Hi everyone, I would like to introduce my project as one of the selected challeger of Summer of Sensors Design Challenge - In the Air Tonight
This sub-challenge is mainly based on the ZMOD4510-EVK Outdoor Air Quality Sensor, provided a...
BLOG# 1 - BPM Uno – INTRODUCTION. A Patient Beats Per Minute Heart Rate Monitor. This blog is part of a blog series for the Summer of Sensors -- Under Pressure Design Challenge. The sponsor of the challenge MikroElektronika, has suppl...
The first thing I thought I'd try, after receiving the In The Air Tonigh kit, is to simply follow the instructions in the box and try out the sensors with the software provided by Renesas.
The evaluation kits are designed to run on Windows, so I set ...
Hello!
I was selected by element14 and Renesas to take part of the Summer Of Sensors - In the Air Tonight challenge.
For this challenge I want to build a sensor project that tracks air quality in my garage and in my house in rooms near the garage. Th...
Introduction
Apologies, I'm late! As usual, in these busy days. But I finally got a chance to wipe some weekly time on the calendar to focus on the challenge: add sensing to an existing device. Wait and see what I called 'device' here...
As a newly b...
Recap
This is my fourth blog for the Summer of Sensors Design Challenge under the catagory Exploration Station. In previous blogs I have introduced the project idea, laid out my goals and objectives, proposed a project shedule, and summarised so...
Plan changes and design problems
Welcome back! In this post I hope to explain to you the new circuit I have been working on and the progress made in building it, as well as a calendar of my blog posts that I will try to stick to. Let's jump rig...
Apologies
Firstly, apologies for the lack of comms recently. I was in the midst of writing this blog when I was taken into hospital with a burst appendix. It was a bit of a long haul so I’ve had a couple of weeks off, but I’m home and rec...
Hello everyone.
I welcome you in my third blog as part of Summer of Sensors Design Challenge in the In the Air Tonight category. In my first blog post I described my plans as part of this competition and in second blog I shown contents of the board w...
Dear readers, I apologize for the late posting, I had hoped to post last week, but have fallen Ill with a fever. At the moment I hope to be back to posting by the end of this week. I have also gotten a few notifications saying the kit will be arrivin...
Recap
In my previous blog, I introduced my project idea for the Summer of Sensors Design Challenge. The project is a low cost, adaptive smart bulb controller using a proximity sensor and an ambient light sensor from Vishay. The proximity sensor will ...
Hello everyone, Firstly, Happy to be a part of the Summer of Sensors Design Challenge. While I'm waiting for the kit, I would like to give an insight into what we will be testing and how it would make an impact in the day to day life.
And I'm a...
Welcome to my second blog post as part of Summer of Sensors Design Challenge. In previous blog I described my plans as part of Summer of Sensors Design Challenge in the In the Air Tonight category. Time go quickly and yesterday I received my kit. Not...
Introduction
Good evening and welcome to my project!
The challenge doesn't officially start until tomorrow, so I thought today I would just take the opportunity to introduce myself and the project.
My name is Owen and I was lucky enough to have been ...
Introduction
Browsing the competition page, I saw that under the ideas for the Exploration Station Kit it mentioned:
Add sensing to an existing device
Fix a broken system with SensorXplorer
My mind went to the rundown and slow charging EZ-Go W...
Hello everyone.
I welcome you to this introductory blog which I will use for describing my plans as part of Summer of Sensors Design Challenge. I originally did not want to join this competition and I did not apply for it. But later before official c...
