Category: NB-IoT Hat

NB-IoT Hat rev 1.1

Just a minor upgrade of my NB-IoT Hat Cleaned up ground plane, remove one UART, added new SWD and resistors on SPI1. I have still not have time to assemble test the previous one, so will do that as soon as I get a SIM card. This Hat is cool because NB-IoT means you buy…

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Modular Control System

This drawing is an overview of the Hat’s in progress. A few is only on the planning stage, but most electronics is on prototype level and SW is coming on. Raspberry PI is the obvious core if I need heavier processing. Due to the nature of it’s SPI I can only connect one of these…

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BasicPI Firmware Stack

This illustrates the BasicPI Firmware Stack in progress. What I always do in embedded applications is to make a “standard” main.cpp as follows: void AppInit() {    // wire hardware } int main() {    AppInit();    // start OS } A team I worked in years ago agreed on this standard so we should…

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NB-IoT/SIM7020E Hat

This provides a NB-IoT module with SIM card and antenna on a Raspberry PI Hat format. NB-IoT requires a mobile phone subscription and allow you to send sensor data real-time.