I'm building a dust sensor for the wood workshop

#1

Talking with @joeatkin2 and @lewisss came out that a dust sensor in the wood workshop would be a great way to turn off the Noisy Fan when is not needed, recently I found a dust sensor (Sharp GP2Y1010AU0F) that can sense between 0 and 0.8 mg/m3 .

The idea is to have an LED matrix to display the readings , a relay to turn on and of the fan and would be good to have wifi to upload the readings.

The question is:

Do we have any kind of favourite gateway to upload the reading? like an official thingspeak channel?

#2

We already have some stuff on thingspeak, but no official channel as such. No need for one is there, so long as it’s linked from here?

#3

Sorry, my english is failing me there :confused:

#4

No need for an “official” thingspeak channel is what I mean

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#5

Have a chat with @courty.

Increasingly it would be good to have a place for this data, this is something @jonathanjo has previously identified.

#6

This would be a great idea. It would also be worth seeing if we can track if the air quality drops below acceptable levels: having clean filters in the box makes a massive difference, and I guess it would be helpful to track when they need changing.

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#7

I have a load of stuff in ThingSpeak / MLab, including the SLMS Environment sensors in the Clean and Messy areas, happy to walk you through it.

Clean Area - https://thingspeak.com/channels/197562
Messy Area - https://thingspeak.com/channels/203323

I also have a sharp dust sensor somewhere - I planned to do something similar for my workshop but its just on an ever increasing To Do list. will see if I can dig it out.

Courty

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#8

I already bought the sensor :wink:

#9

no problem, i’ll just steal your design then :smile:

Courty

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#10

LOL at the increase in temp/humidity during members evening:

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#11

Its great that so much Awesome in one arch is detectable :blush:

Courty

#12

Ah ‘the temperature in the room’!

#13

Is there an elephant sensor on the market?

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#14

Something something load of hot air…

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#15

It’s on the ducting. …

#16

Or the trunking

(god forgive me)

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#17

You could always make a new filter box with bigger filters.

#18

I think the system we have is just about keeping up with the load - once we complete whatever plan is proposed to capture the fines at source (at the extractor) by boxing it in or whatever I’m sure it will be great.

#19

Moving it to the back in a plasterbord box

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#20

We need a bike shedding detector for members meetings STAT.