windrose - Initial Release

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Published by sandrobenigno almost 3 years ago

windrose - WindRose-SensorTelemetry-0.1.0-alpha

First version of the Sensor Telemetry Utility.

The WindRose Monitor is a graphical user interface. Is a nice tool to check the cells individually. It shows the data from the active sensors, the age of the being as well as its neighborhood mapping. It also shows a graph so the user can watch the healthy of the cell's communication in all directions.

By using this tool with a USB to Serial Adapter, the user can make sure all is working as expected before attach the automaton to a mesh.

It's also possible to monitor any individual cell in a mesh when they are communicating each other. In this case you have to connect only two wires from the USB to Serial Adapter to the targeted cell's FTDI Port. Connecting all the pins there would trigger the reset line in the cell and would interfere on the communications. Instead connecting all pins you have to do as shown here (with the help of wire jumpers):

• GND and RX from the USB to Serial Adapter <----> GND and TX of the targeted cell's FTDI port respectively.

As a pre-release, this version has just the first seven sensor types implemented for testing. It can hold up to 32 types that we'll be implementing as the project evolves. For now, the implemented sensor types are:

1. Generic Coordinates (coord)
2. IMU/AHRS (angle)
3. Accelerometer (accel)
4. Gyroscope (ang_rate)
5. GPS Position (gps_pos)
6. Wind Speed and Direction (wind)
7. Light Intensity and Temperature (light)

To know more about the sensor types, please check the docs at: https://sandrobenigno.github.io/WindRose/html/structsensingdata.html

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Published by sandrobenigno over 4 years ago