Category: Energy
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Solar SatTrack: Energy/Surveillance Final
Group Concept We want to construct an antenna that is powered by a Voltaic battery that recharges with solar energy. With this solar-powered antenna, we want to capture radio signals using a Raspberry Pi and Software Defined Radio (SDR) accessories/software and transmit them to a website we will design with art to visualize what is…
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Solar Radio check-in
Accomplished this past week Implemented USB-C circuit that can read voltage level of Voltaic battery Discovered issue with Arduino timing out was not battery related but meant that we needed to pay $7 for Shiftr Linked Google Drive to Raspberry Pi via Google Cloud Console and Pi CLI –checked out a Pi from the shop…
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Solar Radio, Week 2
What did we do: —Created rough flow charts for hardware and software architecture —Will successfully got the Arduino and Raspberry Pi talking via Serial Communication —Integrated the WifiNina library with Nano 33 IOT, learned through Tom Igoe and ITP resources —Learning MQTT – https://tigoe.github.io/mqtt-examples/ —Figuring out test server setup – maybe use https://www.shiftr.io/try/ —Have all ordered…
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Project: Solar Radio
Group Ryan Rotella, Surya Nareddi, and William Fang Concept We want to construct an antenna that is powered by a Voltaic battery that recharges with solar energy. With this solar-powered antenna, we want to capture radio signals using a Raspberry Pi and Software Defined Radio (SDR) accessories/software and transmit them to a website we will…
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Solar: Microcontroller Basics
I sucessfully powered an Arudino with a solar panel. I hooked up wires to the barrel of one of the panels in the solar cart. Then, I pressed the on button for the power strip powering the grow light. However, I tried to give power to a circuit from my PComp final last semester, but…
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Hand Crank Projector
Concept v. Reality Pictured above are: 1.) our inspiration for our hand-cranked projector, an early 20th century camera that required more physical energy to operate; 2.) our loose design for our projector with electronics encased in a clear acrylic box powered by a hand crank, shooting focused light at a caustic lens, casting an image.…
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Kinetic Energy Project Update
This is more of an informal timeline of what Surya and I worked on this past week. Saturday, 2/8/2025 Surya and I discussed what the fabrication of our project would entail. We designed roughly what the projector would look like so that we could list the components we needed and what needed the most immediate…
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Kinetic Energy Project Plan
Concept: Wind-up Projector Surya and I are working together for our first project in Energy. We both met and brainstormed a few ideas, most of which involved a hand crank that powered a well-designed light effect. We particularly had a lot of interest in old analog cameras that had to be cranked in order to…
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Week 1, Syllabus Review
Reviewing the syllabus for Energy fascinated me greatly as the assigned readings about the current administration’s gutting of clean energy dismayed me. Holding both these feelings together seems like an overall positive for this course as I feel better prepared to prepare my community for increasing energy-related challenges. The syllabus sparked those feelings and also…
Ryan Rotella 