Thursday

BeeHive

This project started out of an interest to streamline the way we set up research systems. We needed something Open Source, modular, affordable and easy to reproduce. To avoid reinventing the wheel, we based the connectivity of BeeHive on the Grove ecosystem. Developed by Seeed Studio, Grove is an open source system with dozens of sensors and actuators. With this compatibility in place we can focus on developing modules that are not present in Grove, and add to their ecosystem at the same time. Beehive follows the principle of one function per board, and is built with Through-hole components, so that boards can be hand soldered. All documentation is already publicly available.

For this part of the course we will demo an example on how beehive boards can be put together to control different systems.

Demo: Turn on a fan with boards.

Putting boards together to do your own tasks

Show that BeeHive can be combined with Grove system through connectors and Grove modules can be used to achieve objectives that otherwise can not be completed with the current version of BeeHive. Also, point out that Beehive is an open source project so if anybody wishes, they can propose, develop and add their own stuff on top of what is already there.