Circuit sculptor Mohit Bhoite has put collectively his first Lunar Lander-inspired creation of 2024, the compact Cumin — constructed round a Seeed Studio XIAO improvement board and monitoring environmental circumstances utilizing a Bosch Sensortec BME280 sensor.
“New yr, new lander,” Bhoite writes of his newest creation. “Meet Cumin! Cumin is a little bit lander constructed across the Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 dev board. It measures temperature, humidity, and strain utilizing a BME280 sensor and shows it on a 128×32 OLED. The entire thing is powered by a single 14250 lithium ion battery.”
Cumin is just the newest in a protracted line of circuit sculpture Bhoite has created, all of which use inflexible wire as each their frames and to hold electrical indicators. Earlier examples have displayed the temperature straight and in binary-coded decimal kind, performed host to a Particle Photon 2 improvement board previous to its official launch, and served as an egg timer — and have impressed others to take design cues from space-going vessels too, as with Peter Müller’s SMOLSAT 1.
Cumin takes a vertical method to the idea, standing pleased with the desk on legs ending in round toes — very like the actual Lunar Lander. Its physique places the compact OLED show in a vertical orientation, studying out the time and the present environmental circumstances — whereas nearly all of the elements, not together with a front-facing piezoelectric buzzer, are housed inside.
Extra data on the construct is offered on Bhoite’s Twitter submit, together with a schematic drawn in Adobe Illustrator. “One may use Fritzing to perform the identical,” Bhoite notes, “however I really feel like vector drawing software program offers you extra inventive freedom.
