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Wireless Pool Alarm, WatchDuck

June 16, 2011 By: admin Category: Alarm, Microcontroller, Monitoring, PIC, Project No Comments →

The WatchDuck is an accelerometer-based low cost wireless pool alarm. It will give an alert when a child or an object fell into water. All operation in this project is controlled by PIC 18F23K20 microcontroller. The alarm is composed of two parts: the detector and the base station. The detector is using an accelerometer module […]

Automatic Amateur Radio Satellite Tracking

April 22, 2011 By: admin Category: Control, Microcontroller, Motor, Project No Comments →

The project goal is to build a battery powered azimuth and elevation antenna positioner, using inexpensive hobby servo motors and gearboxes, for portable operation. This project allows portable satellite tracking is done automatically (operate hands-free).

Parallax Vineyard Monitor

January 16, 2011 By: admin Category: Data Acquisition, Digital, Microcontroller, Monitoring, Project, Sensor, Wireless No Comments →

This vineyard monitor project is built based on Parallax propeller chip. It consists of a weatherproof box that houses the electronics mounted on a PVC support pipe. The pipe is intended to be driven into the ground. The project will collect data like soil temperature and moisture, air temperature and humidity and solar radiation and […]

Multiplatform Oscilloscope Software

December 28, 2010 By: admin Category: Software, Tools No Comments →

Xoscillo is free oscilloscope software that acquires data using an arduino (with custom firmware) or a Parallax USB Oscilloscope. Aguaviva is developing this project to support more platform. This C#-based application features frequency analysis using FFT, auto detects the hardware, load and save waveforms, zoom in and out, open several waveforms at the same time, […]