Blog — Location beacon

Work on location beacon for industrial harsh environment is progressing very well. With metal parts delivered. I could start to test different materials for additive manufacturing process. I focus only on materials, which can be used long term outdoors under harsh Australian conditions. Ambient temperatures reaching over 60°C. Below picture is showing 68°C in lovely November temperature in Brisbane, Australia. This would be because of the black plastic housing of the temperature meter as Bosch BME280 in white housing was reporting 56°C. As we do have temperature sensor available on the location beacon. Monitoring the temperature inside of the housing...