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| − | == Projects ==
| + | Hardware Interface Project (HIP) is a Computer Science Applied Group. We work closely with the Green Science Applied Group. All Applied Groups are interdisciplinary by nature, and so we might have students from other majors. |
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| − | * [[HIP:LittleFe Touchscreen qt Interface]] (LittleFe)
| + | == Introduction == |
| − | * [[HIP:LittleFe Touchscreen Display]] (LittleFe)
| + | * [[About Us|More About Us]] |
| − | * [[HIP:Outback Serial Interface]]
| + | * [[New Member Orientation]] |
| − | * [[miller-wind-design|Miller Farm Wind Project]] | + | * [[Members]] |
| − | * [[HIP:PMP]]
| + | * [[Man|Manuals]] |
| − | * [[HIP:Temperature Sensors]] | |
| − | * [[HIP:TS7400|TS7400]] | |
| − | * [[HIP::Keck]]
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| − | * [[HIP:YSI-600R|YSI 600R Sonde Unit]]
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| − | * [[HIP:YSI-650MDS|YSI 650 Multiparameter Display System]]
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| − | * [[HIP:displayWall|Display Wall]]
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| − | * [[HIP:a2d-pci|PCI-AI12-16]]
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| − | * [[HIP:TS-7000|TS-7000 Series (TS-Linux)]]
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| − | * [[HIP:eTrexGPS|eTrex GPS]]
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| − | * [[HIP:differential-gps|Differential GPS]]
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| − | * [[HIP:TS-GSM1|TS-GSM1 cell modem]]
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| − | * [[HIP:TempProbe|RTPB3-12 Temperature Probe]]
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| − | * [[HIP:PosterSession|PosterSession]] | |
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| − | '''Documentation for Portable Units'''<br>
| + | ==Current Projects== |
| − | *[https://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/HIP:YSI-650MDS SONDES AND 650] <br> | + | * [[Building monitoring|Energy monitoring]] (including fixing IP numbers for new network configuration) |
| − | *[https://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/HIP:YSI-600R YSI 600R sonde unit] <br> | + | * [[eDisplay]] |
| − | *[https://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/HIP:differential-gps DIFFERENTIAL GPS] <br> | + | * [[Weather Station]] |
| − | *[https://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/HIP:Inventory INVENTORY] <br> | + | * [[Proto Backup]] |
| − | *For zoey, see inventory for list of items in the kit | + | * [[Solar Array]] |
| − | *Also see inventory for TIC and see manuals for directions on how to use it | + | * [[Wind Turbine]] |
| | + | * [[House Demo]] |
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| − | ==Fall 2012== | + | == Less Current Projects == |
| − | ''Projects:''
| + | * [[Nicaragua Weather Stations]] |
| − | *TV Mount for Lilly Library | + | * [[Hazard Platform]] |
| − | ** Make sure pen driver starts up as soon as machine is turned on | + | * [[Proto Upgrade]] |
| − | ** Make sure chromium starts automatically when machine is turned on | + | * [[Webcam|Webcam filming Phase 2 construction]] |
| − | ** Make sure chromium goes to full screen as soon as it is initiated | + | * Cleaning and organizing, prepare to move |
| − | ** Set the home web page | + | * Indoor air monitoring |
| − | ** Fix motion sensor
| + | ** [[Joseph Moore Museum Air Monitoring|Joseph Moore Museum]] |
| − | ** Set keyboard in background
| + | ** New building |
| − | ** Setup sshd
| + | * [[Mosquitto]] |
| − | ** Disable ubuntu updates (because the pup us updates allow people to get acces to machine and its programs). We want to make a kiosk out of this station (just as it is on the Dennis entrance)
| + | * Earthquake detection - AG, GC |
| − | ** Figure out if we can have 2 pens connected at the same time (left and right) (With the center mount of the holder is this is necessary?) | + | * [[Energy Wars Display|Energy Wars setup]] - GC |
| − | ** Figure out sensor motion and make sure its driver starts automatically as well. | + | * [https://github.com/EarlhamCS EarlhamCS GitHub] |
| − | ** Improve about us - pictures | |
| − | ** Signage in Lilly (maybe "green map") | |
| − | ** Physical box for suggestions and improvements | |
| − | Links with Information about Kioskification:
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| − | **[http://jacob.steelsmith.org/category/section/ubuntu-kiosk-edition first] | |
| − | **[http://www.instructables.com/id/Setting-Up-Ubuntu-as-a-Kiosk-Web-Appliance/ second]
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| − | **[http://www.ianatkinson.net/computing/operakiosk.htm third]
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| − | *eDisplay v2
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| − | ** Use source control
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| − | ** Fix recent introduced crashing
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| − | ** Split, total and all other buildings in to 2 separate charts - one above other (Since we have a larger screen now)
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| | + | == Established Projects == |
| | + | '''Green Science''' - http://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/Green_Science |
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| | + | '''Displays & Energy monitoring''' |
| | + | *[[Green Zone Kiosk]] |
| | + | *[[eDisplay Code]] |
| | + | *[[Desktop Board For Display]] |
| | + | *[[Energy Wars Display]] |
| | + | *[[Google Charts API]] |
| | + | *[[Energy Monitoring Analysis]] |
| | + | *[[Energy Monitoring Hardware]] |
| | + | *[[Electrical Energy Normalization]] |
| | + | *[[Lilly Library TV Mount]] |
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| − | *Data normalization | + | '''Energy Auditing''' |
| | + | * [http://cluster.earlham.edu/wiki/index.php/Blower_Door_Test_Instructions Blowerdoor Instructions] |
| | + | * IR camera |
| | + | * Netbook |
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| − | *Merge CS Wikis
| + | '''LittleFe''' |
| − | **Done. All information from cluster wiki and wiki.cs.earlham.edu is now on wiki.cs.earlham.edu. | + | * [[HIP:LittleFe Touchscreen qt Interface]] |
| − | *Energy Wars 2012 Prep. | + | * [[HIP:LittleFe Touchscreen Display]] |
| − | [[Building monitoring]] | |
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| − | ''Notes from the 2 February 2012 meeting:'' | + | '''Power Production''' |
| − | * Blower door training was done for 3 groups, nice work gang.
| + | * [[HIP:Outback Serial Interface]] |
| − | ** Darken the axis labels on the energy display (Gustavo, Tristan)
| + | * [[miller-wind-design|Miller Farm Wind Project]] |
| − | ** Develop a small weather display, integrate into energy display, send to Content folks (Gustavo, Tristan)
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| − | ** Prepare for electrical consumption data from multiple buildings (Gustavo, Tristan)
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| − | ** Re-consider the locations and types of screens to use for the eDisplays, next lunch meeting (All)
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| − | *** Screen savers on all the ECS lab machines (Ben to speak with Tom Steffes)
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| − | *** Lilly Library
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| − | *** Earlham Hall
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| − | *** Carpenter
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| − | *** Runyon
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| − | *** Consider iPads for Admissions and the President's office lounge area
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| − | *** For larger units consider an automagic rotating display rather than a remote control
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| − | ** Degree day calculations based on Dick Smith's email (Corey)
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| − | ** Weather data to Postgres (Ivan, Sotheary | |
| − | ** Solar array power production to Postgres (Tristan, Sotheary) | |
| − | ** SEPAM addressing (Ivan, Mikel, Ben)
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| − | ** Button-up solar array wiring (Ben, Alex)
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| − | ** Weather station installation fixup (Ivan, Sotheary, Corey)
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| − | == Spring 2012 ==
| + | '''Field Science''' |
| − | ''Projects'' | + | * Keck H2O Monitoring |
| − | *Weather Station | + | ** [[HIP::Keck]] |
| − | *[[Building monitoring]] | + | ** [[HIP:YSI-600R|YSI 600R Sonde Unit]] |
| − | *Solar cleanup | + | ** [[HIP:YSI-650MDS|YSI 650 Multiparameter Display System]] |
| − | *Raise wind turbine | + | * [[HIP:PMP]] |
| − | *plug in Edisplay to solar inverter | + | *[[PMP]] |
| − | *solar / wind power production into database | + | * [[HIP:Temperature Sensors]] |
| | + | * [[HIP:TempProbe|RTPB3-12 Temperature Probe]] |
| | + | * [[HIP:TS7400|TS7400]] |
| | + | * [[HIP:eTrexGPS|eTrex GPS]] |
| | + | * [[HIP:differential-gps|Differential GPS]] |
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| − | == To Do Fall 2011 ==
| + | '''Publications''' |
| | + | * [[HIP:PosterSession|PosterSession]] |
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| − | * Fix network port for DELL (CP) - Sunday
| + | '''Weather Station''' |
| − | * Move weather data to postgress (IB) - Working on transfer script and writing directly to postgres, filter bogus data in a view
| + | *[[WeeWX]] |
| − | * Finish wiring on solar (TW, BS) - Waiting on wall clips, Ben to send Charlie the size
| + | *[[Weather Station]] |
| − | * Finish EDisplay (S, G) - Checking comment script, add weather, add more buildings when data is available
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| − | * Mount EDisplays (ALL) - Networking on Sunday
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| − | * Figure out best high visibility project (ALL) - Ben working on boiler spec and setting-up a Friday lunch meeting with Portland company.
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| − | * Figure out SEPAM addressing (BS, CP) - Maintenance is hiring a Scheinder Electric person who will do this while on-campus
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| − | * Engineer individual building monitors (BS) - Considering a Square D unit since we work with a lot of that gear already.
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| − | * Information sign (TW, IB)
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| − | * Degree day calculations (Corey) | |
| − | * Occupancy normalization - (All) Consider number of person hours per building per day. | |
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| − | == Spring 2011 ==
| + | '''Misc''' |
| − | 5 February Telecon
| + | * [[NTP Server]] |
| − | * Touchscreen display | + | * [[QCN Seismic Measurement]] |
| − | * GVStreamer setup | + | * [[HIP:displayWall|Display Wall]] |
| − | * PM8 monitoring | + | * [[HIP:a2d-pci|PCI-AI12-16]] |
| − | *Clean forth floor (Dennis and London ;)) | + | * [[HIP:TS-7000|TS-7000 Series (TS-Linux)]] |
| | + | * [[HIP:TS-GSM1|TS-GSM1 cell modem]] |
| | + | * [[HIP:Traffic Cam]] |
| | + | * [[Digi PortServer TS 2]], SN=V40611264 |
| | + | * [[HIP:Summer 2009 Project Page]] |
| | + | * [[Arduino Yun]] |
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| − | ==To Do Summer 2010== | + | == Other == |
| − | * There is also a shared Google Doc (umm-Active?) that has this
| + | '''Archived Notes / To Do Lists''' |
| − | **GPS + Proto? (maybe not) + stewie
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| − | **Portable kits
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| − | ** Solar panel power production to database via infobomb
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| − | **Infobomb
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| − | **Weather
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| − | **Wind Generation
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| − | '''QUESTIONS''' | |
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| − | *What's happening with the weather station-can we visualize
| + | [[Fall 2012]] <br> |
| − | <s> | + | [[Spring 2012]] <br> |
| − | *What can we do with the GPS on top of Dennis
| + | [[Fall 2011]] <br> |
| − | </s> | + | [[Spring 2011]] <br> |
| − | *Whom are we supposed to talk to about the portable kits
| + | [[Summer 2010]] <br> |
| − | <s> | + | [[Spring 2010]] <br> |
| − | *how, and where can I find documentation for the GPS?
| + | [[October 2009]] <br> |
| − | *Can we get a windows OS for Zoey?
| + | [[Winter 2009]] <br> |
| − | </s> | + | [[2006]] |
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| − | == To Do Start of Semester 2010==
| + | '''Unsorted Content''' |
| − | **install Weather Display for Linux Console (no X Windows) on proto
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| − | **Do documantation for the packages and find the TIC (Ben Johnson and Gab in Physics)
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| − | **Fiddle with sondes and infobomb and see if you can get something out of it.
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| − | **Find source code for consolewd
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| − | **ask DPalin to if he can send a copy of his config.txt, and if he has the source code.
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| − | **Do the documetation.
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| − | == To Do October 2009 ==
| + | *[http://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/HIP:Inventory INVENTORY] <br> |
| − | *List of things to talk about
| + | *For zoey, see inventory for list of items in the kit |
| − | **wind
| + | *Also see inventory for TIC and see manuals for directions on how to use it |
| − | **weather station
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| − | **water sonds
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| − | **Denis wind
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| − | *List of things to do
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| − | **dinner at miller farm on Sunday night
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| − | **move wind gen to miller farm on sunday
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| − | **move weather station
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| − | **debug Django(Charlie)
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| − | ==May 11, 2009==
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| − | *Created [[HIP:summer2009| Project Page for Summer 2009]]
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| − | == To Do Winter 2009 ==
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| − | *Work on the water monitoring devices
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| − | *Work on the weather
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| − | *Work on wind
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| − | '''Questions'''
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| − | *should we wash the sonds?
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| − | *Do we have some of the sond "condoms"?
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| − | *Are we going to have Zoey monitoring
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| − | the weather or we we are gonna find another
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| − | machine, or we are going to work on trying
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| − | to find a linux compatible
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| − | software??
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| − | **What is happening with the packages we prepared last summer??
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| − | Green Science Projects
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| − | *eDisplay
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| − | *Blower door test
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| − | *Keck unit
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| − | *Solar Hot water
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| − | *solar / wind power production into eDisplay
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| − | ==January 19, 2009==
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| − | *Our meeting time is on every Friday from 12:10 to 1 pm (with lunch).
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| − | *Projects working on:
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| − | **[https://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/TrafficCam traffic cam]
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| − | **water monitoring | |
| − | **short term weather forecasting (potentially)
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| − | ==March 6, 2006==
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| − | Alan, Colin, Tom, Maduna, Tom, Bryan, Jeff, Charlie
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| − | * Alex did the mojo and we now have DBI/DBD on the pmp. Next is finish transactions and cleanup code.
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| − | * Jeff emailed ARM about the watchdog timer, no word yet. Charlie will look at the BIOS setting.
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| − | * Colin will look into how to do damping of the direction and speed readimg.
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| − | * Colin will fix the graphs including the date ranges.
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| − | * Breadboard Wed at 1p
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| − | * Rainguage is working and recording data, congrats Tom and Maduna. Mounting, reseting discipline and technique, and display elements are all that's left.
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| − | * Windchill calculation, both the Davis interface firmware upgrade and the new formula. Bryan.
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| − | * X10 systems. Tom waded into this and found some stuff. Heyu. Alan will get a serial controller.
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| − | * Use WECI tower for annenometer mountings.
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| − | * GPS.
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| − | ==February 13, 2006==
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| − | Alan, Jeff, Bryan, Colin, Maduna, Tom, Alex, Charlie
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| − | * C to read raw value, Perl (called from cron) to buffer to file and send to server every N times, server inserts into database and returns ACK to Perl.
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| − | * Use TV antenna for the tower.
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| − | * Check the TS-5600 library.
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| − | * Watchdog timer (Jeff)
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| − | * Rain gauge (Tom, Maduna)
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| − | * GPS (Alex, Jeff), solar radiation (Colin, Maduna)
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| − | * Alan's applications - 1) small machine that does temp and displays via http and send X10 commands out the serial interface with X10 switches and dial-up and ethernet interfaces. 2) robot to go in a house under remote control, B/W (or color) video, up stairs, 30 minute, budget of about $2000.
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| − | ==February 6, 2006==
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| − | Tom, Colin, Alex, Maduna, Jeff, Bryan, Alan, Charlie
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| − | * Do we have a calibration/accuracy problem WRT wind direction? Rest of the stuff listed below (Colin, Alex, Bryan)
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| − | * GPS (Alex and Jeff)
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| − | * Watchdog timer (Jeff)
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| − | * Rain gauge, try plugging into the interface and testing (Maduna, Tom)
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| − | ==January 30, 2006==
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| − | Colin, Alex, Tom, Jeff, Bryan, Maduna, Alan, Charlie
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| − | *Laid-out the architecture of the quark-pmp-wind components and the interfaces.
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| − | *Look at the TS-5600 library interface for reading ports rather than /dev/...
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| − | *Put together a circuit based on a voltage regulator supplied by the board power port.
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| − | ==Organization Meeting - January 11, 2006==
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| − | Alex, Bryan, Colin, Tom, Maduna, Jeff, Charlie
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| − | * Regular meetings this semester will be on Monday at 12p in the Dennis 4th lab.
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| − | * Wind speed and direction - data aquisition/data transfer/packaging/deployment (Colin, Jeff, Alex, Bryan)
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| − | * GPS - data aquisition/data transfer/packaging/deployment/ntpd/clients (Alex, Jeff)
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| − | * Rain gauge - data aquistion/data transfer/visualization (Tom, Maduna)
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| − | * Solar radiation - data aquistion/data transfer (Colin, Maduna) | |
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| − | ==To Do February 2006 ==
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| − | * Fix wind chill calculation, use new formula
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| − | * Figure-out watchdog timer on PMP
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| − | * Backup on PMP - just needs to be put in cron (Tom)
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| − | * Wind data for this area (Mary)
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| − | * Problems with direction - determine input voltage and calibrate to that (Alex and Colin)
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| − | ** Stable voltage needed, e.g. when WiFi card is removed voltage fluctuates. Measure at start and end, if equal than ok.
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| − | * Porting wind speed and direction software and setup to pmp, made some progress (Mary, Alex, Colin)
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| − | ** Speed working now, using sigalarm(), need a resistor? DIO for power.
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| − | ** Direction isn't working yet.
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| − | ** Next week on roof?
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| − | ** Two weeks in field?
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| − | * Sleep and wake on pmp1 with watchdog timer (Mary)
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| − | * Weather Cam is working again, cluster camera to be setup in D209.
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| − | * RP&L Weather data, contact Gus Duke. Indiana American Water has a link which she sent. (Mary, Charlie)
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| − | * Rain guage, Mary has worked on it but it's not working. (Mary, Charlie)
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| − | * Solar radiation sensor, continues to make progress, conversion and data comparison (Colin)
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| − | ** How to set angle/calibration.
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| − | * GPS setup with time server (Tom)
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| − | Useful Support Documents from Davis Instruments:
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| − | * http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/support_docs.asp?dtype=2
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| | Other local data that can easily be harvested: Farmland | | Other local data that can easily be harvested: Farmland |
| | * http://shadow.agry.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/map_patrol/images/cd_zen.map?162,104 | | * http://shadow.agry.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/map_patrol/images/cd_zen.map?162,104 |
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| − | Hardware:
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| − | *PMP
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| − | ** Technologic Systems TS56000 single board computer running Linux off a SANDisk.
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| − | ** URL for the board and documentation
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| − | ** To Do
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| − | *** Port threaded anemometer code, change code to use local analog/digital inputs
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| − | *** Setup NFS mounting of / on the pmp from proto
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| − | *** Test analog and digital inputs
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| − | *** Setup and test WiFi interface
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| − | *** Test and document backup and recovery procedure
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| − | *** Identify and recover missing files from SANDisk
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| − | *** Design and implement data collection, sleep, and data transfer functions
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| − | *Anemometer
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| − | ** The Wind direction sends an analogue number.
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| − | ** The wind speed is the number of pulses per 2.25 second interval. The number of pulses is the windspeed in MPH.
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| − | *We are using a [[Digi PortServer TS 2]], SN=V40611264
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| − | ** URL of the documentation
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| − | *Rain guage:
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| − | ** Sends a pulse every time the cup switches.
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