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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.

Smart Cities 2021

• 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

Sensors

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

School projects

• Water quality sensor for platypus
• GPS litter picker
• Walk to School GPS tracker
• Smart bee hive with load sensor
• Smart bee hive with infra-red sensor
• Veggie garden soil moisture sensor
• Grow tomatoes in pots with soil moisture sensors
• Hot composting with temperature sensor
• Hot composting rabbit litter
• Worm farm with temperature sensor
• Smart tank with Bureau of Meteorology rain forecasts
• Rabbit hutch tiny house
• Tiny energy efficient house with temperature sensor
• Solar shower with temperature sensor
• Greenhouse with temperature sensor
• Native grassland restoration project
• Pollinator friendly native garden project
• Small bird attracting native garden project
• Waterway native garden project

The Things Network

• Pycom Pygate setup
• How To Register Pycom LoRa Sensors on The Things Network

Sustainable Computers

• Debian installation on Mac
• Raspberry Pi setup
• Installing Atom on PC or Mac
• Using MediaWiki - the same software that runs Wikipedia
• Essential software
• Node-RED installation