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Project Ideas Needed: Environmental Science with Arduino or Raspberry Pi

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I'm looking for ideas/projects we can design using an Arduino or Raspberry Pi with high school students. My students are participating in Make/Google's Summer Maker Camp and they just sent us a couple of Arduino Unos to build our projects around. Since I'm really new to single-board computers, I'd love to hear from everyone here for ideas..

 

It would be awesome if we could find projects related to:

  • Environmental Science (like the one mentioned in this post)
  • Oceanography
  • Animal Health

We just ordered a couple copies of this book about Environmental Sensing and Ardiuno from MakerShed.com.

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We think these devices would be great for sensing things in the environment (such as temperature, pressure, water quality, etc.), but we are also looking for ways to output that data.

 

If anyone has links, suggestions or even just wants to brainstorm ideas for how an Arduino or Raspberry Pi might be used at an aquarium (I work at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago), then let me know!

 

 

 

 

Re: Ideas for using the Raspberry Pi in the classroom

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    Thanks to everyone for their input, we will definitely be looking into some of these resources for the coming year. Recently, we have been working on something a bit different in addition to the sensors. We have a team of students who are building an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) who are looking to expand their control of the vehicle's motors via an arduino. We have begun to explore this control and have made significant progress, but aren't completely there yet and would love any additional input or resources.  We'll also be looking into adding some sensors to the vehicle at some point!

     

    Current state of progress:

     

    We have played around with using a Sabertooth motor driver along with the Arduino to control the motors, using a small joystick button for the control. We have successfully gotten one motor to run with the controls correctly using this set up, but have run into some trouble coding the second motor commands to run simultaneously using the same control boards. 

     

    We also ran into a technical problem after some time with the computer- something along the lines of "unplug the USB device that is drawing too much power" and were unable to reconnect our Arduino via USB to that particular computer after that notification popped up. Any input on this issue would also be great- we are unsure if it will be a recurring problem, but definitely don't want to keep getting stuck while building if it does continue to happen.

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    Thanks to everyone for their input, we will definitely be looking into some of these resources for the coming year. Recently, we have been working on something a bit different in addition to the sensors. We have a team of students who are building an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) who are looking to expand their control of the vehicle's motors via an arduino. We have begun to explore this control and have made significant progress, but aren't completely there yet and would love any additional input or resources.  We'll also be looking into adding some sensors to the vehicle at some point!

     

    Current state of progress:

     

    We have played around with using a Sabertooth motor driver along with the Arduino to control the motors, using a small joystick button for the control. We have successfully gotten one motor to run with the controls correctly using this set up, but have run into some trouble coding the second motor commands to run simultaneously using the same control boards. 

     

    We also ran into a technical problem after some time with the computer- something along the lines of "unplug the USB device that is drawing too much power" and were unable to reconnect our Arduino via USB to that particular computer after that notification popped up. Any input on this issue would also be great- we are unsure if it will be a recurring problem, but definitely don't want to keep getting stuck while building if it does continue to happen.

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