New Design for Instrument
Written by Ning Zeng on 2019-09-06 14:46:14Here is a preliminary view of what our instrument will look like!
The outside is a radiation shield which provides protection from the sun and all other weather. It is specially designed to allow for proper ventilation for the most accurate measurements. It has louvers or angled shutters to keep air flowing and anything else out.
We are going to use a 3D printer to make each piece of the radiation shield and assemble it by stacking them on top of one another.
Inside the shield, there are two components, a battery in yellow and the base station assembly in blue and red. The base station assembly has a housing, inside of which is the Raspberry Pi (blue). The Printed Circuit Board (PCB) is in the middle (red) and the CO2 sensor on the top (red). There are also two satellite boards in blue on the walls which have more sensors on them such as temperature and humidity.