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| 1248252 | 2011-12-12 19:39:00 | In the latest PC World, there's an article that really grabbed my attention (page 84), on Arduino basics. I looked at the links provided by the author, and the idea of Arduino's kind of "strikes a chord" with me. For a while now I've toyed with the idea of getting rainfall and soil temperature records sent to me by either cell phone text message or e-mail and, this looks like a way, perhaps, to do it. In the past I've talked to a farm consultant, surveyors and a science teacher and they think it is "do-able", but with no clear idea of what could be best. I found this link here; www.mindkits.co.nz and it appears to be very close to what I might need. Any thoughts on the practicalities etc ? |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 1248253 | 2011-12-12 21:37:00 | Welcome to the world of Arduino, and Mindkits are probably the best source in New Zealand for them. I have found that Tim is most helpful and knowledgable. Having a project like yours in a great way to learn. My suggestion is that you break the project down into components and learn how to get that part working well and debugged before combining them. I am slowly building a replacement for my alarm system. I have a number of requirements including email alerts and logs. This requires three components, networking, interfacing with SDCard and email communications. I sorted networking first, then emailing second and am still working through interfacing with SDCards. Because I could not find any working examples I cobbled together some Arduino code for the EtherTen or Arduino + Ethernet shield that allows one to use NTP to obtain current time. This is need to produce fully compliant email messages that don't get trapped as spam. DHCP was a bit flakey and I wanted to get on with it to that got shelved to another day. I also setup sending email via SMTP. Unfortunately there is not enough room in the Arduino memory to include libraries to enable authenticated or encrypted communications via say Gmail so you will need access to an SMTP server that does not require encrypted communications. The code can be found here arduino.cc Have fun! |
HAL9000 (12736) | ||
| 1248254 | 2011-12-12 23:14:00 | Welcome to the wonderful world of the Arduino. I will certainly back up Hal9000 comment about MindKits. A lot of electronic rainfall gauges use a trip system where when a container fills with one mil of rain it will then over balance getting rid of the water and tripping a switch. The link you gave would not be very sensitive for small amounts of water. I'm doing a remote tank level sensor using an Xbee and an Ultrasonic Range Finder - XL-Maxsonar WR1. With further reading I got put off using the system provided in the link you gave. Corrosion being one reason. |
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| 1248255 | 2011-12-13 04:13:00 | Thanks Guys, for the enthusiastic response. This could be a project that could pale my recently completed "linux server" project, into insignificance. | jcr1 (893) | ||
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