Repairing Hexa

During my time at MOD. I purchased a Vincross HEXA as part of our robotics education program. It’s a beautiful six legged robot that can be controlled via a mobile phone app, or their MIND SDK. Fast forward to a couple years down the track, and I’m now working for ACMI on their renewal project, …

Power & battery management

Until now I’ve been powering the water quality sensors via a USB cable either to an external power supply, or directly to my laptop for debugging. For the sensors to work in the real world they’ll need to have at least a day’s battery life if not a week to be useable. I can imagine …

Water Quality iOS app

LoRa is great when there’s a network available, but for in-person water quality readings I thought it’d be convenient to add Bluetooth. I had a spare BLE Nano v2 sitting around, so decided to wire that in. It acts as a relay, broadcasting everything that the Water Quality sensor outputs over serial, and pushing it …