Wind Power and the Raspberry Pi /Arduino As a last minute addition to Project Curacao (a massive solar and wind powered Raspberry Pi / Arduino project), I added a small 12V 50W (supposedly 50W – see characterization) wind turbine to […]
Today we hit five weeks of Project Curacao running in the warm and windy climate. The project has been fairly robust to this point. We lost one sensor last week. The light color sensor (BM017 / tsc3574) went dead […]
Project Curacao Upgrade The box is still performing well after three weeks. We are planning an maintenance trip to Curacao in September, 2014. The planned upgrades are: 1) Replacement of Wind Turbine (with maybe a different type) UPDATE: August 8, […]
Today was the big day. We mounted the Project Curacao wind turbine (here on Amazon) and the box up on the tower. March 13, 2014. It’s running fine. You can see the graphs and latest picture on https://www.milocreek.com/projectcuracaographs. Thank you […]
All of our equipment has arrived here on the island. TSA inspected the box twice, but aside from picking up the box with the outside temperature sensor, pulling the wires off, it survived. The temperature sensor was fixable. There were […]
Update (03/26/14): The Wind Turbine was deployed down in Curacao two weeks ago. The actual data from the Turbine matched this article quite well. About 60-90ma at 15 MPH. Not much (and not nearly enough to run the box – […]
This past weekend we did the loaded testing for the two potential configurations for the wind turbines for Project Curacao. Two 15W Wind Turbine Configuration We first tested a two 15W Wind Turbine configuration. Our guess is that we could get […]
Here is a screen shot of RasPiConnect capturing the wind storm that came through last weekend. We had the 15W Wind Turbine hooked up and reporting through the Project Curacao software. It was fortuitous that the wind storm came through. […]
Update (03/26/2014): We have finished the characterization and deployed the $80 50W wind turbine. The model and characterization was close. See the blog posting about the 50W Loaded Characterization and the Project Curacao Operational Blog posting) We decided a while […]
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