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This board was used to determine the orientation of a large piece of equipment. It combined the sensing of the earths magnetic field with an accelerometor to give high accuracy feedback of the devices orientation....

This board was designed to control heavy machinery and trackers with extreme precision. It harnessed NASA’s NREL solar position algorithms which takes into account the devices location on the planet and current time to pinpoint the sun to 0.003 degrees of accuracy. The board is designed with ethernet networking, web-server hosting, inverter monitoring, weather integration, yearly data-logging, GPS location and radio networking....

This solar tracker was a great demonstration of proof of concept prototype. Iterating on quick cost effective 3D prints let us dial in the sensor parameters. This device offloads complex computational work from multiple costly devices and sensors into a simple unified package. The device was able to pinpoint the sun to within half a degree of accuracy even on cloudy days. This used a culmination...