Got the sensor-birdhouse controller board all designed and out to fab. Ought to have been a 2-hour project, but with distractions and tinkering, it ended up taking all day.
Ordered a half-dozen copies from OSH Park. Now I need to order parts. And more copies of the things that connect to it. And I need to 3D print a few more birdhouses, and write the firmware (mainly based on existing libraries, I think). Some testing can happen while boards are being fabbed; after all, I have a couple of cobbled-together units sitting on the bench.
I need to take a closer look at the radio protocol and the available libraries and figure out what, if anything, I can practically do with the back channel. The design includes some outputs, just in case there turns out to be a use for them.
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