Tag: esp-8266
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Designing a prototype tracker
We have been working for some time, designing a more complete prototype Arctic Tracker. The plan is to produce up to 10 units, with financial support from the Norwegian Radio Relay League. We will use a Tekal 12.30 aluminum enclosure (like the Polaric Tracker), it will have a display, and a PA module that can…
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Tracking, internet and igate
I have been busy hacking the tracker. Now it can connect to a server on the internet, it can function as an igate or digipeater and it tracks positions nicely. Tracking is quite like the Polaric Tracker. Every 10 second it checks the position (from the GPS module) and depending on the speed, distance between…
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Working with the WIFI module
The Arctic Tracker lab model has a main microcontroller unit (Teensy 3) and a ESP-12 WIFI module. Now, can we connect the tracker to a PC or to the internet (using WIFI) and can we make a web interface to configure the tracker? Yes, it seems like we can. It can connect to the internet,…
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Assembling and testing the tracker lab model
The picture above shows the PCB for the Arctic Tracker with most parts mounted. It was straightforward to solder the parts on the board, except the Teensy. It can be tricky since it need to have 37 pins soldered on it first, and these should either be soldered onto the PCB either directly or a…
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Designing a lab model
The Arctic Tracker project is not dead (yet). The idea is to develop a tracker device with traits like these: It is modular, it can be assembled mainly from existing modules. Should be fairly easy to assemble. It has plenty of computing room and is open source. It can be a platform for hacking and…