Hi everyone,
I've posted about the Cave Pearl Project before, but feedback from one of our new university collaborators suggested that the blog had grown into a spaghetti monster, and that they could not find anything. So I cobbled together a page that summarizes all the data logger build tutorials we've accumulated over the last three years, in a more or less logical order:
https://edwardmallon.wordpress.com/how-to-build-an-arduino-data-logger/The UNO stuff is for some teacher friends of mine, but the 'promini' style build works great with Moteinos, and Moteino Megas as long as you adjust for the pin locations and stick with 3.3v models.
Though none of our deployment sites are near any kind of internet access, I've had my eye on the Moteinos for one use that would be super helpful to the project: intercepting data from cheap wireless weather station sensors. And I mean the cheap ones because we would be using them for all kinds of weird experiments. For example we have one idea for mapping canopy rainfall pass-through rates that could easily take up to 50 tipping bucket gauges to do. I've been looking at the cheap the no-names ($20 each on eBay), the La Crosse series (about 25$ each), and the ones from Davis ($60 each). I am open to suggestions of other ones cheap enough that we won't loose too much money if they grow legs and walk away on their own (yes that happens...)
So I was wondering if anyone here knows of good libraries that already exist for these kinds of cheap sensors?
And also whether you could track multiple different rain gauges with the same Moteino base station (I know that's asking a lot... so perhaps the real question is how do you run more than one of these guys in the same general area without confusing the receivers)