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Geek Skunk-Works: RF Propagation Modeling & a Field Test
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Geeky Stuff I do. Thursday, March 13, 2014. RF Propagation Modeling and a Field Test. One of the biggest risks of this project hinges on the fact that the remote weather station needs to be able to connect back to my base station, or it has no chance of success. Given that, I decided to undertake some RF Propagation Modeling to boost my confidence in the final system as well as determine such things as antenna placement (elevation angle/direction) and antenna type. For those looking for a technical revie...
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RPi900 - RPi900 - InMojo
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Long-range radio for the Raspberry Pi. Reviews: 1 (0% Positive). Joined: July 08, 2013. RPi900 is a long-range radio interface board for the Raspberry Pi. Combined with a $70 DNT900 radio transceiver from RFM, it provides a cheap, powerful solution for any project requiring long-range, wireless data transmission. For full details and tutorials, visit the RPi900 product website at http:/ rpi900.com. Open Source Hardware Definition v1.0. Creative Commons - Attribution - ShareAlike 3.0. 800 for first item,.
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Geek Skunk-Works: March 2014
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Geeky Stuff I do. Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Perils of a Part Time Project (and some solutions). In the Remote Garden Project. After explaining that the pile of wires was an intentional setup (and I had to re-wire everything) it became crystal clear I needed to formalize and document my setup abit. I could also understand her point of view, it was a pretty big mess. It also certainly needs some finishing to get into the final weather station. Slightly more order to the chaos, and gave me some more confid...
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MyGardenSpy
http://www.mygardenspy.com/about.html
MyGardenSpy is the 'front end' of a (Raspberry Pi) garden weather station operating miles from my home, fueled by solar, and connected over RF (with a DNT900), using the rpi900. Details on the build, design and all related hardware and software can be found on. The source code and setup notes also available on. For occasional updates on this project or others, follow my. The system providing the data for this site is pictured below. The image links to the original plan.
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Geek Skunk-Works: August 2014
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Geeky Stuff I do. Saturday, August 2, 2014. DNT900 / RPI900 / Remote Weather Station lessons learned. Debated breaking this up into a bunch of little posts, but I tend to slack on this blog, so here 'goes a smattering of lessons learned while working on the Remote Weather Station Project. Remains the best source for working with dnt900 in conjunction with the Raspberry Pi (and perhaps 2nd to the dnt900/dnt2400 manuals. Link Stability of PPP over DNT900. Shortly after getting the weather station in the fi...
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Geek Skunk-Works: April 2014
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Geeky Stuff I do. Monday, April 28, 2014. The case build (for the weather station), and installed in the field. Around the time I started to plan for the weather station case I came across a post on reddit that peaked my concern about heat management of the Raspberry Pi. Further reading on HackaDay. For the RPi. (Link also includes a shutdown script if critical temp is approached, something I may consider implementing.). Aside from the RPi, the case also needs to house the electronics that interface with...
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Geek Skunk-Works: DNT900 / RPI900 / Remote Weather Station lessons learned
http://geekskunkworks.blogspot.com/2014/08/dnt900-rpi900-remote-weather-station.html
Geeky Stuff I do. Saturday, August 2, 2014. DNT900 / RPI900 / Remote Weather Station lessons learned. Debated breaking this up into a bunch of little posts, but I tend to slack on this blog, so here 'goes a smattering of lessons learned while working on the Remote Weather Station Project. Remains the best source for working with dnt900 in conjunction with the Raspberry Pi (and perhaps 2nd to the dnt900/dnt2400 manuals. Link Stability of PPP over DNT900. Shortly after getting the weather station in the fi...
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Geek Skunk-Works: The case build (for the weather station), and installed in the field
http://geekskunkworks.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-case-build-for-weather-station-and.html
Geeky Stuff I do. Monday, April 28, 2014. The case build (for the weather station), and installed in the field. Around the time I started to plan for the weather station case I came across a post on reddit that peaked my concern about heat management of the Raspberry Pi. Further reading on HackaDay. For the RPi. (Link also includes a shutdown script if critical temp is approached, something I may consider implementing.). Aside from the RPi, the case also needs to house the electronics that interface with...
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Geek Skunk-Works: Setting up the Remote & Base Raspberry Pi with the RPi900/DNT900
http://geekskunkworks.blogspot.com/2014/03/setting-up-remote-base-raspberry-pi.html
Geeky Stuff I do. Thursday, March 6, 2014. Setting up the Remote and Base Raspberry Pi with the RPi900/DNT900. In fairly short order got my two RPi's running with a PPP. Network in the remote/base configuration as planned for in the last post. Closely following the tutorials on http:/ rpi900.com. Made it fairly easy work. The remote RPi now has a network connection over RF 900 MHz ISM band. The RPi900 tutorials call for rpirtscts (flow control). Dnt900 (line discipline software). And my RPi900/DNT900/PPP...
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