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Weather and Timelapse Network sensor code
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Hardware (Raspberry Pi Zero) #3

Closed nicholasfm closed 7 years ago

nicholasfm commented 8 years ago

V1.3 of the Raspberry Pi Zero has been released. I see it as being a good option for our sensor now that it support the camera, uses less power and and space, and is cheaper.

https://www.adafruit.com/products/2885

Currently out of stock. We should buy 4 (?) when they're back out?

We also need to thing about how to better secure the wiring in the sensor. The breadboard might do the job for now, but we'll need to have it hardwired before it can be deployed beyond experimentally.

joshua-wx commented 8 years ago

Can we allocate one pi0 to improving the radar orientation sensor? (If so, I'll move this to the UQ-XPOL issue page) I'll also need one of these :gift: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1231

I'll setup the pi to display the orientation info on a simple web page which can be accessed from any device on the wifi network. I may also use this pi webserver to serve realtime UQ-XPOL images from pyART to any device. So many uses for one pi.

nicholasfm commented 8 years ago

Certainly. At only 1 Ghz though, maybe a Pi 3 would be better than the pi 0 for this for processing radar imagery?

It would be just awesome to have that coming up in real time!!!

nicholasfm commented 7 years ago

Raspberry Pi Zero could be interesting for future iterations, but design will revolve around the Pi 3 for now.