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== Projects ==
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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.
* [[HIP:PMP - Summer]]
 
  
* [[HIP:PMP]]
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== Introduction ==
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* [[About Us|More About Us]]
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* [[New Member Orientation]]
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* [[Members]]
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* [[Man|Manuals]]
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==Current Projects==
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* [[Building monitoring|Energy monitoring]] (including fixing IP numbers for new network configuration)
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* [[eDisplay]]
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* [[Weather Station]]
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* [[Proto Backup]]
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* [[Solar Array]]
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* [[Wind Turbine]]
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* [[House Demo]]
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== Less Current Projects ==
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* [[Nicaragua Weather Stations]]
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* [[Hazard Platform]]
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* [[Proto Upgrade]]
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* [[Webcam|Webcam filming Phase 2 construction]]
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* Cleaning and organizing, prepare to move
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* Indoor air monitoring
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** [[Joseph Moore Museum Air Monitoring|Joseph Moore Museum]]
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** New building
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* [[Mosquitto]]
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* Earthquake detection - AG, GC
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* [[Energy Wars Display|Energy Wars setup]] - GC
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* [https://github.com/EarlhamCS EarlhamCS GitHub]
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== Established Projects ==
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'''Green Science''' - http://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/Green_Science
  
==March 6, 2006==
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'''Displays & Energy monitoring'''
Alan, Colin, Tom, Maduna, Tom, Bryan, Jeff, Charlie
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*[[Green Zone Kiosk]]
* Alex did the mojo and we now have DBI/DBD on the pmp.  Next is finish transactions and cleanup code. 
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*[[eDisplay Code]]
* Jeff emailed ARM about the watchdog timer, no word yet.  Charlie will look at the BIOS setting. 
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*[[Desktop Board For Display]]
* Colin will look into how to do damping of the direction and speed readimg.
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*[[Energy Wars Display]]
* Colin will fix the graphs including the date ranges.
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*[[Google Charts API]]
* Breadboard Wed at 1p
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*[[Energy Monitoring Analysis]]
* 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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*[[Energy Monitoring Hardware]]
* Windchill calculation, both the Davis interface firmware upgrade and the new formula.  Bryan.
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*[[Electrical Energy Normalization]]
* X10 systems.  Tom waded into this and found some stuff.  Heyu.  Alan will get a serial controller.
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*[[Lilly Library TV Mount]]
* Use WECI tower for annenometer mountings.
 
* GPS.
 
  
==February 13, 2006==
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'''Energy Auditing'''
Alan, Jeff, Bryan, Colin, Maduna, Tom, Alex, Charlie
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* [http://cluster.earlham.edu/wiki/index.php/Blower_Door_Test_Instructions Blowerdoor Instructions]
* 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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* IR camera
* Use TV antenna for the tower.
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* Netbook
* Check the TS-5600 library.
 
* Watchdog timer (Jeff)
 
* Rain gauge (Tom, Maduna)
 
* GPS (Alex, Jeff), solar radiation (Colin, Maduna)
 
* 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.
 
  
==February 6, 2006==
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'''LittleFe'''
Tom, Colin, Alex, Maduna, Jeff, Bryan, Alan, Charlie
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* [[HIP:LittleFe Touchscreen qt Interface]]
* Do we have a calibration/accuracy problem WRT wind direction? Rest of the stuff listed below  (Colin, Alex, Bryan)
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* [[HIP:LittleFe Touchscreen Display]]
* GPS (Alex and Jeff)
 
* Watchdog timer (Jeff)
 
* Rain gauge, try plugging into the interface and testing (Maduna, Tom)
 
  
==January 30, 2006==
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'''Power Production'''
Colin, Alex, Tom, Jeff, Bryan, Maduna, Alan, Charlie
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* [[HIP:Outback Serial Interface]]
*Laid-out the architecture of the quark-pmp-wind components and the interfaces. 
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* [[miller-wind-design|Miller Farm Wind Project]]
*Look at the TS-5600 library interface for reading ports rather than /dev/...
 
*Put together a circuit based on a voltage regulator supplied by the board power port.
 
  
==Organization Meeting - January 11, 2006==
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'''Field Science'''
Alex, Bryan, Colin, Tom, Maduna, Jeff, Charlie
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* Keck H2O Monitoring
* Regular meetings this semester will be on Monday at 12p in the Dennis 4th lab.
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** [[HIP::Keck]]
* Wind speed and direction - data aquisition/data transfer/packaging/deployment (Colin, Jeff, Alex, Bryan)
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** [[HIP:YSI-600R|YSI 600R Sonde Unit]]
* GPS - data aquisition/data transfer/packaging/deployment/ntpd/clients (Alex, Jeff)
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** [[HIP:YSI-650MDS|YSI 650 Multiparameter Display System]]
* Rain gauge - data aquistion/data transfer/visualization (Tom, Maduna)
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* [[HIP:PMP]]
* Solar radiation - data aquistion/data transfer (Colin, Maduna)
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*[[PMP]]
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* [[HIP:Temperature Sensors]]
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* [[HIP:TempProbe|RTPB3-12 Temperature Probe]]
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* [[HIP:TS7400|TS7400]]
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* [[HIP:eTrexGPS|eTrex GPS]]
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* [[HIP:differential-gps|Differential GPS]]
  
==To Do==
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'''Publications'''
Last updated 2006-02-05
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* [[HIP:PosterSession|PosterSession]]
* Fix wind chill calculation, use new formula
 
* Figure-out watchdog timer on PMP
 
* Backup on PMP - just needs to be put in cron (Tom)
 
* Wind data for this area (Mary)
 
* Problems with direction - determine input voltage and calibrate to that (Alex and Colin)
 
** Stable voltage needed, e.g. when WiFi card is removed voltage fluctuates.  Measure at start and end, if equal than ok. 
 
* Porting wind speed and direction software and setup to pmp, made some progress (Mary, Alex, Colin)
 
** Speed working now, using sigalarm(), need a resistor?  DIO for power.
 
** Direction isn't working yet.
 
** Next week on roof?
 
** Two weeks in field?
 
* Sleep and wake on pmp1 with watchdog timer (Mary)
 
* Weather Cam is working again, cluster camera to be setup in D209.
 
* RP&L Weather data, contact Gus Duke.  Indiana American Water has a link which she sent. (Mary, Charlie)
 
* Rain guage, Mary has worked on it but it's not working.  (Mary, Charlie)
 
* Solar radiation sensor, continues to make progress, conversion and data comparison (Colin)
 
** How to set angle/calibration.
 
* GPS setup with time server (Tom)
 
  
Useful Support Documents from Davis Instruments:
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'''Weather Station'''
* http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/support_docs.asp?dtype=2
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*[[WeeWX]]
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*[[Weather Station]]
  
Other local data that can easily be harvested: Farmland
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'''Misc'''
* http://shadow.agry.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/map_patrol/images/cd_zen.map?162,104
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* [[NTP Server]]
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* [[QCN Seismic Measurement]]
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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:TS-GSM1|TS-GSM1 cell modem]]
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* [[HIP:Traffic Cam]]
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* [[Digi PortServer TS 2]], SN=V40611264
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* [[HIP:Summer 2009 Project Page]]
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* [[Arduino Yun]]
  
Hardware:
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== Other ==
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'''Archived Notes / To Do Lists'''
  
*PMP
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[[Fall 2012]] <br>
** Technologic Systems TS56000 single board computer running Linux off a SANDisk.
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[[Spring 2012]] <br>
** URL for the board and documentation
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[[Fall 2011]] <br>
** To Do
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[[Spring 2011]] <br>
*** Port threaded anemometer code, change code to use local analog/digital inputs
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[[Summer 2010]] <br>
*** Setup NFS mounting of / on the pmp from proto
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[[Spring 2010]] <br>
*** Test analog and digital inputs
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[[October 2009]] <br>
*** Setup and test WiFi interface
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[[Winter 2009]] <br>
*** Test and document backup and recovery procedure
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[[2006]]
*** Identify and recover missing files from SANDisk
 
*** Design and implement data collection, sleep, and data transfer functions
 
  
*Anemometer
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'''Unsorted Content'''
** The Wind direction sends an analogue number. 
 
** The wind speed is the number of pulses per 2.25 second interval.  The number of pulses is the windspeed in MPH.
 
  
*We are using a [[Digi PortServer TS 2]], SN=V40611264
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*[http://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/HIP:Inventory INVENTORY] <br>
** URL of the documentation
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*For zoey, see inventory for list of items in the kit
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*Also see inventory for TIC and see manuals for directions on how to use it
  
*Rain guage:
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Other local data that can easily be harvested: Farmland
** Sends a pulse every time the cup switches.
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* http://shadow.agry.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/map_patrol/images/cd_zen.map?162,104

Latest revision as of 13:36, 9 November 2016

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.

Introduction

Current Projects

Less Current Projects

Established Projects

Green Science - http://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php/Green_Science

Displays & Energy monitoring

Energy Auditing

LittleFe

Power Production

Field Science

Publications

Weather Station

Misc

Other

Archived Notes / To Do Lists

Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Summer 2010
Spring 2010
October 2009
Winter 2009
2006

Unsorted Content

  • INVENTORY
  • For zoey, see inventory for list of items in the kit
  • Also see inventory for TIC and see manuals for directions on how to use it

Other local data that can easily be harvested: Farmland