MICA

From BioInstrumentation Lab

The MICA (Measurement, Instrumentation, Control, and Automation) Project is a research and development project aimed at producing a line of sensors and generators, linked together wirelessly and controlled from a laptop. The system is intended to be a high level, minimal configuration system that is both simple to use and extend, while powerful and accurate enough for laboratory research.

The MICA Philosophy

The MICA Hardware

Each MICA cube contains a battery, a control module, and a sensor/generator specific module. The control module consists of a STMicro STM32F10 processor (72 MHz 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 core), a Chipcon CC2500 2.4GHz radio module, PCB antenna and matching network, and a 64x64 dot blue organic-LED (OLED) display screen. The sensor/generator module is a dedicated PCB specific to the type of sensor used in the cube. A prototype cube, including control module and cube housing (produced with stereolithography), is shown in the image at right.