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| shanlter | "@ramarro totally agree! When I first use their sensors, I also have the same problem. I asked them and was told to use several Arduino boards for e..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ramarro | "@shanlter did you have the opportunities to talk with dfrobot team? i have purchased a ph shield from them, and after some experiment i noticed th..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| shanlter | "@MadTinker, according to my knowledge, the reason why to use "isolation" is to avoid interrupting between sensors. Both OPR and EC need isolation. ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| shanlter | "Hi @MadTinker, thanks for your question! I just saw your questions around dataloggers for pH! I think DFRobots' isolation module is not online yet ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| MadTinker | "This is great! I'm starting an effort that will involve the parallel build of a simple in situ data logger (e.g. Riffle or maybe Cave Pearl) and a ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "I really appreciate the encouragement guys. But I need at least a month before I could do anything about it. We've already turning away other offer..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "For starters, we would be very interested in cross posting your last post on our blog -- i think even if there's more you'd like to add to it, many..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "I strongly echo everything Chris said - and honestly, we'd really love to give your work more exposure -- I wonder if even simply posting a lot of ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Aside form the research goals, I've always wanted to create something that everyone could make on their own. And don't worry about the soldering - ..." | Read more » | over 7 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 7 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Hi Warren, I think that would be a good idea for the screw-terminal logger, as it's a generic, and would provide people with lots of flexibility to..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "@warren awards a barnstar to EdMallon for their awesome contribution! " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, Ed - thanks so much, I always love your updates. We'd love to feature your work more prominently -- would you be interested in posting this upd..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "While breadboard loggers are quick, the connections tend to be a bit too fragile for serious testing. So I've come up with a configuration based on..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Responses from the mailing lists: Hi Carol! So excited to work on this at Barnraising! Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the data loggers will ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Carol chipped in on the mailing lists: My first question is, similar to Chris's, what can the data loggers do? Conductivity? Turbidity? pH, dissol..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Okay, now I understand the question. It's really helpful to know what data logger hardware you will have. You will have a Nano Logger Kit. You will..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Hi Chris, thanks a bunch! I'm hoping we can work on developing out an activity of two for people to do in first experimenting with data loggers as ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "These are some really good questions, many of which get at the question of "constraints" -- i.e. what constraints are you designing towards? A spec..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Stevie, it sounds like you are looking for demonstrations of things data loggers can do. That really depends on what logger(s) you have and what se..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Possibly some of the Coqui activities (which were designed for real-time monitoring, not data logging) could be adapted for a data logger? https:/..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "@xose - awesome. And even "having some troubles" is ok to post -- if we break out the issues perhaps there are folks who can chime in with solution..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| xose | "Wooow!! Great @warren! I'm having some troubles with the orange pi by now. This week we'll lift up a raspberry 2 with both a drone and a ballon. Le..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "@xose - i've tagged it as an activity, but if other related (next steps) activities were added, and a Q+A section, this could be the first post on ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago |