Water resistant controller board with inbuild sensors

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TuomoK
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Water resistant controller board with inbuild sensors

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Hello!

I've searched many forums and topics to understand the biggest problems with controller boards. I've been found out that outdoor durability, cellular connectivity and battery life are real pain for some projects.

We have been worked for a while with pocketable size and IP67 classified controller board with inbuild sensors. I believe this board could solve many problems with outdoor durability and size.

Developing work is still ongoing and what we need is your experience to understand the most needed features.

Thank you for your help!
TuomoK
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Re: Water resistant controller board with inbuild sensors

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Hello again!

Here is some more exact information about our product.

Wireless connections:
2G Quadband GPRS
WLAN
BT 4.1

Wired connections:
Micro USB 2.0
GPIO pins on PCB
JTAG on PCB

Sensors:
3D Accelerometer
A-GPS Location
Temperature
Humidity
Pressure
Gyroscope
Magnetometer
Ambient Light Sensor
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KR2_Diving
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Re: Water resistant controller board with inbuild sensors

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TuomoK,
Sounds like quite the undertaking you have on your hands!

I know for the HomebuiltROV community, a very important feature is compatibility with PRESSURE. As we dive, the deeper we go, the more the pressure issue compounds...

Cheap Capacitors are a common culprit leading to failure as they often have internal "air pockets" that do not react well to the pressure.

I have heard that battery packs are another common source of failure... again, with the way the layers are all packed together... sometimes air pockets are created.

IP67 is a great rating to have should we spring a leak and need to get to the surface under control before being totally flooded, but IP67 alone typically does not cover the depths we are all hoping to explore.

Hope this is useful!

Best of luck! Keep us posted!

Ryan
"KR2_DIving"
TuomoK
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Hi KR2_Diving!

Thank you for your comments.

We already have solved major problems and executing this device won't be a problem. Discussions for higher IP classification is still ongoing, but I think full waterproofness, in the depth you need, won't be possible without extra cover. And I'm not sure how our pressure sensor will work with extra cover.

All comments and ideas are welcome.

Thanks! I'll keep you posted!
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Re: Water resistant controller board with inbuild sensors

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Hi!

We have opened our website. There is lot of official information available.

http://www.thingsee.com/

Please feel free to comment!

-Tuomo
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You can find behind the scene developing work materials from our kickstarter page.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ha ... for-mobile

-tuomo
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Re: Water resistant controller board with inbuild sensors

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Hello all!

Thank you for your comments so far!

Do you have any ideas who else would be interested about Thingsee One?

BR

Tuomo
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During our campaign preparations we also made some mistakes... :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/related/2 ... _airspace/
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