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WII5Firmware

Purpose

Firmware for an autonomous WII5 wave-measurement buoy on a custom ATmega2560 v2 board. Reads wave motion from a Sparton AHRS, samples GPS and battery, and reports over Iridium SBD. Runs a mode dispatcher (Capture, Position, Sleep, Manual/Self Test, Low Battery) coordinated by WII5Controller.

Type

C++ Arduino sketch for AVR (arduino-cli, not PlatformIO). #embedded #firmware #iot

Dependencies

  • External: Sparton AHRS-M1/M2, Iridium 9602/9603 SBD, u-blox NEO-6M/7M, DS18B20, TinyGPSPlus, IridiumSBD, RTClib, TimeLib, OneWire, DallasTemperature, SDBlock, RadioHead, LowPower, AvgStd, CRC32, MemoryFree, PushButton, elapsedMillis

Notable

Apache-2.0 licensed. Lineage explicitly described as "WII5 = WII3 WDT + WII1 Buoy Combined". Build scripts in tools/ are env-var parameterised; copy to *.local.sh for local defaults. LED blink-pattern table in README is field-diagnostic protocol — preserve meanings. Field deployments tracked in DEPLOYMENTS.md.