Off-grid Solar PV Panel project
First Lesson
Arduino IDE Installation and Configuration on a Raspberry Pi
- Video 1 - Introduction to the Solar PV with Battery Storage project
- Video 2 - Serial Communication between Raspberry Pi and Arduino - YouTube video showing how the Raspberry Pi and Arduino can communicate using (USB) serial communications.
- Video 2 is embedded in this site Raspberry Pi Arduino Serial communication - but use the video above as the primary tutorial.
- Serial communication will be important in gathering data from the Solar PV system so that system performance can be monitored.
- Serial communication is also used to configure the different components of the Solar PV system.
Materials
- Access to the internet (YouTube)
- Arduino Uno
- Raspberry Pi
- Serial cable (USB Type A to Type Mini-B) to connect the Raspberry Pi to the Arduino Uno
