Legacy case study

Garden Sensor Network

A web interface for a learning-center garden wired up with light, temperature, and moisture sensors. Built at UCSD with a cross-discipline engineering team.

Year2011
StatusShipped

Overview

Sensors were streaming readings as JSON, but no one at the center had a way to see them in context.

Work

Designed and implemented the web UI on top of the incoming JSON stream. Collaborated with computer science, electrical, and mechanical engineers on the surrounding hardware-software stack, and extended a Processing-based UCSD Music Video Game in the same program.

Result

An early example of a pattern I still value: take technical readings and make them useful to real people. Built as part of UCSD TIES at the Town and Country Learning Center.

Stack

  • JSON
  • Web UI
  • Processing
  • Sensor data

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