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An output power display for my solar system. G2553 Launchpad, Blue 4-digit LED display, RS485 Transceiver SN65HVD12P (a low power, 3.3V version of the standard SN75176), this is all there is. All pins are used, 4 + 7 for the multiplexed LEDs (no resistors: Blue LED, 3.6V supply, output resistance of the pins limit the LED current) 3 pins for UART and send/receive for the SN65. 2 pins for 32768Hz xtal (I had this one soldered in on the LP, so why not use it) The MSP asks the inverter over RS485/Modbus "what is your current output power". After less than half a se
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I've got a bunch of sensors in my house uploading data to my phant repository - but I decided to start looking into placing sensors outside as well. I purchased some $2 solar sensors from Target (Apparently they're frequently available from the dollar store as well - I'll check into that) in the hopes that I could use them to power an MSP430. The ones I purchased only provide ~1.2v of power since they're single battery. They're 200maH as well, but I think that will likely be plenty for my uses. Since one wouldn't do it - I used two in series. At full power - that should be around 2
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Hello, my name is Rolando Correa. I am a Junior student at John Brown University located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. This semester I have been working in a project called "The Pool Boy" for my Embedded Systems class. Project Objective The purpose of this project was to design and assemble a pool skimming system. The final product, the Pool Boy, can autonomously navigate and filter the surface of an 800 square foot pool in under 60 minutes. It filters the surface of the pool via water intake system driven by high efficiency electrical motors. The Pool Boy follows a random path based o
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Here is my current project and entry for the Hackaday Prize: http://hackaday.io/project/2375-Garden_automation_and_sensor_network The main purpose originally was to have temperature monitoring of a small outdoor greenhouse, but then I decided to expand it from there. For more info look into the project page via the link above. Description originally from my hackaday projects page: This is a project to create a small network of sensors in the garden, and possibly some automation. The sensor data will be logged on an embedded Linux server (probably a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone)
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The same question is posted on reddit here: http://redd.it/18bkdl We are meeting with our project sponsors tonight and would love to have some kind of answer as to what's going on with our power draw. We are using an MSP430 Launchpad to develop a small project to be powered by a solar cell. Eventually we will have a single hardware interrupt, and a 30 Hz counter interrupt to update an LCD. We have estimated our power budget to be around 20 micro Watts. Oddly, with the software I have written and provided below, we are getting around 30 micro amps at 2.2V when we separate the MSP fro
