Turn on Bee and HiveAs long as the units are close enough (hundreds of feet with minimal obstruction, more with direct line of sight), the data should start showing up with the hive immediately.
Set up and test Apitronics hardwareSet up the Apitronics Bees and Beaglebone Black Hive to make sure all the hardware is working. They should just work out of the box, but the firmware for both the Apitronics Bee and the Apitronics Hive are still...
Reprogram the Apitronics BeeProgram the Apitronics Bee with this firmware that sends the load cell measurement back to the Apitronics Hive along with onboard temperature and battery voltage.Here is a GitHub repository with the Apitronics Bee firmware...
Calibrate the scale with a known weight.Once the scale sensor is defined in the CouchDB on the Beaglebone Black Hive, you're ready to calibrate the scale. You could do this in the AHX711.h library, but I wanted to be able to calibrate the data remotely,...
Create a 50/50 mixture of rosin and bee wax in a glass petri dish. Put the dish on magnetic stirrer, on very low heat (I’ve broken several dishes due to ignorance of kitchen basics). After a few minutes, the solid mixture is melted into a liquid.
Stack the I/O Expansion Shield on the Arduino UNO.Take the Heart Rate Sensor Module and put the strap through the holes in the modules so that you can wrap on your finger, wrist, earlobe or other areas where it has contact with your...
Add the HX711 sensor board to the Apitronics Bee.Connect the 4 wires from the scale to the 9-pin plug that passes through the weatherproof enclosure. These wires should be connected on the inside of the enclosure to E-, E+ (for excitation + and -) and...
Optional 3D Printed Jacket Module CaseDownload the Base and Top to the case and print them on your favorite RepRap OpenSource 3D Printer. It should come out looking similar to this(colors may vary ;) ):The headphone jack hole may need to be cleaned up...
Now, how do we control garage doors? Older garage doors was simple, they have 2 wire system. Connect 2 wires, and garage door is started opening. or closing. Connect wires thru capacitor, and light goes on or off. New garage doors have something...
Print #1 (Floral Line Art) So now the question is, what to print first? I went to my favorite resource for graphics and downloaded a floral single-line SVG. The plotter printed it like a champ. Clean crisp lines on just some plain colored copy paper....