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Revision as of 18:44, 13 July 2023
This web site is an experiment with local students, residents and public agencies to see if participative governance and more open information sharing between agencies can promote healthier waterways in the Whittlesea municipality. In a low carbon and resource constrained future we will all need to explore better methods of engagement and knowledge sharing to protect our communities and the natural environment. All Material contained in the web site is published under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY licence).
Smart Cities 2021
The Smart Cities course was offered to students in 2021 at the Whittlesea Tech School. Click on individual lessons below.
- Navigation on the Raspberry Pi
- Security improvements on the Raspberry Pi
- HTML coding
- Adding style to an HTML page using CSS
- Python introduction
- Reading data from an atmospheric sensor
- Saving sensor data to a file
- Saving data with timestamps
- Creating a Dynamic web page
- Scheduling tasks using Cron
- Graphing data using Plotly
- Creating HTML links to Plotly graphs
- More CSS coding
- Requesting data from a Water Quality Sensor in Peter Hopper lake
- Node-RED introduction
- Node-RED data processing
- Node-RED data processing II
- Node-RED creating dashboards
Smart Cities 2022
- Smart Cities - What is a Sustainable Smart City?
- Smart Cities - How can we use Environmental Sensors?
- Smart Cities - How to protect the Platypus?
- Smart Cities - Introduction to the Raspberry Pi and Linux
- Smart Cities - First lesson in Python
- Smart Cities - Reading data from Environmental Sensors in an Aquarium
- Smart Cities - Setting up Aquarium sensor in Tech School
- Smart Cities - Getting to 1 tonne per person by 2030
- Smart Cities - Data Visualisation using the Node-RED dashboard
- Smart Cities - BirdNET-Pi Jeremy Project
- Smart Cities - Storing sensor data in a Database in Node-RED
- Raspberry Pi 4 - Adding an SSD to improve performance and longevity
- Smart Cities - Getting weather data from the Bureau of Meteorology
Smart Cities 2023
- Smart Cities - Setting up Raspberry Pi for Secure Shell Remote Access
- Smart Cities - TeamViewer to access the Raspberry Pi remotely
- Smart Cities - Transferring Files using Secure Copy
- Smart Cities - SQLite3 database
- Smart Cities - Node-RED re-installation or version upgrade
- Smart Cities - Arduino IDE installation
- Smart Cities - Using a Raspberry Pi and Python to access Victron MPPT solar data
- Smart Cities - Build a Solar PV system with Battery Backup
- Smart Cities - Freeing up space on Raspberry Pi
- Smart Cities - Installation of Raspberry Pi Operating System Desktop on a PC
Raspberry Pi - Primary School Lessons
- Lesson 1 - Raspberry Pi Introduction and Platypus
- Lesson 2 - Red-rumped Parrot and Kangaroo Grass
- Lesson 3 - Frogs and Scratch Shark Attack
- Lesson 4 - Tiny House and Cheese Chase
- Lesson 5 - Junior Landcare Grant and Cheese Chase2
- Lesson 6 - Circle Wars
- Lesson 7 - Boat Race
- Lesson 8 - Arduino Uno and LEDs
- Lesson 9 - Arduino Uno and Traffic lights
Secondary School Lessons
- Revegetation of School Wetlands
- BirdNET-Pi to Monitor Bird Calls
- Tiny House project
- Off-grid Solar PV Panel project
- Smart Tanks for Schools project
- Water Purification for Drinking
- Automated Greenhouse project
- Solar Power Supply for Tiny House project
- Victron MPPT Charge Controller Configuration
- Victron MPPT data using Arduino serial
- XBee 3 Configuration
- Heating for Tiny House project
- Arduino Uno Introduction
- Arduino Uno Example Projects for Students
- Serial Communication between the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi
- Add Blocker for Safari
- Data Visualisation with Freeboard.io
- Freeboard.io Links
Clover and Muffin Save the Planet
- Rabbits use less Energy than Humans
- Rabbits stick to their Carbon Budgets
- Rabbits prefer Tiny Houses
- Rabbits don't drive electric cars
- Rabbit hate taking baths
- Low energy appliances for your house
- Rabbits love farms and growing vegetables
ChatGPT Discussion
- Sustainability
- Degrowth
- Circular economy
- Energy consumption by Houses
- Water and Food Production
- Electric Vehicles
- Tiny House
- Droughts and Floods
- Biodiversity Monitoring
Sensors
Instructions on how to build individual sensors that can be used in school environmental monitoring projects.
- Pressure sensor
- Soil moisture sensor
- Water quality sensor
- Water quality sensor Carlingford Park Lake
- APIs for Water levels sensors Minnovation
- DATTA VIC Demo
The Things Network
- Pycom Pygate setup
- MikroTik LoRa Router setup
- How To Register Pycom LoRa Sensors on The Things Network
Student projects
Sustainable Computers
Simplicity
- Urban Food Production
- The Simplicity Institute - Affiliated with The University of Melbourne
- Happen Films Stories for a Changing World