POD (Portable Observation Device)

I may be a bit late with the upload but there's now an overnight scan from 14-11-2016 to 15-11-2016 in the dropbox folder.

Thanks Adam Fabio for featuring this on the hacklet :)

It's a bit late but we've done another field test over at Castle Ring. I was hoping to add a video with this but it didn't turn out that well. Anyway all the data is on the dropbox folder (Uploaded recordings in the links, the files are listed as 17-10-2015 Castle Ring, large and small versions).

All the source code for the project is now on Github, also I rewrote the project details to hopefully explain things better. I have an idea about how to add geotagging but I think I'm getting a little too far outside of what I currently understand.

Just to let people know I'm still working on this. I've added some extra menus to the GUI to support 4 different modes, but currently only snapshot and timelapse work reliably. If I can't get the other 2 working soon I'll probably just upload the software to github as is. I've also picked up a GPS reciever board so hopefully this thing will have geotagging at some point.

It not quite how I planned but the arduino sketch and the timelapse script are both in the project's dropbox folder.

I've done some field testing and the POD seems to be working, although there's still a fair bit to fine tune. If you want to take a look at the results I've uploaded the log files here:

POD folder on dropbox

So far there are 2 tests, the 1st was done at Castle Ring, on a particularly foggy Sunday morning. Both snapshot and timelapse modes were tested, but the timelapse mode took a few tries to get it to stay on. It turned out I hadn't enabled the pull-up resistor for the stop button, also the timing had some problems, so both of these issues are now fixed.

The 2nd test was the 2015 Eclipse. There's no photos on this file, but the sensor logs show the conditions 1 week before, 2 days before, and during the eclipse, with about 4 hours of data at 10 second intervals per scan.