Seeed Monthly: November Comes to an End
Hey community,
As time flies, we’re now officially in the last month of 2022! To get you an overall filled-in of what happened in November, here comes the wrap-up for November.
For this post, I’ll walk you through 3 exciting news, 6 case studies (of smart agriculture, AMRs, air monitoring, 3D machine vision and more), 2 tech for good, 3 wikis & how-to, 4 community project spotlight, 2 ways of how you can co-create and scale up your projects with Seeed. Spoiler, a lot of ESPHome and Home Assistant related goodies!
Now, have a good read!
News that You Shouldn't Miss
01 NEW Product: Raspberry Pi CM4 Powered Industrial Edge Controller EdgeBox-RPi-200
Meet EdgeBox-RPi-200 series, a collection of all-in-one Raspberry Pi-based industrial edge computing controllers, combining multiple industrial purposes. It is equipped with up to 4GB RAM and 32GB eMMC for various requirements. Learn more here.
02 Free Shipping for Orders with 3 Items Or More from Overseas Warehouse!
In order to further optimize our customer service, we want to provide a new free shipping service for customers who place orders from our overseas warehouses (US, UK and EU) from now on — Free shipping on orders of 3 items or more, applicable to all products in overseas warehouses. Learn more here.
03 NEW Release: Raspberry Pi Powered Industrial Edge Controller EdgeLogix RPI-1000
To expand our Raspberry Pi product ecosystem, we’ve launched EdgeLogix-RPI-1000, a Raspberry Pi-based industrial controller capable of all-in-one application scenarios. Designed with intensive IO ports and delicate modules mounted on board, it also supports extensive industrial bus protocols, and equip with cloud services support to show wireless capabilities. Learn more here.
Case Studies: Smart Agriculture, AMRs, Air Monitoring, 3D Machine Vision and More
01 Portugal Smart Vineyard: Reducing 15% Water Consumption with SenseCAP LoRaWAN Solution
SenseCAP IoT Wireless devices collects and monitors real-time data (light intensity, soil moisture and temperature), which is sent to Quinta do Bouro’s Smart Vineyard cloud platform via Helium LoRaWAN network to improve the Machine Learning Algorithm for Sustainable farming. By collecting data and improving algorithms, Quinta do Bouro’s Smart Agriculture project enables farmers to make more accurate decisions in response to climate and environmental changes, tackling a range of problems such as water waste and overuse of fertilizer. Learn more here.
02 Jetson-Powered Robot Iroi and Patrovor Integrated with 1:N Simultaneous Monitoring for Security
Warehouses, logistical companies, agriculture businesses, healthcare institutions and even households are all turning to autonomous mobile robots to improve operational efficiency, enhance speed, ensure precision, and increase safety. For this post, let’s shed the light on one member in our Edge AI Ecosystem Dogugonggan and how they apply our Edge AI devices to build their indoor and outdoor AMRs: Iroi and Patrovor. Learn more here.
03 OpenAirMonitor — Measuring Particulates, Humidity and Temperature in UK with Wio-E5 and Seeed Fusion
Gerrit Niezen realized the seriousness of the environmental problem early on and built 3 versions in total of his solar-powered outdoor air quality monitor that transmits air quality data over LoRaWAN and Bluetooth. Seeed’s Fusion PCB assembly service has been chosen to manufacture both the second and third revisions of the Wio-E5 based hardware. Learn more here.
04 DexForce Scales up its NVIDIA Jetson-Powered 3D Camera with Seeed Fusion PCBA
Xema, is a NVIDIA Jetson Nano module powered Open source industrial 3D camera designed by Dexforce, a start-up AI company focusing on 3D machine vision. We’re glad to share that Seeed Fusion provides Dexforce team with delicate manufacturing advice from 0.1 to 1. Power-efficient with a compact form factor, Jetson Modules brings accelerated AI performance to the Edge. Learn more here.
05 A LoRa® Navigation System based on Seeed Wio-e5 and Fusion PCBA
With the help of the Seeed Fusion PCBA service, Addepalli Dolendra Vikas has designed a LoRa® communicator prototype called “directMessage” to tackle problems of information security and communication privacy. More to read.
06 Anchoring with Peace of Mind – A LoRa® Boat Monitoring System based on Seeed Wio-E5
Sponsored by the Seeed Fusion Power-up PCBA service, Thanos Pelekoudas is able to build a LoRa® monitoring system with the Seeed Studio Wio-E5 wireless module that keeps track of boats’ certain conditions remotely. Learn more here.
Tech for Good
01 DinoCon 3 in Sri Lanka: Seeed Facilitated an AIoT2Wild Workshop and Hands-on Project Using SenseCAP K1100 Kit for Smart Luffa Farming!
From July 10th to 20th, Seeed’s Field Application Engineer, Lakshantha Dissanayake went to Sri Lanka for an on-site event called ‘Dinacon 3’ – an event focused on wild hacking for nature. We’re happy to have supported Lakshantha’s trip to the event, as well as sponsored 6 units of SenseCAP K1100 Kits, and 1 unit of SenseCAP M2 Data-Only LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway for 15 workshop participants and his smart luffa farming project. More to read.
002 GOSH 2022 in Panama: Seeed Organized AIoT2Wild and Custom Electronic Design Workshops Using SenseCAP K1100 Kit!
During October 26-29th, the 4th edition of Gathering for Open Science Hardware was held in Panama. Seeed’s Field Application Engineer joined the event on-site to organize 2 hands-on workshops on using SenseCAP K1100 Kit for environmental and wildlife conservation scenarios. On this background, we’re happy to have supported Mario’s trip to the event, as well as sponsored 11 units of SenseCAP K1100 Kit for his workshop participants. More to read.
Tech Tree
01 How Matter Will Transform Your Smart Home?
A few weeks ago, Matter was announced and now it has become the talk of the town in the Smart Home world. Let’s dive deep into what the fuzz is all about and whether it really matters to use Matter! More to read.
02 Selection Guide of Grove Temp & Hum Sensor for ESPHome!
In this blog, we are going to dive deeper into these temperature and humidity sensors and provide a selection guide for you to find the most suitable one. More to read.
Wiki & How To
01 Tango with Home Assistant and SenseCAP Sensors
Home Assistant is one of the best platforms to build a fully customized smart home ecosystem, integrating mainstream devices and setting automation rules to make your home a better and smarter place. In this article, I will share how I build a decent smart home in Home Assistant and integrate SenseCAP LoRaWAN sensors into the application. More to read.
02 Deploying Home Assistant on Seeed H68K/reRouter with OpenWRT
Home Assistant is the popular home automation control platform. In this guide, we will use Seeed Studio Linkstar H68K as an example to deploy the Home Assistant with OpenWRT. More to read.
03 5 Minutes to Develop an Industrial LoRaWAN Sensor
Today, we can use a wireless LoRa collector, set up sensors to connect to an app via Bluetooth and build a product in five minutes, directly into a commercial project. Let’s quickly build an industrial-grade LoRaWAN wireless sensor for direct commercial use in 5 minutes.. More to read.
Co-Create with Seeed
01 Seeed Grove Designers’ Guide: PCB design guidelines and more
No clue on how to develop your first Grove sensor for the Co-Create Grove Sensor Campaign? How should creators go about designing a Grove module? What qualifies as a Grove module and what should designers look out for? This article sets out to give guidance to PCB designers and more. More to read.
02 Co-Create Grove Module Libraries for ESPHome/Home Assistant
To better support the smart home community, now we are inviting engineers to join us to co-create new Grove Module Libraries to work with ESPHome and Home Assistant to promote the ecological construction of ESPHome together. Moreover, we have a number of Grove starter kits/devices up for grabs.. More to read.
Community Project Spotlight
01 Voice Control Toy and Display using XIAO and Edge Impulse by Billtheworld
This demo shows embedded ML voice controlling animation screen display and an interesting toy by XIAO nRF52840 Sense boards. Project tutorial here.
02 PCB Hotplate Mini Edition by Arnov Sharma
By using Fusion PCBA services, Arnov Sharma made a Microchip ATtiny13A-based PCB hotplate from scratch. Tutorial available on Hackster.
03Connect SenseCAP Sensors to TTN by Marc Pous, Xose Pérez
Connect the agriculture sensors SenseCAP S2101 and S2104 with The Things Stack LNS using a standalone LoRaWAN gateway on a Raspberry Pi with Balena. More details.
04 TOTEM | a tiny splitkeyboard with splay by Marc Rühl
The TOTEM uses Seeed XIAOs to run wired or wireless and comes with splay and a case. More details.
That’s it for this entry. As always, we can’t wait to see what you make. Shoot us a tweet @seeedstudio, or let us know on LinkedIn, Discord, or publish your project on our Project Hub on Hackster. Please be safe out there, be kind to one another, and we’ll see you next month with even more exciting news!
#Notes at the end.
If you’re new to this session, here is a brief intro. We have gotten dozens of requests over the years for a Seeed Monthly Newsletter. Although we already have a newsletter for weekly updates, we still need a place to host overall information about what’s happened on a monthly basis. It can offer an efficient and friendly way to get updated for the whole community. And that’s what we expect for our Seeed Monthly Wrap-ups. Instead of putting it as a subscribe-to-read, we’re publishing them on our blog, keeping it as open and accessible as possible for the whole community. For each entry, we will cover awesome projects from the community, campaigns that we are running, new products, IIoT Solutions, and even secret recipes for prototyping and manufacturing.
- Recap for October
- Recap for September 2022
- Recap for August 2022
- Recap for July 2022
- Recap for June 2022
- Recap for May 2022
- Recap for April 2022
- Recap for March 2022
- Recap for Jan&Feb 2022
- Year in Review: Seeed in 2021
- Recap for December 2021
- Recap for November 2021
- Recap for October 2021
- Recap for September 2021
- Recap for August 2021
- Recap for July 2021
- Recap for June 2021
- Recap for May 2021
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