I’ve been away for a while and everyone deserves an apology since we are creating our small regolith research unit in Costa Rica (at my hometown) we single handedly had to develop all the instrumentation from the ground up. I have finally configured the Soil-Humidty and Temperature sensor for our research. Soon I’ll create a small guide on how to configure them since this definitely took ages and some embedded programming tricks. They are rechargeable as well! (Not space level but at least we can pull the data without affecting the samples) I’ll fly to Costa Rica in 2 weeks to begin our ground zero testing with rainforest soils-other soils and see what happens. Thanks everyone for the patience @rachelcrivero@borjabarbero big thanks to the Rasul which gave us the calibration formula thanks to @ssolomongavin for keeping the fort at the AIML unit
I am not sure if your sensors taking on account the radiation caused sensors drift, if no please feel free to contact me about the cooperation with the future development of your sensors including the adjustment of the sensors values taking on the account the mentioned issues
Very cool!! I would love to hear more about your sensor if you’re able/willing to talk about it at a future PlantAWG meeting. (@dr.richard.barker / @borjabarbero )
Perhaps you’d like to have a presentation and discussion period at a up coming Genelab plant AWG meeting? That we can learn more about your sensor system to see if our SME’s can provide using feedback
I’m surprised as i can see it on my calendar; the next meeting is the 10th of December. We’ve going to be discussing algae in space in part of the session. We can also discuss your sensor as we have time and are interdisciplinary. Would your sensor also work in algae solutions? What would do you think it might detect if algae solution was added to the regolith? All things we can discuss in the meeting; these concepts spring from this recent paper on algae remediation of regolith Frontiers | Spirulina supported plant growth in regolith simulants and elevated levels of CO2
Hey Dr. Richard, the sensor obtains analog readings from soil humidity, environment temperature and environment humidity. The analog soil reading could be use as a main comparator for regolith vs regolith+algae
since we are creating our small regolith research unit in Costa Rica (at my hometown) we single handedly had to develop all the instrumentation from the ground up. I have finally configured the Soil-Humidty and Temperature sensor for our research. Soon I’ll create a small guide on how to configure them since this definitely took ages and some embedded programming tricks. They are rechargeable as well! (Not space level but at least we can pull the data without affecting the samples) I’ll fly to Costa Rica in 2 weeks to begin our ground zero testing with rainforest soils-other soils and see what happens. Thanks everyone for the patience @rachelcrivero @borjabarbero big thanks to the Rasul which gave us the calibration formula 
thanks to @ssolomongavin for keeping the fort at the AIML unit 
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