Last year, I built a Compost Monitor to get real-time feedback on the temperature of my pile. After an initial unsuccessful attempt to build a probe, I was able to get a probe design that lasted most of the season. However, by the end of the year, when I pulled the probe from the pile, one […]
Month: March 2014
The current measurement mode in most multimeters is sufficient for many applications. However, when measuring the supply current of loads that draw current infrequently in small bursts, it becomes difficult to measure the real, average current consumption accurately due to the slow sample rate of the multimeter. Many wireless telemetry nodes present exactly such a […]
After developing several products focused on data acquisition, like the MRBW-RTS and a few currently in development like the MRB-DCCM (DCC Meter) and MRBW-DAQ (Data Acquisition node), we realized some of the ICs used in those designs would be useful on their own. To enable rapid development with these ICs, a series of ArduinoTM shields […]
Imagine that you could talk to the physical world as easily as you can read and write files on your computer. Imagine you could read a file, and read the temperature of an experiment on your bench or of your compost pile outside. Imagine you could simply write “on” to a file, and equipment across […]
