Metronica.io - Your Arduino + Teensy + RasperryPI Farm

PROBLEMS: *For engineers & DIY hackers*

• Delays to get started due  to logistic/customs while waiting for the materials.

• Money lost due an imprecise first order of the materials.

• Lack of proper laboratory best practices, low prototyping efficiency.

SOLUTION:

Metronica.io is a web platform connected to an Arduino+Teensy+Raspberry PI farm facility. This is a real engineering laboratory, with a broad choice of sensors and actuators.

You will able to:

• Begin your next project now.

• Increase efficiency of the tests with the proper tools.

• Learn how a real engineer works and analyzes. Improve your laboratory skills.

• Get an effective bill of materials after using the service.

• Save money and time

The farm automates the "stage" with the board you requested. You will able to upload your Arduino code, get real-time telemetry, serial monitor, graph analysis, GPIO pins status, video streaming of the stage.

License

MIT License-The access to the platform metronica.io is currently still disabled.

How it Works

• You can write and compile the code with your local installed Arduino IDE or using a makefile.

• Install a new "custom board" into the Arduino IDE. Pressing upload, it actually connects the IDE to metronica.io. Alternatively a custom makefile is provided.

• Metronica.io is the analysis and real-time monitoring tool, you can create an account there and you can store into the cloud your workspace setup, eventually store the configurations and the code of your projects.

• The farm is where the robots run, the code get executed onto the board you requested (e.g. Arduino UNO, Teensy 3.1 or RPI).

• At the farm the robots quickly assemble the "stage" following your configuration.

• The helper system completes the setup multiplexing the pins with sensors and actuators according to your configuration.

• The helper system uploads your code into the target board.

• You get a reserved time slot to run your test at the configured "stage".

• The farm streams back to metronica.io the telemetry, the status of everything, results, serial monitor, GPIOs signals, and the video of the "stage" with the actuators while your code is running.

• On metronica.io you can visualize the data in real-time and debug your code to fix it and improve it. You get real-time graphical analysis of the inputs and outputs, and the access to the laboratory instruments connected to your stage.

Why this Project Matters

• You can get started earlier with your new project and save time probably lost in logistics or customs. You can begin to work at your ideas even before ordering and receiving the materials for your project. The platform boost your creativity providing the components even if you don't have them all.

• You save money with a resulting more effective bill of materials (BOM), because you already test your prototype under all the conditions and variables at the farm.

• You learn how to setup a professional engineering laboratory, the correct practices and you improve your laboratory skills.

• You learn how to read and use the debugging analysis tools and how to efficiently evaluate the laboratory results, how to react and fix the problems as pro engineers do.

• You save time because you can test with multiple configurations and with different components in shorter time. You get your proof-of-concept prototype earlier.

• Professional engineers will feel at home with all the tools provided, they will go to the market faster with their new product!

• It is fast, robotic and fun.

API for Developers, Automate Your Lab

To do: Available boards, sensors and actuators.

Project TO DO List (The Hacker Way)

Github Repository