This repository contains everything related to the development of Atmospheric Electricity Sensors for the ReACT team of the National Observatory of Athens. Specifically, two such sensors are designed to be suitable for weather balloon deployments:
- a Miniature FieldMill Electrometer (MiniMill)
- a Space Charge Sensor
Full description of the sensors is included in the Wiki page.
In this repository you can find:
decoder: A library, CMD tool and UI tool for decoding XDATA packages transmitted by the sensors through a GRAW radiosonde. Written in C#.firmware: Arduino sketches for the microcontrollers of the two sensors.pcb: Board designs and schematics for both sensors.specs: Sensor technical specifications.
This research was supported by D-TECT (Grant Agreement 725698) funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
- Team lead: Lilly Daskalopoulou vdaskalop@noa.gr @ModusElectrificus
- Hardware Engineering: Vasilis Spanakis-Misirlis vspanakis@noa.gr
- Consulting: Thanasis Georgiou ageorgiou@noa.gr @thgeorgiou
Fieldmill firmware uses code from the ElectronicCats/mpu6050 library, available under the MIT license.