/HW-Designs

MCCI's open-source hardware designs for Catena projects.

HW-Designs

This repository contains hardware information about MCCI's open-source hardware designs for Catena LoRaWAN projects.

Software can be found starting here: https://github.com/mcci-catena/Catena-Sketches.

Hardware Documents

All schematics are prepared with KiCad, an open-source hardware design package that is freely available.

Feather Wings

Directory or file Contents
Boards/Catena-4450/ Catena 4450 wing schematic and PCB layout Drawing. Also contains Catena 4450 DIY Kit Assembly instructions.
Boards/Catena-4460/ Catena 4460 wing schematic and PCB layout Drawing.
Boards/Catena-4470/ Catena 4470 wing schematic and PCB layout Drawing.

Stand-alone Boards

Directory or file Contents
Boards/Catena-4610/ Catena 4610 schematic, Pinout Drawing and User manual.
Boards/Catena-4611_4612/ Catena 4611/4612 schematic, Pinout Drawing, PCB Layout Drawing and User manual.
Boards/Catena-4617/ Catena 4617 schematic, Pinout Drawing, PCB Layout Drawing and User manual.
Boards/Catena-4618/ Catena 4618 schematic, Pinout Drawing, PCB Layout Drawing and User manual.
Boards/Catena-4630/ Catena 4630 schematic and Model 4635 PMS7003 Adapter Board schematic.
Boards/Catena-4710/ Catena 4710 schematic, Pinout Drawing, PCB Layout Drawing, and overview.
Boards/Catena-4801/ Catena 4801 schematic and manual.
Boards/Catena-4802/ Catena 4802 schematic, Pinout Drawing, PCB Layout Drawing.

Other documents

Directory or file Contents
Boards/lib/ the library of common shapes
doc/hualian-sensors.xlsx the project planning document - BOMs, pricing, planning information.
doc/hualian-garden.mm the FreeMind mind-map used for planning the project. Very useful for reference.
Boards/pond-soil-proto/ the generic Catena 4410, used as a base design for the other sensor nodes. Integrated lux/temperature/pressure/humidity; external I2C, Dallas Semi OneWire, and specialized two-wire interface. In the end, all hardware was identical and based on this.

Older boards and reference material

Directory or file Contents
Boards/Catena-4410/Catena-4410-greenhouse/ the greenhouse sensor: integrated lux/temperature/pressure/humidity, plus external soil temperature/humidity
Boards/Catena-4410/Catena-4410-mushroom/ the mushroom-house sensor: integrated lux/temperature/pressure/humidity.
Boards/Catena-4410/Catena-4410-seaweed/ the seaweed-house sensor: integrated lux/temperature/pressure/humidity, plus external water temperature.
Boards/radio-feather-proto/ AKA the Catena 4420; this design combines an Adafruit Feather M0 BTLE with a separate Feather RadioWing to form a map-the-things node. Code is on branch MCCI-Catena here
Boards/Catena-4551/ [Catena 4551](#Catena 4551) schematic,PCB Layout Drawing, Pinout Drawing, DIY Kit assembly and other related documents.
Boards/solar-panel-0w5-usb/ Solar panel design for charging the LiPo batteries.

Gallery

Catena 4450

Image of Catena 4450 wing Image of Assembled Catena 4450

Catena 4460

Image of Catena 4460 wing

Catena 4470

Image of Catena 4470 wing Image of Assembled Catena 4470

Catena 4610

Image of Catena 4610

Catena 4611/4612

Image of Catena 4612

Catena 4618

Image of Catena 4618

Catena 4630

Image of Catena 4630

Catena 4710

Image of Catena 4710

Catena 4801

Image of Catena 4801

Catena 4802

Image of Catena 4802 Image of Catena 4802

Retired Boards

Catena 4410

Image of Catena 4410

Catena 4551

Image of Catena 4551

(Note: this board is not in production.)

Catena 4617

Image of Catena 4617

(Note: this board is not in production.)