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Tom Sayles replied to the topic Flood Network – Level Sensor Network in the forum Environmental Sensors 10 years, 9 months ago
Made the first field trial with my setup this week.
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Tom Sayles replied to the topic Flood Network – Level Sensor Network in the forum Environmental Sensors 10 years, 10 months ago
Very exciting. I’ve been working on something similar, though smaller in scale (just our farm in western Washington State [USA], between Seattle and the Cascade Mountains. I’ve been experimenting with the MB7040 I2CXL-MaxSonar-WR sensor, Particle.io Photons for MCU, communications and cloud connectivity along with Weather and Battery Shields from…[Read more]
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Tom Sayles replied to the topic Flood Network – Level Sensor Network in the forum Environmental Sensors 10 years, 10 months ago
Very exciting. I’ve been working on something similar, though smaller in scale (just our farm in western Washington State [USA], between Seattle and the Cascade Mountains. I’ve been experimenting with the MB7040 I2CXL-MaxSonar-WR sensor, Particle.io Photons for MCU, communications and cloud connectivity along with Weather and Battery Shields from…[Read more]
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Tom Sayles posted a new activity comment 10 years, 10 months ago
Been working on my prototype using an Particle.io Photon and a and have been posting about it over in the Particle.io community forums.
https://community.particle.io/t/i2cxl-maxsonar-mb7040-examples/17971/7?u=tsayles
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Tom Sayles replied to the topic Ultrasonic Stream Depth Sensors in the forum Environmental Sensors 11 years, 9 months ago
@Shicks, thanks for the heads up on the temperature compensation. I had already been thinking about measuring temperature at the top, bottom and water surface [hopefully using an I2C-IR sensor I’ve been playing with] in the stilling well. From there calculating the thermal gradient and applying a calibration curve shouldn’t be too difficult, just…[Read more]
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Tom Sayles started the topic Ultrasonic Stream Depth Sensors in the forum Environmental Sensors 11 years, 9 months ago
I recently ordered a MB7040 I2CXL-MaxSonar-WR sensor [I like the i2c interface and don’t need mm resolution] and @Shicks said “That sensor may not be the best option for you”.
I wrote up a bit of a concept paper for what I’m hoping to do and posted it at http://toms-wow.blogspot.com/2015/01/open-source-crowd-source-stream-gauge.html
What are…[Read more]
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Tom Sayles posted a new activity comment 11 years, 9 months ago
Okay, I ordered a MB7040 I2CXL-MaxSonar-WR sensor [I like the i2c interface and don’t need mm resolution] and wrote up a bit of a concept paper for what I’m hoping to do.
http://toms-wow.blogspot.com/2015/01/open-source-crowd-source-stream-gauge.html
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Tom Sayles posted a new activity comment 11 years, 9 months ago
@sollins Looks like Seeed has revised their Seeeduino Stalker design since the v2 shown in @shicks build.
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/Seeeduino-Stalker-v3-p-1882.html
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Tom Sayles posted a new activity comment 11 years, 10 months ago
@shicks Could you post a bigger image of the test/installed site? And perhaps some sample data? Also info on how the sensors are doing through the winter, would be helpful.
I think I want to build and deploy a couple to test for potential use in community driven local flood monitoring and forecasting in the lower Snoqualmie Valley (outside…[Read more]
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That photo was from a temporary test setup, so I don’t have more pictures. I moved the PVC pipe to a more secure mounting to survive higher flows. The ultrasonic sensors, along with all of our other sensors and logger circuitry, are performing perfectly this winter, even with air temperatures below 0 degrees C a few times. I’m still running a…[Read more]
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Hi All,
Really cool stuff that is going on here with the DIY Utrasonic Water Depth sensor. I see how being able to construct something like this on a tight budget is extremely important for increasing stream gauging data.
OnSet makes the HOBO U20L pressure transducer/datalogger combo
(here:…[Read more]
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This is a good topic for the Q&A forums. Start a thread over there and we can continue the discussion there.
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We’re going to try to build a water level sensor (ultrasound) using your design. But we’re going to need some help. For example, when I Google the Seeduino logger board kit, it says discontinued. And when I try Arduino FIO, I get a whole bunch of different products.
Any chance you could post a list of materials including where we purchase each…[Read more]
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@sollins Looks like Seeed has revised their Seeeduino Stalker design since the v2 shown in @shicks build.
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/Seeeduino-Stalker-v3-p-1882.html
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I have dozens of Seeeduino Stalker v2.3 boards, and we have been using them for a few years now. But they were discontinued last fall and replaced with the new v3.0 model. We will not be using the v3.0 version, for a variety of reasons, so we are currently testing and evaluating other board options. The Fio is only handy because it has an Xbee…[Read more]
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I am curious as to why you will be staying away from the v3.0 Stalker boards. What disadvantages do you see compared to previous versions?
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Okay, I ordered a MB7040 I2CXL-MaxSonar-WR sensor [I like the i2c interface and don’t need mm resolution] and wrote up a bit of a concept paper for what I’m hoping to do.
http://toms-wow.blogspot.com/2015/01/open-source-crowd-source-stream-gauge.html
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That sensor may not be the best option for you, head over to the Sensor forum, start a thread there and I’ll elaborate.
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Sam, that’s a really good question, ask it over in the “Dataloggers” forum and I’ll answer it there so other people can find these discussions more easily.
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That sensor may not be the best option for you, head over to the Sensor forum, start a thread there and I’ll elaborate.