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Blog #1:Measure Climate Change with Hydroponic System Blog #1 | Concept Design and Plans
Blog #2:Measure Climate Change with Hydroponic System Blog #2 | XMC4200 Bring-up and Hydroponic System
Motivation
Today, people are concerned about global warming and climate change. However, as climate is defined as “ the weather conditions that are expected in a region at a particular time of year over 30 years or more,” it is not easy for everyone to understand how our daily life today or tomorrow can affect climate change in 30 years.
For example, extra greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) can cause air temperature go up. Higher temperature could speed up melting Arctic sea ice. The Figure below shows a significant increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration over the last decades (Source: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions). This project will help everyone understand climate change by measuring photosynthesis with Infineon products and a hydroponic prototype system on a small scale. End-users can adjust cooling fan speed, duration of LED light, and oxygen air pump in water and measure temperature and CO2 in air inside the system, so we can experience the photosynthesis process and predict climate change under our control!
Concept Design
Here is the block diagram of the photosynthesis prototype to measure temperature and CO2 over time. The prototype uses at least four Infineon components: (1) MCU Platform2GO (XMC4200), (2) Motor Controller (TLE94112), (3) Pressure Sensor (DPS368), and (4) Magnetic Sensor (TLV493D)
This is the table of sensor components.
Next Steps
I just received the components from Newark. Thanks very much! It is time to unbox them and bring up the software development environment and start bringing up. This is going to be fun!
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