One of the main reasons that I started analog.io was because I had an interest in using internet connected sensors to measure various sensors inside of bee hives. The first thing that I wanted to do was measure the Temperature and Humidity of a set of...
One of the first things we came across was the inability of many humidity sensors to reliably report Relative Humidity (RH) above 75%. In particular the DHT21 style sensors saturated at about that point and were rendered useless until the RH dropped...
Data collection has started, as below: I've carefully chosen data parameters that seem to be important from past experience. The most obvious environmental parameter to collect is sun intensity as it's extremely unlikely that the bees will try and swarm...
This isn't current news but I figured that I would write a post about it. Back in April I was very honored to be featured in a blog post from Sparkfun. https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1808I really enjoy working with everyone at Sparkfun, they've given...
Here are some of the air inlet/outlet design concepts, help us to choose wisely... 1. Vader 2. Eve 3. Bee hive ---------- more ----------More images and details This is a cross section of the modular air IO valve, with 30x10 mm PWM fan (Not shown...
After I got the HX711 working for the first time (after days of last-minute debugging code -- such a great feeling at the end!) I immediately walked away from the project and let it collect data for a couple of hours. The scale and Apitronics Bee were...
So I've talked a lot about both my 915 MHz Droplet radios as well as the new 2.4GHz MSP430 Sensor node. What I have been thinking about lately is creating a cluster of 2.4GHz nodes, use them to transmit from inside of the bee hive and then have a 915MHz...
This week on the Hacklet, we’re spending some time looking at bugs and fire! First up we have [Noel] who is saving the bees with Bee-O-Neo-Tweet-O. Bees are incredibly important, both to Earth’s ecosystem and the food chain we humans need to survive....
I'm back on this project as a priority and making some headway. I began prototyping MCUs and sensors a few weeks ago and have created the following test bed/prototype: ESP8266 MCU (will be the controller of the Remote Terminal Unit)32x128 OLED...
Currently I can't get my hands on a Laser Bee, so instead I'm using a Universal Bee as a temporary prototype before I shift over to the laser bee, given that the SDK and registers are mainly the same. I don't intend for this device to be updated much...
I did not elaborate on my direction with some of the more unusual sensors. Here are a few quick thoughts:The various photodetectors will be used to measure the illumination with a rough spectral breakout. In other words IR, R, G, B, and UV.Additionally...
I published a summary of my previous scale project. In this project I hacked a postal scale that was purchased off of Amazon. This has been working really well, really the only complaint is that the scale area is smaller than the Hive base so things...
Hardware iterations:Once you get your prototype hardware kinda' running, you suddenly find yourself with the issue of carrying on development without breaking what you already have. For software this is relatively easy, use CVS, git or whatever your...
Before diving into the nitty-gritty of the robot design I wanted to take a moment and lay out a brief description of the network and base robot architecture. Below is a block diagram and description of both the network topology and the configuration...
A month or two ago I was lucky enough to he selected to trial the titular wifi module by dfrobot: ESP WiFi BeeI applied for the review programme as I was looking for some simple methods of adding wifi to my arduino-based control unit. The module came...