Contextual Electronics highlights stories of people using electronics to solve their problems. Listeners will hear how to use electronics in their own projects, by learning about new technologies and techniques. Tune in each week to hear a different guest and how they are using electronics to solve a problem in their life. Contextual Electronics is also an online education program. Started in 2014, CE pairs theory and practice for learning electronics. In 2020, we started the podcast to highlight stories of using electronics in real world contexts.
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CEP011 – Environmental Monitoring with Conservify
Welcome, Conservify! Our guests today
- Shah Selbe
- Jacob Lewallen
- Bradley Gawthrop
- Conservify is creating the FieldKit, a new modular system for environmental monitoring for research scientists and citizen scientists.
- FieldKit goes arboreal
- Testing for wild hardware
- Open source! Check out the hardware and firmware on Github
- The hardware
- FieldKit weather
- Fieldkit enclosure
- Upper / Lower / Modules
- Solar and batteries
- Winning The Hackaday Prize
Time tags:
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:11 Conservify team introduction
- 6:20 Deploying electronics into harsh environments
- 10:35 Using off the shelf components
- 12:29 Monitoring water levels in the Amazon river basin
- 14:20 How did scientists measure things in the past?
- 20:23 Correlating data in the past
- 22:49 Open source in field science
- 23:22 FieldKit Hardware
- 28:11 Accomodating different hardware needs
- 31:30 Hardware details
- 34:20 Power requirements for the field
- 36:48 Unexpected customer requests
- 38:40 Community contributed hardware / firmware
- 44:50 Data visualization
- 48:10 FieldKit.org demo
- 52:35 Publishing without hardware
- 55:28 Who is using FieldKit?
- 57:25 Pilot program with NYC
- 58:30 Upcoming air quality kit
- 1:03:10 Giveaway of FieldKit stations
- 1:05:22 Focus on affordability
- 1:06:14 Deploying more non-profit FieldKits
- 1:07:32 Where to find more info
- 1:08:35 Hackaday Prize
- 1:09:32 Summary and wrap-up
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