eladbar
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Board with sensors and LBE

Thu Jan 12, 2017 10:25 am

Dear Freinds,
i need help in determining what equipment i need for Rasberry PI with several sensors on it :
Gyro & accelometer, Altitude, distance, presure, temprature, GPS, Heading/compass.
memory component and Low Bluetooth Energy component.

thanks,
eladb@barshan.com

scotty101
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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Thu Jan 12, 2017 1:52 pm

eladbar wrote:i need help in determining what equipment i need for Rasberry PI with several sensors on it :
Gyro & accelometer, Altitude, distance, presure, temprature, GPS, Heading/compass.
memory component and Low Bluetooth Energy component.
What do you mean by "distance"? Distance from what?

The SenseHAT has gyro&accel, barometric pressure for altitude and air pressure, two temperature sensors and a magnetometer for heading/compass.
The Pi has RAM memory and needs an SD card to run which can be used for long term storage. You can suppliment this with a USB storage device, a USB hard drive or even network/cloud storage.
The Pi 3 has a built in bluetooth module but I'm not sure whether it supports the lower energy specifications.
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eladbar
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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Thu Jan 12, 2017 1:56 pm

hi,
thank you for this info,
i need wireless distance and wireless pressure sensors,
to comminicate with the main board.

is there any one place i can buy these features already assembelled?

scotty101
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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Thu Jan 12, 2017 2:04 pm

eladbar wrote: i need wireless distance and wireless pressure sensors,
Same questions again. What do you mean by distance?? Distance from what?

The PI is a DIY (Do It Yourself) 'kit'. There aren't out of the box/off the shelf wireless sensors specifically designed for it.
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eladbar
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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Thu Jan 12, 2017 2:20 pm

hi,
i want to put the distance & pressure outside the SenceHAT in a distance
of no more than 2 meter from it and that the data of these sensors will be collected alongside
the other sensors.

can i add the base for these sensors on the SenceHAT?

what is the size of the SenceHAT?

can i put it inside a waterproof box?

alphanumeric
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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Thu Jan 12, 2017 2:55 pm

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/ and https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-se ... y-curious/
I have a Proto Hat with a stacking header mounted between my Pi and my Sense Hat, It lets me wire in other items to the GPIO pins etc. I have a Real Time Clock mounted to it at the moment. I'm likely going to add some other buttons etc to that at a latter date. https://www.adafruit.com/products/2310 with this https://www.adafruit.com/products/1979

Hooking up sensors wirelessly isn't going to be easy. I'm just guessing you'll need something from here maybe?
https://www.adafruit.com/category/342 Then communicate with the PI via Bluetooth? What's your skill level?

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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:11 pm

eladbar wrote:Dear Freinds,
i need help in determining what equipment i need for Rasberry PI with several sensors on it :
Gyro & accelometer, Altitude, distance, presure, temprature, GPS, Heading/compass.
memory component and Low Bluetooth Energy component.

thanks,
eladb@barshan.com
Are you building a Drone or quad copter , Something air born, If so you will have some electronics
Interfacing to do. The Pi is not suitable for direct Plug & Play . You will have to use buffer stages between
The Pi IN / Puts & Out /Puts , due to voltage and signal levels.
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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:04 am

scotty101 wrote:The Pi 3 has a built in bluetooth module but I'm not sure whether it supports the lower energy specifications.
It does. Documentation and examples are few and far between, however.

eladbar
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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Sun Jan 15, 2017 7:33 am

thank you alll,
do you know any distance measurement sensor, that
can measure the distance between the Raspberry PI unit to the sensor ignoring
obstacles in between them?

as far as i know IR, photoelectric, sonar cannot see trough obstacles.

appreciate your information

jbudd
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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:46 am

Infra red and sonar won't work through obstacles.

There is a discussion of a microwave radar unit here http://tech.scargill.net/microwave-radar/. Apparently they do work through walls and detect movement. I don't know if you could use one to measure distance, maybe two or three at different sensitivities to detect someone approaching.

eladbar
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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:05 am

thanks,
but i really need accurate distance measurement,

jbudd
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Re: Board with sensors and LBE

Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:28 am

thanks,
but i really need accurate distance measurement
Mount a sonar rangefinder on an ESP8266 with wifi and site it on the other side of the obstacle.
https://hackaday.io/project/7854-bluesu ... fi-o-sonar
https://blog.squix.org/2016/08/esp8266- ... ensor.html

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