Scuba Pi #1

The plan for the first ScubaPi involved a Raspberry Pi, an LCD display, a Pi camera, and the Adafruit 10 degree of freedom sensor (10DOF).

LCD Display:  Adafruit RGB Positive 16×2 LCD+Keypad kit

 

Raspberry Pi with Adafruit RGB LCD display

Raspberry Pi with Adafruit RGB LCD display

 

10DOF:  Adafruit 10-DOF IMU Breakout – L3GD20H + LSM303 + BMP180

Testing the Raspberry Pi with Adafruit 10-DOF IMU

Testing the Raspberry Pi with Adafruit 10-DOF IMU

Camera:   5MP Raspberry Pi Camera board

Raspberry Pi camera module attached to Pi with LCD display

Raspberry Pi camera module attached to Pi with LCD display

 

Unfortunately, the combination of devices did not play well.  The LCD display seemed like a better way to display the various data from the 10-DOF IMU (inertial measurement unit; acceleration, gyro, magnetometer), but it was not to be.   Before I shelved this design, I checked the sizing in the underwater housings I had available.  Unfortunately, the LCD was too big to display in my camera housing and I didn’t have the Sense Hat when I first started this.

 

So, what happened?   The Scuba Pi #1 is shelved for now.   ScubaPi2 went a simpler route and then there is the ScubaPi3 with the SenseHat.

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