This "Sun-Tracker" is our most advanced demonstrator. Similar to a real sunflower, it turns its flower towards the sun to collect as much light as possible. Like the Modular Weather Station, it can send data to the Internet via MQTT. For your convenience there are two sets of instructions. One includes step-by-step instructions for building the complete Sun-Tracker. The other is an abbreviated version suitable for a four-hour workshop and assumes that all soldering and other preparatory work has already been completed.
This repository contains all necessary files and is structured as follows:
- doc contains documentation such as
- assembly manual
- bill of material
- code contains program code to run the model
- dashboards contains example dashboards for ThingsBoard (see description below).
- model contains the printable 3D model
The example dashboards are tailored for the IoT variant of the control software To use the example dashboards:
- Import the JSON file as ThingsBoard dashboard
- Enter edit mode
- For each widget adjust:
- if the target device field is empty: Enter the appropriate target device.
- if the target device field is not empty, the dashboard features an entity alias to reference the target device. In this case edit the alias to have it pointing towards the appropriate target device.
- Save the dashboard
Please note: different licenses apply depending on the type of content.
All documents and 3d models (files ending with .pdf and .stl) are licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.
All files containing code are licensed under GNU GPL V3.
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