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Loom is an ongoing multidisciplinary collaboration of the OPEnS Lab with a team of 20+ Computer Science and Electrical Engineering students to create a fully open source, modular, user friendly, sensor/actuator Arduino library and ecosystem. The project enables environmental research and conservation communities to overcome significant technical hurdles for creating new environmental, agricultural, and ecological instrumentation to measure, monitor, automate, and understand our world.
- Introduction
- Objectives
- Features
- Installing Arduino and Loom
- Quick Start
- Common Pin Allocations
- Hardware Support
- Documentation
- Contributing
- Versioning
- Resources
- License
- Design a "plug and play" sensor/actuator system
- Simple enough for K-12 students and non-technical users to use
- Extensible and programmable enough for engineers to customize
- Create a wide variety of applications by simply connecting modular components
- Make the system wireless, low-power, low latency
- Configure all sensors and actuators on a wireless network using an intuitive graphical user interface
- Interact with data and control signals on a network in realtime
- Make data transmitted from local and remote locations available instantly from anywhere around the world
Loom's feature rich ecosystem provides automation and management of many device sub-systems, so you can spend more time designing functionality and less time troubleshooting individual features. Some of Loom's core features include:
- Run time/dynamic configuration with JSON allows on-the-fly or in-the-field changes to your device
- Robust data logging to a variety of platforms including on board SD, OLED and google sheets
- Manage a network of devices allowing for coverage of more area
- Never miss a measurement by adding real time reactivity with interrupts
- Ensure your devices survive all season and never waste an amp with our suite of low power modes and sleep solutions
Find a comprehensive list and deeper dives into individual features here
Installing Arduino and Loom Quick Setup
Installing Arduino and Loom Manual Setup
Wiki for general documentation not on GitHub or in Doxygen document
Doxygen generated documentation Version 1 for more verbose documentation that is designed for developers
Doxygen generated documentation Version 2 for more user-friendly documenation that is designed for end-users
Note: The documentation does not currently update automatically, if would want to be sure you have the most up to date version of the documentation, you can run Doxygen to manually generate a local copy of the documentation. See the Doxygen website on how to Install Doxygen and Doxygen Usage.
Once installed, the run doxygen Doxyfile from the command line (from Loom directory) to generate the documentation. To view, open the Loom/html/index.html file in a browser.
Is there hardware support or other feature you would like to add to Loom? Follow our Guide to contributing to Loom
Loom aims to follow Semantic Versioning
- Project Page for Loom on OPEnS lab website
- GitHub Organization for all OPEnS Lab projects
- Loomify An npm package to drive the backend Loom Tag Format parsing and Loom Library github interactions.
- Loom Configurator A WebApp designed for designing and exporting loom configurations
- Loom-Network Arduino networking library designed for use with any wireless radio
- Loom-Auxilliary General Loom and lab non-code files
- Max-Loom2 MaxMSP interfaces for Loom interactivity
- OPEnS_RTC A modified arduino library for with support for a variety of RTCs
- WiFi201 Upgraded WiFi library for the Arduino WiFi Shield 101 and MKR1000 board
- SSLClient Arduino library to add SSL functionality to any Client class
- EthernetLarge Ethernet Library for Arduino, modified to support larger buffers for SSLClient
Loom is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0