Base Unit / RF link board
These arrived on 14 November 2013 in a package, with the following instructions from Dr Steve Marple of Lancaster University.
Parcel two (small):
Contains delicate items which can be damaged by static electricity. Magnetometer electronics, battery lead, Raspberry Pi and SD card (fitted in the Pi). Avoid unnecessary handling and hold the circuit boards by their edges. The antenna on the Raspberry Pi should be bent back to vertical. The antenna on the magnetometer circuit board must be vertical when installed, which means it must lay flat in the plane of the circuit board.
I'll try to get some instructions to you on how to connect and install it in the next few days. I've not expanded the Raspberry Pi image - if you want to make a backup image you might want to do so before expanding it to fill the 8Gb card, if you don't I can regenerate the disk image here.
Base unit
The base unit is a raspberry pi computer with a SD card image based on the raspbian distro. There is a RF tranceiver unit connected to the raspberry pi's GPIO pins.
RF link board
These boards were included in the package, but will be housed in the pipe of the sensor unit, to provide RF connectivity which will enable data to be relayed from the sensor to the base unit.
