Extreme low power in an extreme location
Follow the adventures of engineers Darren Wenn of Microchip Technology and Chris McAneny of Future Electronics as they prepare for and climb Africa’s famous Mt. Kilimanjaro. Along with Microchip intern Tim Moffat they’ll share their insights about designing for extreme conditions as they build a device using Microchip’s eXtreme Low Power PIC microcontrollers that they’ll use on their climb to track their location via GPS and take measurements along the way.
Chris summits Kilimanjaro: Part I
Chris McAneny
11/11/2010 8:38 AM EST
Intrepid engineer Chris McAneny describes his climb to the top
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ReneCardenas
Congratulations Chris, in reading your description of your troubles you shared a great story of ...
Engineers analyze Mt Kilimanjaro climb data
Tim Moffat
11/1/2010 7:17 AM EDT
Engineers study the altitude and temperature data logged during the climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro
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ReneCardenas
Is there a summary of your findings from this experience?
Altitude struggles, GPS errors nearing the Summit
Darren Wenn
10/14/2010 6:48 PM EDT
Darren struggles with altitude and GPS errors as he nears the Summit
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DWenn
Good points on the GPS. As I said I think it was struggling because we only gave it 45 seconds to ...
Engineer Chris McAneny begins his trek
Chris McAneny
10/6/2010 8:43 AM EDT
Darren Wenn of Microchip Technology and Chris McAneny of Future Electronics begin their trek up Africa’s famous Mt. Kilimanjaro
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Chris McAneny
Hi Graham ,its never too late to start! There are so many fantastic things out there to challenge us ...
Darren Wenn
10/1/2010 4:12 PM EDT
Well, this is it, training is over, time to put up or shut up
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Chris’ big day arrives: heading to Africa
Chris McAneny
9/28/2010 2:51 PM EDT
The flight to Kenya went smoothly, but an hour before departure of the connecting Kili flight, we were told the flight had closed!
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Chris McAneny
Hi Neo 1 , If you search the page you can find the fully story why I am doing this trek but in ...
Darren heads for the mighty mountain
Darren Wenn
9/24/2010 1:18 PM EDT
Last-minute improvements to the logger and general fretfulness before embarking for Tanzania (sorry, no PowerPoint slides).
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DWenn
Hi Karen, Well, the weather conditions can be wuite variable. We have to travel through a rainforest ...
Tim talks about the logger software
Tim Moffat
9/23/2010 8:33 PM EDT
Engineer Tim Moffat takes you step by step through what it took to build the logger for the expedition.
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karen.field
Did you establish a set of specs? If so, can you publish them in the blog?
Darren takes a detour to Arizona
Darren Wenn
9/17/2010 1:58 PM EDT
Darren decides to slack off at the MASTERs Conference instead of going for a salubrious training run in the 100+° (40+°C) Arizona summer sun.
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Tim Moffat
The PSU on the device is based around the MCP1640 when running off batteries. When running off USB ...
Chris McAneny
9/9/2010 8:47 PM EDT
I have read books on Kili and spoken to people who have both succeeded and failed in reaching the "Summit of Africa." With training, what could possibly go wrong? During the hours and hours of walking/training I have put, in I have considered the above question.
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camelhiker
This is awesome guys! I wish you all the best on your hike. I look forward to following you blog ...