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| cfastie | "The Arduino snow depth gauge seems to produce good data. It is an ESP8266 and laser rangefinder I2C sensor ($9 total cost). As expected data collec..." | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The sunlight is not an issue. For a winter-long monitoring goal, a few measurements every day are plenty, and those can be taken at night. With the..." | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I tried one of those little six dollar laser rangefinders (vl53lox) for measuring distance to snow. Those rangefinders don't work at all in sunligh..." | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I think a laser rangefinder might work well for this. Put it on a pole and point it downward to measure the distance from the rangefinder to the sn..." | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I have not heard of anyone using a microcontroller (Arduino or ESP board) to read data from an SD card. But maybe it is possible. A more common str..." | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I haven't tried that Feather combination. I have also never seen a list of Feather-Featherwing combinations that are incompatible. So I assume it w..." | Read more » | almost 4 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 4 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 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That will be an interesting project to make a 5v Pro Mini data logger. I guess it will also include a 5v microSD module (the ones in the Mini Pearl..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Ah, Arduino. Those DS3231 RTCs are designed to be used with a rechargeable coin cell (LIR2032) and they trickle current into the battery when curre..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Yes, I agree that this is a different approach to an issue that has had a lot of effort directed at software solutions. This is a purely hardware s..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Adam, Those thermoelectric fans are very smart. This guy on YouTube shows how to make one with a $3.00 thermoelectric module and parts recycled..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I like the idea of linking to other notes that set the stage for the current one. I was using the response:##### powertag for a while, but that doe..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks Jeff. That's a really interesting question. I did not include step by step instructions, so a complete novice would have to do some research..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That's a really good point that the En pin on the Feather can disable the regulator and reduce power consumption. We need a table of all the featur..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Ed, The new Mini Terminal Logger is brilliant. Those Nano terminal shields are a great find. They not only reduce the number of solder joints requ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "It appears that storing data in flash memory on an Arduino is not so easy. The PROGMEM keyword only works for writing constants before the main lo..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "It seems that it might be straightforward to store arrays of data in the 32k of flash memory in a 328p chip. Flash memory is non-volatile and your ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This is very clever. I wonder whether the memory in a Atmega 328p can be used to store data. I wonder if it is possible to access those data later...." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "There is a growing list of logger options and specs in a Google sheet. Please add information there if you know other stuff. " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That Openlog is tiny! It combines an Arduino 328p with a microSD card, but still needs an RTC. There are clones of it available for $7.00. I have ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks for the tip about cheaper SD card modules and RTC modules. I see now how you made your pro-mini logger for $13.00. One of those sensors I l..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I am really impressed with the new tutorial. Thanks for that great effort. This definitely lowers the barrier for me to try this. I just dove into ..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago |