So the main things are it needs to be USB powered. The two versions I have planned are via micro USB female and male normal USB, both with a 3.3v regulator so I have access to 5 volts and 3.3 volts without having to use the arduino as a power source (as to not blow out anything).
The female micro USB will be so you can plug in a standard phone charger to the unit and the male usb is so you can plug it in to a 120v to 5v USB power brick that many people have.
So as for hardware, I hope to use an arduino mini, esp8266 and a variety of sensors below. Ideally the arduino will host a web server with all of the sensor data in a JSON format. This way it can be queried by something like a program or script and have the data already in a useful format. Perhaps even give it an option to POST directly to elasticsearch.
Feature Wish List:
- Sensors
- PIR sensor
- Ultrasonic range finder
- Laser tripwire
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Light intensity
- Barometric Pressure
- Gas sensor
- LED display - button press shows current IP one digit at a time
- All-in-one package (3D printed enclosure)
- DIP switch to turn sensors on and off
- Master on/off switch
- Laser on/off switch
- Female headers for all sensors (easy to replace)
- Ideally a custom printed PCB with all mounts for best use of space
Perhaps more, perhaps less if I can't find a way to use them all. Or if I can't figure out how to do it.
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