Edge Impulse Becomes the First AI Company to Join 1% for the Planet
Edge Impulse
15 January 2021 12:00am
Workshop: Analyses of acoustic telemetry data with R
European Tracking Network
15 January 2021 12:00am
Module 3.3: Measuring Battery Status
Akiba
15 January 2021 12:00am
Tech Tutors: How do I choose the right drone for my conservation goals?
14 January 2021 1:05pm
Press Release: BAS Giant Iceberg Mission
British Antarctic Survey
13 January 2021 12:00am
XPRIZE Rainforest Summit: Pathways to Conservation
XPrize
13 January 2021 12:00am
X-Prize for Rainforests
26 November 2019 9:19am
30 June 2020 5:45pm
Hi everyone!
I only just came across this thread and the Rainforest XPrize. I would love to be a part of the team if it's not too late. I filled out the Google Sheet form with my experience, but I also wanted to post a note in the form. I have experience managing conservation tech projects (with some members of this forum!), testing tech in the field, and conducting biodiversity surveys in the Amazon. I read through the Google Docs notes from previous meetings and you all have some interesting ideas. I would love the be a part of future planning meetings if you'll have me!
11 January 2021 7:06pm
I know I'm very late, but I only discovered this recently. Is your team still active/accepting new members?
How do I choose the right tech for my bird monitoring project?
WILDLABS Team
11 January 2021 12:00am
Horizon 2020 UFO project Matchmaking event
8 January 2021 10:58am
Module 3.2: Temperature and Humidity Settings
Akiba
8 January 2021 12:00am
Module 2: Setting up the Arduino IDE
24 November 2020 12:41pm
7 January 2021 5:14pm
Thanks Akiba. I re-installed the driver and that seems to have helped. I appreciate the support.
Jeff
7 January 2021 6:08pm
Oh great. That makes me feel better also. Hope you have a stable development system to work off of. Great things still need to be made!
Akiba
7 January 2021 7:39pm
@Jeffm Oh that's great to hear. We've had a couple of cable issues so far, but I'm really glad you got the problem sorted. Onward and upward!
Akiba
Tech Tutors: How do I build a community-owned conservation tech research project?
6 January 2021 4:57pm
Has anyone used CVEDIA'S ARTEMIS before?
5 January 2021 5:45pm
BYO Holiday Break Project Log + Schedule Update
22 December 2020 10:05pm
2 January 2021 12:17am
Happy 2021 Robin!
We hear you. The holiday season was brutal for Jacinta and I. We're just getting back into the swing of things now and resuming the video production. Looking forward to (hopefully) a better 2021 :)
Akiba
5 January 2021 2:13pm
Just set the RTC. Thanks for the update ;-)
5 January 2021 3:09pm
Ha ha ha. it will be much more important than that later on.
Stay tuned :)
Akiba
Small-scale fisheries and tech resources
5 January 2021 9:45am
USB dongle
7 December 2020 10:13pm
8 December 2020 10:14am
Oh, I understand now. Thanks for the clarification.
Roy
4 January 2021 4:55pm
How do you get the cables through the white plastic sticking out bit? Mine seem to be too wide to fit through
4 January 2021 5:19pm
Hi Liam.
To get the cables through the cable gland, we'll need to remove the wires from the terminal housing and then reinstall them. That will be in a later module.
Akiba
Analyzing sounds of flying insects
17 December 2020 2:08pm
18 December 2020 6:14pm
this guys has been around a long and has some neat stuff http://songsofinsects.com/about
but sure looks like a wide-open area of research ...
4 January 2021 12:26pm
Tom Dally at Leeds University UK is doing work in this area. I dont think he has anything published yet but his preliminary results are interesting (saw them at a workshop).
https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/school-of-biology/pgr/753/thomas-dally
Tom
Module 3.3.3 why is pinBatt an int?
23 December 2020 2:42pm
28 December 2020 2:57pm
Hi Akiba, Jacinta,
Jjust to say I've complted all the videos through to end of 3.3.1b successfully - no problems! It snowed here in the North of England last night, so was measuring temperature today!
Many thanks
Rob
4 January 2021 9:49am
Thank you very much - that is very helpful. Knew there had to be a logical explanation behind it.
4 January 2021 9:50am
Thank you, that's very helpful. Nice to see it is a shortcut.
How do I choose the right drone for my conservation goals?
WILDLABS Team
4 January 2021 12:00am
Useful Resources (add your own!)
11 November 2020 10:56am
25 November 2020 11:12am
Ed Mallon (Cave Pearl Project) is exceptionally complete in regards to temperature measurement. Not as easy as it seems!
Excellent links!
8 December 2020 12:28pm
Hi Everyone.
Just thought I'd add this to the list, as I have found it very useful.
Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk. (ISBN 978-1-25-958754-2)
It does the "high level" stuff and the detailed stuff very well and covers a lot of the devices and functions you may think of using in a project.
Cheers
Sean
1 January 2021 11:53am
Hi everyone,
while beeing separated from my Wildlogger board I still had to play with some sensors ;-)
Ceck out this wonderful project: https://sensebox.de/en/
Great to learn coding with this nice blockly interface:
https://blockly.sensebox.de/ardublockly/?board=sensebox-mcu&lang=en#
I had lots of fun monitoring the particulate matter influx from the illegal fireworks ;-)
Greetings from Austria,
Robin
Module 3.1: Programming Basic Functionality
Akiba
1 January 2021 12:00am
How difficult is it to build a buoy and constrain it in place?
14 March 2019 3:54pm
23 November 2020 5:23pm
Akiba,
You might want to check out these systems, if you haven't seen them already?
http://www.smruconsulting.com/the-coastal-acou-a-new-tool-for-remote-and-real-time-acoustic-monitoring/
https://www.seiche.com/underwater-acoustic-products/platforms/acoustic-monitoring-buoy/
https://www.mseis.com/services/buoys/
https://rtsys.eu/buoys
Thanks, Carlos
29 December 2020 11:45am
I worked with some folks years ago, and I'll dig into my files to see if I had a schematic of some sort. this following video --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzk94BQ-sg&ab_channel=RobertBevan is similar to what we would've done, though we did use insulation foam in place of the pool float, upcycled soda bottles and to anchor in place we used a car tire with cement and an I bolt alongside somethign that swivels so that the rope that holds the bouy doesn't snap off. We used it in shallower and calmer areas, though it might've been 10'-15' (3-5m). I'll make a note to look for any files I have of the project, and if you don't hear from me in the new year, could you send me a reminder?
As @Freaklabs would've heard me say a few times, PVC, whilst not environmentally friendly, is quite adaptable and can allow a modular system to be built to suit your needs.
29 December 2020 11:53am
"On a side note, I've discovered it's really hard to say "I'm interested in small buoys" without creating awkward silence in a room. "
HAHAHAHA... yeah, it's probably best not to ever do that.
Survey for Wildlife Conservation: Do We Need Hand of Technology?
27 December 2020 3:44pm
Survey for Wildlife Conservation: Do We Need Hand of Technology?
27 December 2020 3:35pm
Tech Tutors: How do I use pattern matching analysis to label acoustic data with RFCxArbimon?
17 December 2020 3:31pm
17 December 2020 9:22pm
Thanks everybody for joining today's session! I've attached the article here that describes Pattern Matching in greater detail to respond to some of the questions from today's session.
Also, here is a link to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service for the individual who had questions about GDPR. Feel free to contact us at [email protected] with any other questions about the platform or Pattern Matching in general!
23 December 2020 3:21am
Zephyr and Marconi, thanks for the great talk and your hard work that made this platform available to the public!! I'm experimenting with the pattern matching function to create some training data but have issues trying to get the "Jobs'' to run. I only have 18 files for each of these tests, but only 1 processed to 11.1% while two others stay at 0%. The internet connection was briefly interrupted when I created the first job and was fine later on. I can only Hide, not delete or re-run these jobs, so I'm not sure what to do. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
23 December 2020 3:27pm
Hi @pmnguyen1224 , thanks for reaching out and checking out the system! We would love to help ensure that you're able to get pattern matching to work for you! I do have a few questions for you so we can replicate issue you are experiencing. Would you mind emailing us a couple screenshots and your original message above at [email protected] to get started? Or feel free to send us a chat if that's easier, by clicking on the chat icon on https://arbimon.rfcx.org/. Looking forward to supporting you moving forward!
Module 4 and 5
22 December 2020 9:09pm
22 December 2020 9:59pm
Hi there! Yes, we're in the process of working out the new schedule - several of the modules have ended up being longer and more in-depth than we originally expected, so we've postponed them until after the holiday break to give everyone a chance to catch up on the first part Module 3. You can expect the second half of Module 3 after the New Year, and Module 4's release announcement will come soon after that.
Sorry for the confusion, hope this helps!
-Ellie
Module 3.1.1 The Arduino Command Line.
21 December 2020 7:06pm
21 December 2020 11:29pm
Hmm.. that's strange.
I copied and tested your code (as above), and it works as expected. I get the 'command not recognised' initially, and then 'hello command line' when I type in hello.
At the bottom of the serial monitor, can you check it's set to 'carriage return' and 57600 baud (see images below)?
After the serial monitor is open, the output will be blank.
If you put your cursor in the text input field, and press enter, it should return ''Cmd: Command Not Recognised".
If you put your cursor in the text input field and type 'hello', it should still return the 'hello command line' as per the function.
I've attached screenshots of the two scenarios above.
Can you share what you're typing into the serial console, and what's being returned?
thanks
Jacinta
22 December 2020 10:48am
thanks jacinta. it worked again. The problem was I couldnt exactly see How yall set up the serial monito in the video, because all the links to future videos actually covered the bottom that showed that part. Sorry about that.
22 December 2020 11:09am
Oh! Okay that's good to know, we'll move the links.
Code Module 3-3-3b
21 December 2020 7:22pm
21 December 2020 9:34pm
Hey Paul,
The #include macro, #define constants and pinBatt variable declaration need to sit outside the setup function at the very top.
Declaring pinBatt outside of the setup loop, means it becomes a global variable which can be accessed by any function in the program.
So, currently what's in the first loop function, should be in the set up function, and there should be only one loop function.
So code should look like ...
#include <cmdArduino.h>
#define ADC_UNITS 1024
#define ADC_REF_VOLTAGE 3.3
#define ADC_SCALE_FACTOR 2
int pinBatt = A6;
void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
pinMode(pinBatt, INPUT);
Serial.begin(57600);
Serial.println("Module 3-3 Lab 3a: Battery Status");
cmd.add("batt", cmdBatt);
}
void loop() {
cmd.poll();
}
Here's some further info on #include libraries, #define constants and global variables if you're interested
# include
https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/structure/further-syntax/include/
#define
https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/structure/further-syntax/define/
Global variables and scope
https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/variables/variable-scope-qualifiers/scope/
hope that helps!
Jacinta
22 December 2020 3:09am
Ah yes! Rookie mistake and soon as I saw your response I remembered the #include #define needed to be outside the setup.
Thank you!
British Antarctic Survey: Monitoring Whales From Space
British Antarctic Survey
21 December 2020 12:00am
SD Cards and Reliability
10 November 2020 1:02pm
18 December 2020 5:15pm
Just saw this in the digest listing -- I'd hit the same problem with the WiFi SD cards being power hungry so we're developing something ourselves with Bluetooth, WIFI and LoRa. Currently pursuing funding to be able to develop it faster, but the intention is to opensource -- so would love to colaborate if anyone has interest/input/use cases? My PhD is in low power wireless sensor networks so nice to have a project it can actually be useful for. Providing we can get funding we'll have some 'free to you' prototypes for field testing.
19 December 2020 9:29pm
Hi @openlx
Sounds very interesting and love to hear more. So would your system work as a replacement SD card, or work with an existing card/card holder. I think there's a lot of potential for any conservation technology that uses SD cards, including camera traps. And can I ask what sort of ballpark levels of funding are we talking?
Cheers,
Rob
20 December 2020 5:36pm
It would slot in to replace the usual SD storage card, with power, controls and antenna etc. hanging off thin wires -- the idea being to fit as many existing products as possible. Looking to raise about £10k for the proof of concept and then same again for certification and initial run.
23 June 2020 7:06pm
I think if you added it to your calendar through the registration button on the Rainforest XPrize site, it added the link to join to your calendar.