Data Receiving Through Radio Connection - Erinn #6

Before our first USV testing, we came together as a whole group to wrap up certain areas of development. This was our first time physically working alongside some of the students from different years and courses. 

After successfully connecting the XinaBox GPS to Ubidots, Jason teamed me up with 2nd year Internet of Things students, Adam and Dominick, to send a temperature value from MicroBitA to MicroBitB and C using radio connection. The idea of this connection is to eventually send current and voltage values from the USV to Ubidots for monitoring and evaluation. 

Adam and Dominick had previous experience using radio connections and therefore sending the values from one MicroBit to another were rather easy to set up. Adam and Dominick needed to display the received values on the console whereas I needed to push these values to Ubidots and display them on the dashboard. We decided to send 4 different values instead of just temperature to make the results easier to read. 

I set up a variable for the receiving data and used that variable to send the data to Ubidots. On Ubidots, I created four gauges to display the values on my dashboard. While doing this, I also explained to Adam and Dominick how XinaBox works, how to set up the MakeCode extensions, and how to send values to Ubidots as they had never used it before.









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