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Sarribas

The Arduino platform is accessible, inexpensive and an excellent gateway into the world of micro-controllers.

 

The Problem:

 

The element14 community is a hotbed of innovation and it's in the very nature of engineers to constantly progress, forging ever more elaborate projects and pushing their equipment to the limit. While the Arduino is an excellent piece of kit for hobbyists and beginning engineers, you may find your latest project requires more power than it can provide.

 

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  • Kinetis Freedom board is the best solution for portable weather station that provides general meteorological measurements: temperature, pressure, humidity.

  • I would use Atmel ATSAMA5D3 as "All-in-one measuring system".

    The system will be contained 7 reconfigurable devices:

    * Function generator,

    * Oscilloscope,

    * Multimeter (voltmeter, ammeter, ohmmeter),

    * Frequency response monitor,

    * Spectrum analyzer,

    * Logic analyzer,

    * Protocol analyzer for SPI, I2C, CAN, LIN.

    Signals can be connected to ATSAMA5D3 or analog processing board with analog to digital converters (ADC), digital to analog converters (DAC), programmable gain amplifiers (PGA), GPIO isolators.

    To access the virtual instrument (e.g. oscilloscope) user will be used one of ATSAMA5D3 communication ports (e.g. Ethernet 1Gb or USB).

  • The project I have in mind is a Mobile Health Station that goes into a wall dock as democratic as a fire extinguisher. It will be installed in offices, schools, sport clubs, banks, grocery stores and the like. Some of the features for the device:

    - Small enough to be portable.

    - Rechargeable battery (charging when it is in the dock).

    - GPS to publish its position in Google Maps.

    - Device-on-dock sensor that publish the device as active in Google Maps once it is removed from the dock. Grey can be used for inactive state, green for active state and some other color for in maintenance state.

    - Emergency call generated to primary emergency service when the device enters into active state.

    - Biomedical sensors collecting some of the needed metrics for a first diagnose: temperature, BPM, blood pressure, ECG wave. Vital signs are transmitted to a medical operations center.

    - WiFi transmission as the main communication channel. Can default to GSM connection if WiFi is not present.

    - To be used as a first mechanism for vital signs monitoring while the primary emergency service arrives.

    The kit I have in mind for this project is Atmel's SAMA5D3 Xplained.

    Thanks for the opportunity to post.

    Federico.-

  • In my spare time, after homework  , I would like to make a sort of agenda/homework planner which can login to google agenda. I would use a screen to show the things I have to do and some buttons to mark them as urgent, done etc. That would need some buttons and a display (with touch) and something that got an internet connection, so I would use the Atmel SAMA5D3 or one of the Rapsberry PI shields.

  • With very limited time to maintain our swimming pool I would use the SAMA5D3 as a pool monitoring controller.  It would be able to detect PH, Chlorine levels, Water Temp and possibly check the weather for Weeks with high humidity as that a chlorine monster.  Once the device detects low chlorine or PH it would use a look up table on  how much chlorine to add to the system.  I would also like it to send an email daily with the values it logged throughout the day and also remind me to put the Cleaning Robot in weekly.