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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2065-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2065-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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24 Apr 2019
Research article |
| 24 Apr 2019
| 24 Apr 2019
Open-source Arduino-compatible data loggers designed for field research
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, John T. Tate Hall, 116 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, 2 3rd Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA
Northern Widget LLC, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Chad T. Sandell
Northern Widget LLC, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Bobby Schulz
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, John T. Tate Hall, 116 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Northern Widget LLC, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Kenneth H. Keller Hall, 200 Union St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Gene-Hua Crystal Ng
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, John T. Tate Hall, 116 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, 2 3rd Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA
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Short summary
Measuring Earth's changing environment is a critical part of natural science, but to date most of the equipment to do so is expensive, proprietary, and difficult to customize. We addressed this challenge by developing and deploying the ALog, a low-power, lightweight, Arduino-compatible data logger. We present our hardware schematics and layouts, as well as our customizable code library that operates the ALog and helps users to link it to off-the-shelf sensors.
Measuring Earth's changing environment is a critical part of natural science, but to date most...
