How to make any micocontroller run forever using solar energy?
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Hello I am working on a project using nodemcu.
In my home for years every day, someone has to walk up to the terrace of the house to check the water level and then turn the motor on/off.
I am planning to read the water levels in the tank using an ultrasonic sensor and push data into the cloud so that we don't need to go to the terrace to check the water level.
I would like my nodemcu module to run infinitely all the time using solar power. I have an old solar panel at home which is left unused and was used to charge a solar lamp. What other things do I need to implement this project? what battery should I use?
How do I implement this project?
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@milanvarghese Basically you have cited the solution to your question. yes, you can run the Arduino microcontroller from a solar panel with some protection circuitry in between. There are many tutorials and blogs out there. You can start with something as following.
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@kowshik1729 I have seen this, but doesnt it damage that battery? dischargeing and charging at the same time?
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@milanvarghese No, the battery comes into the play only if there is no power from the solar cell. It's like inverters in our home. They activate only if main power is gone, rest of the time they keep charging. similarly here the direct power will be coming from the solar cell, only if the solar cell can't produce enough voltage battery comes into the loop and starts providing voltage to our circuit.
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Hi team,
Any one have experience in Altium schematic designing.
I am facing some issue in Hierarchy->harness in Schematic.
The offpage number for harness is not showing, and while generation the smart PDF if we click the harness port /green box the page want to go there automatically, but that also not working. -
Hi @dipu_varghese ,
Here is the sample input from the binary edge impulse inference,
Predictions (DSP: 16 ms., Classification: 1 ms., Anomaly: 2 ms.): idle: 0.91016 snake: 0.08203 updown: 0.00391 wave: 0.00391 anomaly score: -0.067”And from here for example we can try to get the updown values only by attaching the device to another controller and read the Serial string directly.
void setup() { // Start serial communication at 9600 baud Serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { // Wait until there is data available on the serial port while (!Serial.available()) { // Do nothing } // Read the input string from the serial port String inputString = Serial.readStringUntil('\n'); // Find the position of the "updown" value in the input string int updownPos = inputString.indexOf("updown:"); // If the "updown" value was found in the input string if (updownPos >= 0) { // Extract the "updown" value from the input string String updownString = inputString.substring(updownPos + 8, inputString.indexOf('\n', updownPos)); // Convert the "updown" value to a float float updownValue = updownString.toFloat(); // Output the "updown" value Serial.println(updownValue); } }The sketch should then output the "updown" value, which is 0.08203.
Hope this will be helpful, let me know if you need more clarification.