New AoT Nodes for UChicago

Arduinos, Velcro, ODROIDS, Sensors, and a glue gun -- the making of an AoT node.
Arduinos, Velcro, ODROIDS, Sensors, and a glue gun — the making of an AoT node.

Mike Papka‘s students from the Northern Illinois University computer science department and North Central College have been busy building the next deployment of Waggle-based Array of Things nodes on for the UChicago campus.  The first batch of nodes designed by the  School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been on campus for a couple of months.  The university wrote a short news article about the deployment.

This deployment is using Version-1 boards and the original SAIC node design.  We are now gearing up for an even bigger deployment, and by the end of the summer we will be deploying Version-2 nodes, with new and improved sensors.  Watch this space…