Once again this year, Professor Holmen has challenged the ME/EE seniors at UVM to design a robust low-cost instrument package that can be used from a drone to monitor real-world emissions of biogases, with 1Hz sampling frequency, and send the data in real-time to the drone operator. Team 12 started by reviewing documents from prior work, with additional mentoring from two of last year's Team 24 students (Trevor and Jack). This year's team has one EE and 3 ME seniors, with creative design ideas and diverse perspectives on the problem. We are using the same low-cost sensors from Figaro, Senseair, BME and Alphasense, but a completely different design emerged by the end of Winter Break 2020 (see drawing). Looking forward to being able to actually get Team 12 into the lab for calibrations by the end of February 2021.
