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Safe and Sound - Environmental Factors - Microwaves - blog 15

dougw

This is the last of the hazardous environmental factors research blogs for this project, subsequent blogs in this challenge will deal with hardware builds, software programs, functional tests and test results.Microwaves are used for cell phones, Wi-F...
- 1 May 2017
Safe and Sound Wearables- Hearing Guard System #10: Creating Graphics

jomoenginer

Creating Graphics for the Sharp LCD Hardware: SimpleLink™︎ MSP432P401R LaunchPad 430BOOST-SHARP96 Software:MSP Graphics LibraryImage Reformer ToolMicrosoft Paint From the inception of my project I had an idea of a graphic image that I wa...
- 1 May 2017
Safe and Sound - Environmental Factors - Wearables - blog 14

dougw

I have been in Washington making a technical presentation in an unbelievably secure building, but now I'm back and it is time to catch up.I am still waiting for some parts for my sensor card – it is starting to look like I will have to kludge some co...
- 30 Apr 2017
Safe and Sound : Winter/Cold Weather Survival Suit Blog#9

dwinhold

This update is about water proofing my project. Everything done here is the first time I ever worked with this product and it was done live, so if it fails we will all see it go wrong. There are 3 videos attached, the first is showing the product, se...
- 29 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound T-Shirt for Monitoring Elderly and Physically Challenged Patients #8 : Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice....

sakthi.1260

Hello guys, How its going? Here is this weeks write up, I just put up everything together and placed them on my cycling t-shirt .I've made a change with the pulse sensor, I'm currently using a one based on MAX30100, though its an o...
- 24 Apr 2017
Safe and Sound: Winter Survival Suit Post #8

dwinhold

This week’s update is about the temperature sensors and dealing with the possibility of moisture issues. First is the temperature sensors: I finally received the temperature sensors yesterday!! I have been working most of today with Energ...
- 23 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound @ E14-CLEWE @#8_GPS issues

jkutzsch

Safe & Sound @ E14-CLEWE @#8_GPS issuesE14-C.L.E.W.E. INDEX:#1_”The word.”#6_Energia!#2_”The Science.”#7_Blog7 #3_"GPS decisions."#8_GPS_Issues #4_"GPS arrives!"#5_"The box, the box!" &nbsp...
- 23 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound -Flood early-warning Alarm Pack #6: Application of BOOSTXL-CC2650 on energia

fyaocn

1. The BOOSTXL-CC2650 is BLE/ZigBee supported dual stack development board. The MSP432 and CC2650 shall be connected via serial interface,2. The official instruction on CC2650 programming shall be under the following Flashing ProgrammerThe hardware c...
- 21 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound - Safety Jacket for the Tolling Industry #9: Keeping the Launchpads Safe

ipv1

This post is about enclosures and in particular about a case I designed for the Texas Instruments CC1310 that will fit about anything. Since there are no official enclosures out there for the LPs I though I would give it a shot. The difference betwee...
- 18 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound Wearables - Trackable Safety Helmet for Miners #6: Sensor Board

msimon

I was absent last two weeks, I hope I will catch up the following weeks In the last post, I have written about the socket programming and wifi boosterpack. The next think I need to hook up the sensor boosterpack but there were problems. Although bar...
- 17 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound T-Shirt for Monitoring Elderly and Physically Challenged Patients #7 : Its Dark and I'm Falling...

sakthi.1260

Hello Guys,This week's blog is here, so started working on IMU and Light sensors. I had a few issues with the Sensors booster pack BMI160 and the Energia, I'm still working on it but for now I'm using a MPU6050. Well its a I2C accele...
- 16 Apr 2017
Safe and Sound Wearables- Hearing Guard System #9: TI-RTOS Enable Button HWI Part II - Debouncin'

jomoenginer

TI-RTOS - HWI Button Presses w/Debounce In my last blog post, I covered how to add Hardware Interrupts to handle the Button presses on the MSP432. But, as Jan Cumps pointed out, to get reliable button presses, Debounce handlers should be added.S...
- 16 Apr 2017
Safe and Sound : Winter Survival Suit Post#7 (Let there be power)

dwinhold

Safe and Sound Post#7 (Let there be power) Unfortunately I still haven't received my temperature sensors, so I am unable to fully assemble the suit. I have the carbon fiber sewn into the suit and ready to be tested. This past week I have wir...
- 16 Apr 2017
Safe and Sound - Hazardous Factors System - ARM Car - blog 13

dougw

This last week has seen a lot of time on mechanical CAD and 3D printing to try and squeeze the MQTT subscriber system into a wearable package.I called it the ARM Car because it looks like a car and it is a TI ARM chip to be worm on an arm.Here is a p...
- 15 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound - Safety Jacket for the Tolling Industry #8: Energy Harvesting

ipv1

Log #8 This week I have been up to no good again and the focus of my experiments have been the BQ25504 and BQ25570. The EVM we received from TI and E14 is that of the BQ25570 Energy Harvesting to Battery charger and has all the necessary compone...
- 15 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound - Smart Safety Glasses #5: Capacitive sensing in CCS

salexku

In the previous blog post I've described how to establish a WiFi link with the CC3100 booster pack and Energia. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any Enregia libraries that implement capacitive sensing and support the MSP432. The libraries which...
- 14 Apr 2017
Safe and Sound Wearables- Hearing Guard System #8: TI-RTOS Enable Button HWI

jomoenginer

TI-RTOS - HWI Button Presses For my Hearing Guard System, I intend to use multiple menus to allow the user to set items such as Db Threshold, View Alerts, Connect to Base Unit, and so. This required user input and at this time, the on boar...
- 14 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound - TELEMETRY SYSTEM FOR SMART CLOTHES #3: The Kit

amolnar

Hooray! Finally I received the purchased modules, which I need for the participation in this contest !!! It is unfortunate that element14 could not find an opportunity to send me the promised modules, as to all the other participants! I had...
- 14 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound -Flood early-warning Alarm Pack #5: Test of TRF7970A NFC BoosterPack-DLP Designed

fyaocn

1. Brief Introduction to TRF7970A NFC BoosterPackThis is the DLP Designed NFC/RFID BoosterPack (DLP-7970ABP) .This BoosterPack allows developer to get familiar with the functionalities of TRF7970A Multi-Protocol Fully Integrated 13.56 MHz NFC/ HF RFI...
- 13 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound T-Shirt for Monitoring Elderly and Physically Challenged Patients #6 : Breathe and Heat

sakthi.1260

Hi guys, Have been busy lately, so here is this week's post. Sensing Breathe and Temperature. I came across this conductive elastic chord which changes its resistance as it is stretched, so decided to use it as a respiratory sensor. 1m ...
- 11 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound - Safety Jacket for the Tolling Industry #7: Cloud CCS and Sample Code Issues

ipv1

Introduction I have missed the last week’s post due to a number of reasons and this week I am presenting another facet of the TI Platforms. I have been working with the various components of the kit to understand their working and how the code ...
- 10 Apr 2017
Safe and Sound - Hazardous Factors MQTT Subscriber & Publisher - blog 12

dougw

I managed to purchase a second WiFi booster pack although the TI discount voucher I won here was not accepted This booster pack has allowed me to assemble a second system consisting of a MSP-EXP432P401RMSP-EXP432P401R a CC3100ModBoost and a&nbs...
- 9 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound @ E14-CLEWE @#7_Blog7

jkutzsch

E14-C.L.E.W.E. INDEX:E14-C.L.E.W.E. INDEX:#1_”The word.”#6_Energia!#2_”The Science.”#7_Blog7#3_"GPS decisions."#8_GPS_Issues #4_"GPS arrives!"#5_"The box, the box!" &nb...
- 9 Apr 2017
Safe and Sound - Hazardous Environmental Factors - ELF - blog 11

dougw

Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation - (ELF)I am going to arbitrarily split this large topic into just the 2 ranges of electromagnetic fields which are of most interest to me: 0 to 300 Hz and microwaves from 2 to 3 GHz. Is electrom...
- 6 Apr 2017
Safe & Sound -Flood early-warning Alarm Pack #4: Understanding BQ25570 EVM board

fyaocn

1. Introduction to BQ25570 The bq25570 device is specifically designed to efficiently extract microwatts (µW) to milliwatts (mW) of power generated from a variety of high output impedance DC sources like photovoltaic (solar) or thermal electric gener...
- 5 Apr 2017