SAMD21G Sensor Board with Color OLED

Assembly instructions on Mike Rankin’s blog:

SAMD21G Sensor Board with Color Oled

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Design files and source are available on GitHub:

mike-rankin/SAMD21G18A_Sensor_Board_with_Color_Oled

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This Sensor Board is yet another variation of another one on my site. It is not for sale with no real purpose in mind but the design files to make your own are here. The project was created as design challenge. My full time job is pcb design work and as a hobby I enjoy experimenting with new design ideas.

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This was one of the more challenging designs I’ve worked on in a while. A few times I’d given up on routing it. Evan using four routing layers I found it tough. The idea was to hide the bezel of the display behind the board but have sensor components on that same board. It would look something like a little tiny television with all the components around the edges.

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This latest revision has fixed a few issues I found on previous versions but the design idea can possibly help others in some way. Full credit goes to Adafruit for publishing the Feather M0 design files along with the bootloader. I used the Feather design to create the schematic for my board.

SAMD21G Sensor Board with Color OLED

Portable Heartbeat Logger

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Ole Andreas Utstumo designed this board to log ECG waveforms:

Heartbeat Logger

A portable device that will log your ECG – the “waveform” of your heart – to your phone via bluetooth or to a memory card

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The Heartbeat Logger is a portable device that that logs your ECG throughout the day and throughout the night, 24/7. While this certainly is nothing new, even as an open source project (see MobilECG), Heartbeat is a project that, aside being of personal value for me, is designed to be simple to use and understand, and might serve a purpose somewhere for someone.


The firmware and hardware design is available on GitHub:

github Utstumo/Heartbeat-Logger/

Portable Heartbeat Logger

Comprehensive Respiratory Health Monitor

279361444154700437.jpgDean Gouramanis is building a wearable Bluetooth-enabled Arduino Pulse Oximeter:

Comprehensive Respiratory Health Monitor

bluetooth-enabled wearable device can measure Pulse Oximetry, and ambient CO2 24/7

The board is shared on GitHub:

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Comprehensive Respiratory Health Monitor

Low power Arduino Pro Mini board

3317771479151537261.JPGMax.K created this Arduino Pro Mini compatible development board for low power applications:

LP Mini

ideal for data logging over extended periods of time [..] can run for months or even years on a coin cell

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Hardware

  • Microcontroller: Atmega328p with Arduino bootloader
  • Real Time Clock: MCP79410
  • Voltage Regulator: MCP1700
  • FDN340P MOSFET

Features

  • 2.8 µA current consumption in sleep mode
  • Compatible to the Arduino Pro Mini (except for pin 2 and 10)
  • A real time clock keeps the time and is used to wake the Atmega from sleep mode
  • Sleep current is reduced by using a more efficient voltage regulator
  • A simple Mosfet is used to turn external devices on and off if the IO pins cannot provide enough current
Low power Arduino Pro Mini board

Wi-Fi Connected IoT Thing

Charles McClelland created a Wi-Fi Connected Teensy Data Logger with GPS and Accelerometer:

Wi-Fi Connected IOT Thing
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The basic idea is that this board will connect to GPS, obtain a GPS fix and report its location to Ubidots.

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Ubidots can then display this information in a number of ways including showing the location and the number of times the sensor had been moved that day

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The hardware design files and firmware source code are shared on GitHub:

github chipmc/Teensy-Data-Logger/

 

Wi-Fi Connected IoT Thing