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| cfastie | "The Plantower sensors require 4.5 to 5.5 volts. They work well with 5 volt Arduinos. They might not work properly with ESP8266 or ESP32 boards beca..." | Read more » | over 3 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "It is likely that the library that you do not want to use will provide the functionality that you are seeking. Adding these lines (and installing ..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "It looks like the PIC12LF will do what you need. There is also a low power 555 timer (TLC555) but it is not as low power as the PIC12LF. " | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The TPL5110 depends on getting a signal to the DONE pin, so I am not sure it can just send a pulse every eight seconds. The TPL5111 sets an enable ..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This is a fun idea. l assume the bioluminescence will be detected only at night since it will be swamped by sunlight during the day. At night, biol..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That's really useful information. I can see the advantage of having every scientific instrument accessible on the web or network. Being able to rem..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I’m intrigued by the idea that students should “learn the foundational skills with the command line that, in the long run, will make it much easier..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "It looks like you have made a really good start with this project. I agree that a challenge will be to avoid scaring away the neighborhood resident..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That's a great development. Thanks for alerting me to that. The key to this advance is knowing how to structure the KML code to define the color of..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Low power operation: To run your data logger for a long time on small batteries, you can put the Arduino and other components to sleep between log..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | " The link was finally fixed on May 16, 2019 when the view count was 1005. " | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The specs for the TPL-5110 timer IC say it can time intervals up to 7200 seconds (2 hours). It seems unlikely that it could be extended beyond that..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi tahnok, Those inexpensive anemometers seems to be missing an important feature of the expensive Kestrel and other fancy anemometers. They do no..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | " Writing data to eeprom will work with the limitations you outline. Adding a microSD card module and 128 MB SD card costs less than $2.00. Adding..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks, I have pinged the editor. The views on this research note have doubled since December. I wonder what they would be if the link had been co..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | " I just noticed that Limor Fried wrote an article for Make Magazine in January citing this research note and using one of the images. An editor ask..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | " The simplest modification to make the sketch save to SD card once per minute is to change the line: if (logData == 1) // wr..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Liz, it's great to know that you (or I guess your Mom) were well coiffed in the 80s, although I regret that you did not include photographic eviden..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Leslie, I will lend you anything you need. Tell me about your HEPA setup. You must already have a 5V Arduino, so all you need is three DuPont wires..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks Nick. It's good to know about the duplicate sensors. That's an intriguing engineering decision. Chris " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "There is another version of this sensor with the same specifications and the same price but it is about half the size. Does anyone know any reason ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "What do you guys think, is it okay to use the mean instead of the median? @pdhixenbaugh, @MadTinker, @Shanlter, @rockets " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Fig. 6 was created using Fritzing (http://fritzing.org/home/). The annotations and some editing were then done in PhotoShop. " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This is a great trick. I have made a bunch of these. If you are doing this with a cheap USB cable, you might want to check the red and black wires ..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago |