Ready to put your Tech Tutors skills into practice? WILDLABS and Freaklabs are proud to announce our new virtual course: Build Your Own Data Logger. This eight-part video tutorial series will guide wildlife and conservation researchers through building and deploying custom hardware using the Arduino platform. To join, Register now!
This course is free to all, but if you would like to build along with the course in real-time, you can purchase the WildLogger board and kit for $30 (USD) here
About the Series
If our first season of Tech Tutors inspired you to put your conservation tech skills to the test, we've got a brand-new experience coming to WILDLABS! Where can you start learning how to use Arduino to build custom devices for wildlife and conservation research? Right here!
Beginning this November, WILDLABS and Freaklabs are proud to introduce an eight-part video tutorial series that guides wildlife and conservation researchers through building and deploying custom hardware using the Arduino platform. The series will use WildLogger - an Arduino-based board that’s designed for deployment - to create a custom data logger.
Are you new to Arduino, or maybe not entirely sure what Arduino is? Good news - this series is for beginners like you! By the end of our eight modules, you'll have the practical skills and knowledge base you need to deploy your creation for real.
The series assumes no hardware experience. It’ll cover common terminology, components, the hardware design stack, setting up the Arduino environment, programming and optimising your application, choosing and modifying enclosures, piloting, testing, deploying and troubleshooting.
You’re not on your own. Our interactive series makes it easier than ever to get feedback and guidance as you learn. Every two weeks, we’ll host a live Office Hours event to troubleshoot, answer questions in person, and release the next module in the series. We'll also have cheat sheets and code to download, plus a forum to ask questions between sessions. And of course, you can build along with the course in real-time with the WildLogger board and kit, available here.
The tutorial is free and allows you to move at your own pace with videos available to all on the WILDLABS Youtube channel. To navigate through all course content, visit the Course Directory.
To join this virtual course, register here!
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Hi everyone, We're rethinking the live component of the Build Your Own Datalogger course and would love to hear your ideas.... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 4 months ago | |
Hi Everyone, We've got your final module release for module 3 going into your weekend - happy Friday! ... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 4 months ago | |
Ha ha ha. We'll look into PlatformIO perhaps in the future, once we have a break with the courses. In the meantime, there's a lot of other hardware, sensors, and... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 4 months ago | |
It is true Akiba, I did not remember this option, that the Arduino IDE allows us to work with an external editor I will also try to send a message to the Platformio managers to... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 4 months ago | |
An observation I made when first experimenting with DHT22 modules with a Raspberry Pi years ago that still seems true with Arduino and DHT11 sensors. The first reading of... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 4 months ago | |
@Jeffm Oh that's great to hear. We've had a couple of cable issues so far, but I'm really glad you got the problem sorted. Onward and upward! Akiba... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 5 months ago | |
Ha ha ha. it will be much more important than that later on. Stay tuned :) Akiba |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 5 months ago | |
Hi Liam. To get the cables through the cable gland, we'll need to remove the wires from the terminal housing and then reinstall them. That will be in a later module... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 5 months ago | |
Thank you, that's very helpful. Nice to see it is a shortcut. |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 5 months ago | |
Hi everyone, while beeing separated from my Wildlogger board I still had to play with some sensors ;-) Ceck out this wonderful project: https://sensebox.de/en/ Great to learn... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 5 months ago | |
Hi there! Yes, we're in the process of working out the new schedule - several of the modules have ended up being longer and more in-depth than we originally expected, so we... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 3 years 5 months ago | |
Oh! Okay that's good to know, we'll move the links. |
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