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FreshFridge: Monitoring Community Fridge Capacity

Authors: Asha Bazil, Jenna Epstein, Kristin Chang, Celine Apollon INTRODUCTION Philadelphia residents are experiencing unprecedented levels of food insecurity. 17% of Philly’s population was considered food insecure in 2021,while in 2019 the City generated approximately 240,000 tons of food waste. On top of this, recent escalations in food costs mean that people are relying more […]

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Sending Serial Monitor Data to Google Firebase with an ESP8266-01

Overview: You’ll program the ESP8266-01 board to send data from your serial monitor to a Firebase Realtime data base. The highlevel steps are: Create a Firebase Realtime Database Wire your circuit Program your ESP8266 Connect your data stream to a web or mobile app Why Firebase? Sending sensed data to Firebase allows you to connect […]