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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
Term 1
- What is a Sustainable Smart City?
- How do we use environmental sensors?
- Saving the 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
- Mini challenge
Term 2
- Creating a web page in HTML
- Adding Cascading Style Sheets to web pages
- Creating dynamic web pages using Python
- 3D printing using TinkerCAD
- Laser cutting using TinkerCAD
- Janefield wetland sensor data using Python and Node-RED
- IBM Cloud Lite and Node-RED for sensor data
Term 3
- Janefield wetland field excursion
- Exploring analog sensors - turbidity sensor
- Bureau of Meteorology weather data
- Exploring soil moisture sensors
- Exploring distance sensors in smart tanks
- Graph data using Python and plotly
- Uploading web site to GitHub Pages
Term 4
- Smart solutions workshop - ideation
- Build a smart bee hive with load sensors
- Smart bee hive with Infra-Red beam sensors
- Build a solar hot water shower with temperature sensor
- Build a tiny energy efficient house with temperature sensor
- Grow tomatoes in pots using soil moisture sensors
- Hot compost and worm farm challenge
- Build a greenhouse to raise seedlings
- Build a GPS Litter Picker
- Smart solution presentation
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