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Jacinta Plucinski
Freaklabs
Ready to put your Tech Tutors skills into practice? WILDLABS and Freaklabs are proud to announce our new virtual course: Build Your Own Data Logger. This eight-part video tutorial series will guide wildlife and conservation researchers through building and deploying custom hardware using the Arduino platform. To join, Register now!
This course is free to all, but if you would like to build along with the course in real-time, you can purchase the WildLogger board and kit for $30 (USD) here
About the Series
If our first season of Tech Tutors inspired you to put your conservation tech skills to the test, we've got a brand-new experience coming to WILDLABS! Where can you start learning how to use Arduino to build custom devices for wildlife and conservation research? Right here!
Beginning this November, WILDLABS and Freaklabs are proud to introduce an eight-part video tutorial series that guides wildlife and conservation researchers through building and deploying custom hardware using the Arduino platform. The series will use WildLogger - an Arduino-based board that’s designed for deployment - to create a custom data logger.
Are you new to Arduino, or maybe not entirely sure what Arduino is? Good news - this series is for beginners like you! By the end of our eight modules, you'll have the practical skills and knowledge base you need to deploy your creation for real.
The series assumes no hardware experience. It’ll cover common terminology, components, the hardware design stack, setting up the Arduino environment, programming and optimising your application, choosing and modifying enclosures, piloting, testing, deploying and troubleshooting.
You’re not on your own. Our interactive series makes it easier than ever to get feedback and guidance as you learn. Every two weeks, we’ll host a live Office Hours event to troubleshoot, answer questions in person, and release the next module in the series. We'll also have cheat sheets and code to download, plus a forum to ask questions between sessions. And of course, you can build along with the course in real-time with the WildLogger board and kit, available here.
The tutorial is free and allows you to move at your own pace with videos available to all on the WILDLABS Youtube channel. To navigate through all course content, visit the Course Directory.
To join this virtual course, register here!
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Article
Module 3.2: Temperature and Humidity Settings
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the second part of Build Your Own Data Logger module 3. In these videos, we'll get into the process of writing our data logger application and carrying out our proof-of-concept strategy.
8 January 2021
Article
Module 3.1: Programming Basic Functionality
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the first part of Build Your Own Data Logger module 3. In these videos, we'll get into the process of writing our data logger application and carrying out our proof-of-concept strategy. In Module 3, we break...
1 January 2021
Article
Module 2: Setting up the Arduino IDE
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the second module of our Build Your Own Data Logger virtual course. In these videos, we'll cover the steps to installing Arduino and setting up the hardware, as well as writing our first programs.
24 November 2020
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Module 1: Understand the Design Stack
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the first module of our Build Your Own Data Logger virtual course. We'll cover what you need to know about the hardware and software we'll use in this course, and things you should consider when choosing...
10 November 2020
Article
Build Your Own Data Logger Virtual Course
WILDLABS Team
Ready to put your Tech Tutors skills into practice? WILDLABS and Freaklabs are proud to announce our new virtual course: Build Your Own Data Logger. This eight-part video tutorial series will guide wildlife and...
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| Oh, that looks so good, and some heavy hitting design firms too! |
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Animal Movement, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Open Source Solutions | 2 years 10 months ago | |
| Done lots of this over the years and it depends on the species really. If you want incubation behaviour and hence success or otherwise using temperature then the Thermocron... |
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Animal Movement, Sensors, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Camera Traps | 2 years 10 months ago | |
| Congratulations! You have now (hopefully!) reached the end of the Build Your Own Datalogger virtual course and have a real, working... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 9 months ago | |
| Hi everyone, The final module of the course is now available: Module 8 - In the Field! We’ve built, coded and tested... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 9 months ago | |
| Hi everyone, Module 7 is now available! Please use this thread to ask any questions that pop up as you work your... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 10 months ago | |
| Hi everyone, Module 6 is now available! Please use this thread to ask any questions that pop up as you work your... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 11 months ago | |
| Glad to hear it's working! We're now working on the last couple modules which is more mechanical and assembly. Hoping to get those out soon. We're feeling a bit of... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 2 months ago | |
| Hi Nigel, Are you interested in attended or unattended monitoring? You can take inspiration from openctd, also the cave pearl project which has a few variants.... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 3 months ago | |
| Hi JAL. No problem. Feel free to email directly or private message through Wildlabs on the specifics. No rush either. I think it's interesting that there seems to be... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 4 months ago | |
| Thanks! We think it will be useful, especially if it can serve as a building block for courses with more sophisticated devices. I think it will be really interesting to see where... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 4 months ago | |
| Hi Akiba, Yes, that does help. Nice to know we can expect 1-month using 3x AA 2100mAh batteries. I had a quick look at the arduino.cc site for power management - it's... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 4 months ago | |
| We've just winding down our most recent deployment and have restarted work on the course. So it should be soon. There will be updates soon. Akiba |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 5 months ago |
