosure Water Leakage Test

vinayyn

I have received all the components for the Just encase challenge couple of weeks back. My project plan is to place all the circuits inside the enclosure and to keep them in an outdoor environment for testing. While Thinking of the outdoor we h...
- 14 Jan 2022
[Pool Water Monitoring] #12 Architecture Design #3: Arduino MKR 1300 WAN data sender

feiticeir0

Hi all ! Hope everyone is safe and sound. This is the part of the project that will collect and send the data to the receiver part. It will monitor: Water temperature using the DS18b20 High temperature probe Nutrients of the water using the TDS pro...
- 11 Jan 2022
Remote Farm Monitoring and Watering System - Blog #2 Arduino MKR 1300 and Farm Update

carmelito

As part of second blog, for the Remote Farm Monitoring and Watering System, I am updating both the Arduino MKR 1300 with the latest firmware, that came as part of the kit. To start install the Arduino SAMD Board in the Arduino Board Manager Onc...
- 10 Jan 2022
Just Encase Solar Super Capacitor - Project Outline - Blog 2

dougw

Background RationaleSunlight is well on its way to becoming the major source of electrical power on the planet, and I want to learn more about the important technologies involved in this global paradigm shift. One way to help with this objective is t...
- 8 Jan 2022
Orb-weaver Rover - Blog #1 - Concept

milosrasic98

Orbweaver Rover - Concept 1. Introduction Hi! This will be my first blog for the Just Encase design challenge. In this first blog, I want to go over some details about what my project will be, how I plan on accomplishing that, ideas for the proj...
- 6 Jan 2022
[Pool Water Monitoring] #10 Architecture Design: Sender, receiver and display

feiticeir0

Hi all ! Happy New Year to all. Hope everyone is safe and sound. Today, I'm presenting in more detail my design for the challenge. NOTE: This will be updated with the links to the respective blog entries when done. Project This project is comprise o...
- 3 Jan 2022
[Pool Water Monitoring] #11 Architecture Design #2: Arduino MKR 1300 WAN receiver and Grove Display

feiticeir0

Hi all ! Happy New Year 2022. Starting with the project designs, working with both Arduinos, one will collect and send information, and the other one will receive and display it. The following blog entry explains the project design Data receiving Pa...
- 2 Jan 2022
Blog 9 - Bringing the hardware all together - Part 1 (updated)

christophesky

Happy New Year everyone! Pandoras Box Time to get things ready and installed to its Hammond enclosure. Where it started. On my desk the sensor - MKR1300 connection arrangement is relatively tidy. I am concious that with a mix of analogue input...
- 1 Jan 2022
Blog 6 - The Soak Test UPDATE 4 (Test 4 - pass but user failed)

christophesky

In one corner we have the Enclosure Case 1554UGY (Water Tight ABS 200x120x90 Enclosure) and in the challenger corner we have a washing up bowl (well my Greenhouse potting tub) and plenty of cold water. Test Parameters: 24 hour test duration. Fully s...
- 1 Jan 2022
Blog 8 - Measure, send, receive, transform, store, display (updated with code)

christophesky

Its alive. TLDR: Sensors + Ard MKR 1300 Sender -> LoRa -> Ard MKR 1300 Reciever ->Serial to Raspberry Pi -> Node Red Flow to process -> Write to Influx DB -> Display in Grafana. Set up as below Node Red I have now updated my node ...
- 30 Dec 2021
Blog 7 - Sensors, connections and starting some code - draft / wip

christophesky

Project Requirements to Sensing Solutions. To recap, I want to know about the water quality of my pond, so measurement of TDS, pH, Turbidity, Temperature, and dissolved oxygen (and perhaps Oxidation reduction potential) are all things I am interested...
- 30 Dec 2021
[Pool Water Monitoring] #9 Arduino MKR 1300 WAN battery monitoring

feiticeir0

Hello all again. Hope everyone is safe and well. One of the necessities of this project, is remote monitoring. In most cases, the Arduino MKR 1300 WAN will not be connected to mains power or USB. Fortunately, the MKR 1300 WAN can be powered by 2 AA ...
- 29 Dec 2021
Particulate Matter Monitoring System for Wildfires - #2: Material Procurement and Sensor Testing

gracemcnally

Now that I have a concept for my project and have done background research on particulate matter (PM), the next step was material procurement. The Hammond Manufacturing Enclosures and Arduino MRK WAN 1300’s were coming in the mail along with t...
- 28 Dec 2021
[Pool Water Monitoring] #8 Temperature communication using LoRa and Arduino MKR 1300 WAN and a Serial Console mishap

feiticeir0

Hi all ! Hope everyone is well and safe. Before and a bit after Christmas, was time to test LoRa to LoRa communication using the two Arduinos MKR 1300 WAN from the kit. One of the Arduinos will be connected to the Adafruit's high temperatu...
- 27 Dec 2021
Just Encase Solar Super Capacitor Experiment - blog 1

dougw

The Just Encase component kit arrived with a wide variety of interesting components so I will kick this project off with a little unboxing video that includes some teasers about what my project will include. Just in case the Just Encase title is not ...
- 25 Dec 2021
Remote Farm Monitoring and Watering System - Blog #1 - Introduction and Unboxing.

carmelito

The Just Encase Design challenge comes at an opportune time, basically winter is a great season(temperature between 22 C to 30 C) here in Goa, India, where my family grows vegetable on my Dad’s farm. The farm is about 500 meters away ...
- 22 Dec 2021
[Pool Water Monitoring] #7 LoRa Communication between Arduino MKR 1300 WAN and Arduino MKR 1300 WAN

feiticeir0

Hello everyone. Hope you're all safe . After I received the kit and been able to read temperature values from the probe with one MKR 1300 WAN, today was time to try and start a conversation, using LoRa, between those two modules. Hardware 2x Ar...
- 22 Dec 2021
[Pool Water Monitoring] #6 Kit first steps

feiticeir0

Hi everyone. Hope you're all safe. KIT Yesterday the kit finally arrived (thank you Element14) and it's awesome. Start testing Today, was time to test some of the components. This was my first experience with an Arduino MKR 1300 WAN.&nbsp...
- 21 Dec 2021
Blog 5 - Getting started with the MKR 1300 (and LoRa Sender Starting LoRa failed!)

christophesky

Gettting Started Arduino IDE installed. Libraries installed - read more here for instaling the SAMD boards and required libraries https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/MKRWAN1300 Antennas for the win. - suprisingly the MKR1300 doesnt come with an antenna i...
- 19 Dec 2021
Blog 4 - Arrivals, Github and requirements

christophesky

Unboxing I cannot say I ever expected to make an unboxing video :D but its like Christmas, but for makers so why the heck not. Its arrived. Lets look inside. community.element14.com/.../New-video.mp4 Github I have now created a github repo for code ...
- 16 Dec 2021
[Pool Water Monitoring] #5: LoRa communication and Upload to Arduino IoT Cloud

feiticeir0

Hi all again. Hope everyone is safe. This is the second part, of a two part blog, showing how to receive values through LoRa communications and upload the values to Arduino IoT Cloud. On the first part, we got both LoRa devices communicating and sen...
- 14 Dec 2021
Blog Post 3 - Its coming!!

christophesky

Suprise email last night from UPS advising I have a parcel coming from the US. I wasnt expecting anything... was I? Must be phishy, wait, sent by Daniel Zima, Dan Zima ... the Dan that Phil Z said might be in touch for shipping details. Oh thi...
- 14 Dec 2021
Blog Post 2 - My Method or WWHW

christophesky

Making a Plan I do not think i am alone with having a number of projects where I started with great enthusiasm and then either got stuck, distracted or ran out of time and then did not resume later.I do not see this necessarily as a bad thing. If I a...
- 12 Dec 2021
[Pool Water Monitoring] #4: LoRa communication

feiticeir0

Hello everybody . Hope every one is doing well . Merry Christmas all. While the kit does not arrive and having two TTGO LoRa ESP32 SX1267 modules, I've decided to start learning how to send data from one module to the other. And, since temperature i...
- 10 Dec 2021