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Akiba
- @Freaklabs
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Freaklabs
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!
Group curators
- @Freaklabs
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Freaklabs
I'm an engineer and product designer working in conservation technology. I specialize in technology for landscape restoration and wildlife behavioral ecology.
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Freaklabs
Develops open source technology for wildlife and conservation researchers
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- @Eldogk7
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Hardware engineer with 10+ years in IoT & drones, and 4 years in AI, dedicated to sustainability. Developed the world’s first AI soil nutrition sensor & a mine-detecting drone for the Indian Army. As Abhram’s Founder & CEO, I innovate with smart soil sensors & IoT weather station
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- @kristian.cuervo
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Applied Mathematics student in Denmark, interested in applications of mathematics to ecology and nature conservation. Currently interested in developing sensors for perimeter detection in wildlife conservations in Africa.
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- @capreolus
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Capreolus e.U.
wildlife biologist with capreolus.at
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Software Engineer, Web Developer, Tech Enthusiast. I am software engineer with a background in instrumentation, primarily developing using C/C ++. Skilled in web development, with a Grad Cert in Web Development. Enjoy experimenting with tech, e.g. Raspberry Pi, Arduino and IoT.
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- @avilabon
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My name is Albert Vila, and I have a multidisciplinary background in earth sciences, design, and technology. I hold degrees in Environmental Sciences, GIS, Bioarchitecture, and Emerging Futures Design. My work focuses on biodiversity, natural areas, and technology.
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Noé
Hi! I am Aurélie, a dedicated French ornithologist and engineer specialized in conservation technologies. I am currently Program manager for the biodiversity of natural habitats' program in a French NGO called Noé.
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Liverpool John Moores University
Sensors, remote sensing, embedded systems, Drones
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Wildlife Drones
Wildlife Drones has developed the world’s most innovative radio animal-tracking system using drones so you can track your radio-tagged animals like never before.
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- @AndreaHerguedas
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PhD student ~ acoustic stress response and behavior of sea turtle juveniles
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University of Suffolk
Sustainability Researcher • Environmental Data Scientist & Technologist • Earth Scientist
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Key Conservation
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finding ecological solutions using sound and conservation tech
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Careers
Junior Electrical Engineer (Hardware)
Lindsay Starke
As the FieldKit hardware ecosystem grows, Conservify is seeking a Junior Electrical Engineer to assist with testing, troubleshooting, prototype development, and developing production test fixtures for our growing...
9 December 2022
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How To Use An Arduino – Beginners Guide
Ellie Warren
For anyone interested in WILDLABS' Build Your Own Data Logger course, this beginner's guide to Arduino may be a valuable resource! This page also includes links to other relevant resources on Arduino language and...
1 September 2022
Article
Module 8: In the Field
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the eighth and final module of our Build Your Own Data Logger virtual course. We’ve built, coded and tested our data logger. Now we’re taking it into the field.
22 October 2021
Article
Module 6: Ruggedising Devices
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the sixth module of our Build Your Own Data Logger virtual course. In these videos, we’ll discuss ways to protect devices from water, dust and animals. Then we assemble the WildLogger using cable glands so...
6 September 2021
Article
Module 7: Testing and Piloting
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the seventh module of our Build Your Own Data Logger virtual course. In this module, we take our fully assembled system into the lab, sandbox and pilot test environments.
6 September 2021
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Module 5: Optimising Your Application
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the fifth module of our Build Your Own Data Logger virtual course. In these videos, we’ll optimise our data logger application, and add the finishing touches to application code so it’s ready for deployment.
25 May 2021
Article
Module 4: Tying It All Together
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the fourth module of our Build Your Own Data Logger virtual course. In these videos, we'll tie everything we've learned so far together by creating our functional data logger application.
11 February 2021
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Module 3.6: Interrupts
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the sixth and final part of Build Your Own Data Logger module 3. This new module covers interupts, PIR motion sensors and setting timers and alarms on our real time clock.
29 January 2021
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Module 3.5: SD Cards and the FAT File System
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the fifth 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.
22 January 2021
Article
Course Directory
WILDLABS Admin
Welcome to the Build Your Own Datalogger virtual course. On this page, you'll find a table of contents to help you navigate around the course and supporting materials.
21 January 2021
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Module 3.4: Real Time Clock
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the fourth 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.
21 January 2021
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Module 3.3: Measuring Battery Status
Jacinta Plucinski
Welcome to the third 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.
15 January 2021
January 2023
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| Okay Akiba, I leave it in the drawer of pending things, if I have some time I would like to try it. Count on me for the next course! Greetings ! |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 5 months ago | |
| Hi Phil. A replacement board was just sent out to you. Thanks for your help with the pictures and the patience :) Akiba |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 5 months ago | |
| Hi everyone. Hackaday is running a data logging contest right now and if you happen to need a reason to log some data, this might... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 5 months ago | |
| I appreciate your encouragement ! Don't hesitate that I will keep you informed of the progress that I am making Happy weekend ! |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 6 months ago | |
| Round 2 vlog video is up! |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 6 months ago | |
| Oh that sounds like a fascinating application. I've actually just started a thread for Wildlogger add-on board requests. The TSL25911 sounds do-able and also it looks like one... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 6 months ago | |
| No probs. We've all been there (and will be there again)! Glad it's working cheers Jacinta |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 6 months ago | |
| You'll need to write a software application that would communicate from the PC to the board via serial. Within that software application, you could send the time and date to... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 6 months ago | |
| Hi everyone, We're rethinking the live component of the Build Your Own Datalogger course and would love to hear your ideas.... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 6 months ago | |
| Hi Everyone, We've got your final module release for module 3 going into your weekend - happy Friday! ... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 6 months ago | |
| Ha ha ha. We'll look into PlatformIO perhaps in the future, once we have a break with the courses. In the meantime, there's a lot of other hardware, sensors, and... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 4 years 6 months ago | |
| It is true Akiba, I did not remember this option, that the Arduino IDE allows us to work with an external editor I will also try to send a message to the Platformio managers to... |
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