Wireless Transceiver Design and Possible Blue-Green Algae Pilot Project

One of the projects that In Nature Robotics has been getting some assistance with through IRAP (Industrial Research Assistance Program) and RPC (New Brunswick's provincial research organization) is the circuit board and case layout for the wireless transceiver used by AMOS. The project is nearing completion and the 3D models that I have seen so far look pretty nice:

 There are some remaining issues to sort out about making sure that everything fits into the waterproof box, but these should be solved soon.

Yesterday I had a good meeting with a project manager at the City of Fredericton to discuss AMOS and the possibility of doing a pilot study this summer for measuring blue-green algae levels in the St. John River. A few years ago some dogs died after drinking river water that was contaminated by toxic concentrations of blue-green algae in the river, so the city has some interest in setting up a monitoring program to detect when and where blue-green algae might be a problem.

Later on today I'll be speaking to the Raspberry Pint club... I'll post a quick update afterward on how it went!

Update: The presentation to the Raspberry Pint club went pretty well I think. I was a bit unprepared for the slideshow not working as planned under Google Hangouts, but it seemed to work acceptably well when not presented in full-screen mode.and there was some good interest and questions from the people in attendance afterward. There were other interesting projects presented also; my favorite was a 3.5" floppy disk drive that a guy had rigged up to play individual songs through Spotify. Basically each 3.5" disk had some Spotify-related links and text written to file(s) on the disk which were read and would start playing the desired song after the disk was inserted.