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Sensors in Schools

Information to help students and teachers install and maintain sensors in schools to support healthier waterways and to help save the planet.

Healthy Waterways

• Protecting the platpus
• Frogs
• Waterbugs
• Vegetation around waterways

Smart Cities 2021

• Navigation on the Raspberry Pi
• Security improvements on the Raspberry Pi
• HTML coding
• CSS Cascading Style Sheets
• Python introduction
• Reading data from sensors
• Saving sensor data to a file
• Saving data with timestamps
• Creating a Dynamic web page
• Scheduling tasks using Cron
• Graphing data using Plotly
• 3D printing workshop using TinkerCad
• Laser cutting workshop using TinkerCad
• Water quality sensor construction workshop
• Requesting data from a Water Quality Sensor in Peter Hopper lake
• Node-Red introduction
• Node-Red Dashboards

Smart Cities 2022

• What is a Sustainable Smart City?
• How do we use environmental sensors?
• Platypus
• How to protect waterways with water quality sensors
• Introduction to Raspberry Pi
• Introduction to Debian Linux
• Navigating on the Raspberry Pi
• Setting up VNC
• Sensors in aquaponics
• Data visualisation using Node-RED

Sensors

• Temperature sensor
• Pressure sensor
• Soil moisture sensor
• GPS sensor
• Turbidity sensor

Projects

• Water quality sensor
• GPS litter picker
• Smart bee hive
• Veggie garden sensor
• Chicken coop project
• Smart tank with BoM rain farecasts
• Rabbit hutch tiny house
• Urban heat island temperature experiment

The Things Network

• How To Register LoRa WAN Gateways
• How To Register Sensors

Sustainable Computers

• Debian installation on Mac
• Raspberry Pi setup
• Pycom Pygate setup
• Installing Atom on PC or Mac