Originally shared by Miser Technologies
No its not a Star Wars ship, its the Weather Sensor Module, and its almost ready for prime time. Note the boards are held firmly in place with all those pins, so I don’t need to worry about vibrations from windy days loosening the connections. Also another shout out to OSH Park for turning these boards around this time in 10 days. OK, well its getting closer to the stage where this thing goes outside, but I need to work through modifications to the Avatar Framework embedded code and PC/tablet/phone libraries first. Once I have the updated messaging it will be time to move it outside and then finalize the decoding and work on some GUI displays for the incoming data. Just to recap quickly on the Avatar Framework, we have 3 main pieces, Remote Modules (Sensor/Actuator), Framework services, and finally Applications. This will obviously be a Sensor type Avatar Remote Module, so I’ll need to have both sides between the remote module and the framework services updated before I can put this outside and just work on the pure software processing and display of data. Remember the Avatar Control System is private and able to run even when the internet goes out at your location, you won’t have a cloud and another company between you and your data, nor hackers trying to take control of it. Sure you’ll be able to publish selected data to the cloud, but you won’t need it to operate. I want to keep driving that fact home, as I think its a very important one, and hopefully you will understand why it is important also. So please follow along, drop me comments on any thing you would like to discuss. This project is taking the Scaleable Avatar Control System closer to the point at which I can share it with the maker masses to allow anyone to make small to really large control systems and share all or some of it with other makers. I hope you’ll continue to join me on this quest. Until next time Happy Making!
https://www.miser-tech.com/2016/05/esp8266-weather-the-shim-is-in-step-2/