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 with temperature sensor
- Build a greenhouse to raise seedlings with temperature sensor
- Build a GPS Litter Picker
- Smart solution presentation