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Scott Ensign commented on the post, My Experience Building an EnviroDIY Monitoring Station 4 years, 5 months ago
Hi Vinay and Cheryl. It is great to see your teamwork sharing and troubleshooting! Just a tip: you can more easily share Arduino sketches on this website by posting questions and answering them in the Mayfly Data […]
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Scott Ensign replied to the topic How to dump contents of file on SD card to serial in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 5 months ago
Hi @Selbig. Here is a very simple sketch that prints a file from the microSD card to the serial monitor. It might be too rudimentary for your purposes, but thought I would share it here. Notice the line “// SD.remove(“datalog.txt”);” is commented out. Uncomment this line to DELETE the file specified instead of printing it to the serial monitor. I…[Read more]
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Scott Ensign replied to the topic Atlas Scientific Sensors and Carrier Board Compatibility in the forum Infrastructure and Equipment 4 years, 6 months ago
Fiona, if you haven’t already found it, check out Adam Gold’s blog about using the Mayfly with Atlas Scientific sensors. Adam’s github has documentation about a carrier board that may involve isolation.
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Scott Ensign wrote a new post 4 years, 7 months ago
In the beginning, there were transistors, rudimentary environmental sensors housed in wooden boxes, and pencil and paper for recording data. Today, we program microcontrollers and make our own environmental […]

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Scott Ensign replied to the topic Hydros-21 Depth Temp Compensation in the forum Environmental Sensors 4 years, 8 months ago
Hi Dan,
We recently did some internal testing of this issue and will post results soon. We don’t have a “fix”, but we did measure this behavior to guide our own interpretation of data.
Scott
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Scott Ensign wrote a new post 5 years ago
Global Positioning Systems (GPS), like the new one for sale on the EnviroDIY Shop, come in handy for exploring rivers and how they work. Rivers work by moving water downstream, but how fast and how far? […]

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Scott Ensign replied to the topic Colour Sensors for Water Quality in the forum Environmental Sensors 5 years ago
<p class=”crayon-selected”>Hi James,</p>
I’ve used Atlas Scientific’s RGB sensor on lagrangian river drifters in the past. The application is written up in Limnology and Oceanography (or see this video abstract of the article). I’m attaching two simple sketches for using this sensor with the Mayfly Data Logger. The first (…AutoMode) just prints…[Read more] -
Scott Ensign replied to the topic Sampling frequency for Monitor My Watershed in the forum Monitor My Watershed 5 years ago
Thanks, Neil. That’s helpful to know that ThingSpeak via Modular Sensors might be a better option for this user’s purposes. He has an interesting classroom laboratory application that I’ll encourage him to share if he is able to pilot it at his college.
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Scott Ensign started the topic Sampling frequency for Monitor My Watershed in the forum Monitor My Watershed 5 years, 1 month ago
A participant in our recent CUAHSI-sponsored EnviroDIY Workshop is wondering if it is possible to report data to Monitor My Watershed at 1 second intervals. Has anyone tried this?
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Scott Ensign posted a new activity comment 5 years, 3 months ago
The Stroud Center will be offering another virtual workshop November 10, 11, and 12. The workshop will be organized and sponsored by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc (CUAHSI). Keep an eye on this page for the announcement sometime soon:…[Read more]
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Scott Ensign wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago
It was a good day for brown trout in the Manistee River. The hot July weather in northern Michigan had pushed the water temperature up into the low 70s. That pushed oxygen levels down, so the trout needed to stay […]

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Scott Ensign replied to the topic PlatormIO: ..Python 2.7 interpreter error in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 5 years, 8 months ago
Hi Jim: I haven’t been following this thread but I’m excited that you are pushing through this to get your data streaming to MonitorMyWatershed! I’m glad Sara has been providing help. It occurred to me that you might reach out to Adam Gold (@adamgold) because he was using both Atlas Sci hardware and PlatformIO. He published a blog detailing his…[Read more]
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Scott Ensign posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago
Rory G, our Amazon stock is sold out but we should have the storefront restocked soon. Shannon Hicks recently posted this:
Shannon Hicks replied to the topic MayFly Kit/Bee Adapter availability December 2019 in the forum Mayfly Data Logger
14 days agoAll the starter kits I sent to Amazon at the beginning of the month sold out within a few days…[Read more]
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Scott Ensign wrote a new post 6 years ago
Need some guidance on how to install and maintain an EnviroDIY Monitoring Station? We’ve created new videos that will take you through the 10 steps of collecting quality water monitoring data. The following […]

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Scott Ensign replied to the topic Mobile Sensor Platform? in the forum Infrastructure and Equipment 6 years, 1 month ago
Hi Oscamo. Indeed, I was formerly at Planktos Instruments but now at the Stroud Center. In responding to Sara’s comment about trajectory data being hard to visualize, check out this video showing dissolved oxygen data along 22 miles of the Neuse River in North Carolina.
We’ve been collecting trajectory data with drifter technology here at the…[Read more]
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Scott Ensign wrote a new post 6 years, 5 months ago
Stroud Water Research Center, in conjunction with the OPEnS Lab at Oregon State University, is excited to host a DIY workshop this September.
Overview:
Low-cost, do-it-yourself electronic microcontrollers, […]
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Scott Ensign replied to the topic Continuous Phosphorous Monitoring in the forum Environmental Sensors 6 years, 6 months ago
Sensors, no. Autonomous orthophosphate wet chemistry, yes. Check out Green Eyes Science’s NuLab (http://gescience.com/nulab/) and Seabird’s hydrocycle (https://www.seabird.com/hydrocycle-po/product?id=54721314201). There are others out there, but these come to mind first.
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Scott Ensign posted an update 6 years, 7 months ago
I’m connecting an ESP8266 V1.0 with a Mayfly. Can anyone suggest a simple sketch that scans for available wifi networks (and displaying them by printing to the terminal) and displays confirmation of the connection with my wifi by printing something to the terminal? Ultimately, I’d like to send sensor data to Monitor My Watershed, but the first…[Read more]
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Well, the *easiest* way would be to take the ESP bee off the mayfly and connect it to a UartSBee and then talk to the bee directly using AT commands and a serial port.
If you’d rather keep it attached to the Mayfly, you can use the basic example for the StreamDebugger (https://github.com/vshymanskyy/StreamDebugger) library to communicate with the…[Read more]
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Um.. and it’s also possible that the esp I gave you had a botched firmware upgrade. If you’re not getting connected, come and demand a better one from me.
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Scott Ensign posted a new activity comment 6 years, 7 months ago
Thank you for the very well-constructed Learn EnviroDIY Programming Tutorial!! I’ve been successfully working through this tutorial in an effort to learn how to use the modular sensors library. This is a tremendous resource for all of us in the EnviroDIY community who are generally intimidated by github and have very little coding experience.…[Read more]
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Hi Scott, I am very glad it’s been helpful to you! It’s basically the one week of work nutshell/refinement of what it took me several months of trial and error to stumble through. Notice it’s still in “beta” mode, so we are more than happy to receive feedback on what works and what doesn’t work well. Please feel free to submit your ideas as…[Read more]
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Scott Ensign posted an update 6 years, 10 months ago
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Welcome to EnviroDIY, a community for do-it-yourself environmental science and monitoring. EnviroDIY is part of
WOW. Excellent post Scott.
This really shows how all the pieces work together and how the data is being used in real-time and for future monitoring.
Thanks.