wheel_rfm69_counter/pcb/README.md

Wheel Counter, Battery Powered, RFM69 at 433MHz

Objective

• Monitor how much critters are running on their wheels, at The Creature Conservancy. Physical activity could correlate with health
• Create a wireless, battery powered, sensing network for additional sensors in the future

Features

• NFC antenna for quick reading/changing of metadata (i.e. setting the animal name for transmission)
• RTC (Real Time Clock)
• N-MOSFET polarity protection
• Several debug switches
• TagConnect interface

Schematic

PCB

What's Next

• Populating PCB
• Writing code

License: GPLv3 where not covered by other licenses

Resources

NFC antenna design taken from Sparkfun's implementation Footprints from various sources online, including Sparkfun and Adafruit