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The storage, transport and viewer stack for small devices — a crash-safe log format, optional compression and encryption, the bridges in and out, exporters for the seismic and geomagnetic networks, and a viewer. Closed at v1.2 — the final version.
The modules — eight
| module | what it is |
|---|---|
| NIC-MLA | Matroshka Logging Archive — the base log format, one crash-safe file |
| NIC-DMD | Delta Markov Duda — optional compression |
| NIC-KSF | Kolmogorov Shannon Feistel — optional encryption |
| NIC-GLUE-IN | write data into an MLA log |
| NIC-GLUE-OUT | read and export an MLA log — CSV, SQLite, … |
| NIC-MSEED | an MLA log → miniSEED (ObsPy / SeisComP / FDSN) |
| NIC-IAGA | an MLA log → IAGA-2002 (INTERMAGNET / SuperMAG) |
| NIC-VDE | Volkov Data Ecosystem — browse and export MLA logs |
One self-contained measuring station for the solid Earth, the atmosphere and the ionosphere — an enclosure with the head, the clock and the cards, and whatever units a site needs, all on one clocked bus. Swap the units and it is a different instrument on the same bus and the same code. Version 0.2 — a design-stage concept: every board described to the part, nothing built yet. Its READMEs read in English, Czech and Russian.
The enclosure — the head, the clock, the power, the cards, the transport
| part | what it is | bus · type |
|---|---|---|
| Mayak | the head — datalogger and uplink (Wi-Fi, a modem, BLE), the archive on two microSD cards | NodBus 1 |
| Kronos | the timekeeper — a GNSS-disciplined TCXO, the network clock and the second to every card | — |
| ↳ Polaris | Kronos's GNSS front, bought — a time-only receiver and antenna on a carrier | — |
| Hermes | the BMS/MPPT converter — reads the bought pack and charger for the head | — |
| Bifrost | the NodBus master — four point-to-point spurs, copper to 500 m, glass beyond | NodBus 2 |
| ↳ Argus | the same card as the NodBus mini master — four segments for the small units | NodBus 3 |
| Galvani | the transport layer — eleven boards; anything that leaves the enclosure crosses one | — |
| Mimir | mini-Heimdall — the head, the clock, two cards, Palatine and Hermes on one PCB | — |
| Proteus | the smallest whole station head, one PCB in a 1-DIN slot — for a vehicle or a one-unit site | — |
The units — what the station measures
| unit | what it measures | bus · type |
|---|---|---|
| Quake | ground motion, local events and tilt | NodBus 5 |
| Tesla | lightning — VLF sferics, every impulse timed on the network clock | NodBus 7 |
| ↳ Pip | longwave carriers — the D-region, and longwave time; Tesla's board | NodBus 12 |
| ↳ Steinmetz | faults on power lines, from a vehicle or a site; Tesla's board | NodBus 13 |
| Marconi | the HF ionosphere — transmitter levels 0,5–16 MHz, a passive ionogram | NodBus 4 |
| Sputnik | GNSS — total electron content, and the station's time when fitted | NodBus 8 |
| Palatine | the meteo base — four ModBus arms for the bought weather set and the house modules | NodBus 6 |
| ↳ Chinook | air quality — bought units on Palatine's arms | — |
| Quark | radiation — two builds, by tubes and by scintillation | — |
| ↳ Quark-Tubes | every tube counted on one board — GM tubes, Helion and Gadolin for neutrons | mini 2 |
| ↳ Photon | γ / X-ray by scintillation, counts and energy | NodBus 9 |
| ↳ Positron | beta, both signs, with Neutron's channel on the same board | NodBus 11 |
| Gauss | the slow geomagnetic field — a sealed magnetometer sonde | mini 1 |
| Pascal | a tsunami gauge on the sea floor | mini 3 |
| Pluvius | precipitation, weighed | ModBus 5 |
| Ceres | soil moisture and temperature, through glass | ModBus 6 |
| ↳ Sakura | leaf wetness — Ceres's board in the canopy | ModBus 7 |
| Babel | any sensor → Modbus RTU, converted at the sensor | ModBus 4 |
The station as a whole, and the software
| part | what it is |
|---|---|
| Atlantis | the water build — Pascal and Gauss off shore; the long deep run is shelved |
| Daedalus | building the station — mast, earthing, enclosure, vault, cables |
| Gaia | the siting atlas — where the stations go across the planet |
| HMC | Heimdall Matryoshka Container — the station's archive, from the card to the server |
| HCC | Heimdall Compression Codec — lossless, column by column; a Python reference with its tests |
| Exporters | the archive in the world's formats — miniSEED, IAGA-2002, RINEX, BUFR, CSV, SQL, … |
| Server | the files as the archive of record, a catalogue over them, and the viewer |
| Handset | the commissioning app — the phone at the open enclosure, over BLE |
The power side — NIC-FPLG, a crankshaft-free two-stroke linear engine: two pistons on one rod with a tubular linear generator at its centre, running at mechanical resonance rather than at a controlled speed. ~3 kW mechanical, 1–1,5 kW electrical; twinned in anti-phase it cancels ~88 % of its own vibration.
The motion of an animal, for a veterinary examination — small units on the legs, the trunk and the head of a dog, a horse or a cow record how it moves, all on one common time, so that the legs, the trunk and the head can be laid side by side, step by step. Live on a phone or a computer, the whole record afterwards. To replace the cheap sensor sets sold today: at their price or below, and better in any case. Only the motion, not where the animal goes; everything on the animal, no camera, no walkway.
The live view at 50, 100 or 200 Hz, as quaternions the Belka computes from its accelerometer's and gyroscope's values; the card takes the raw data at the full sampling rate. Vibration, as an experiment: since the hardware allows it, we want to try higher sampling too, up to the sensor's maximum, for experimental measurements of vibration on machines and the like.
→ Project-NIC/NIC-Strelka — the design being redone from the ground up, nothing built yet; the next version 0.5
The parts — the unit, the commander, the box, the application
| part | what it is |
|---|---|
| Belka | the unit on the animal, 1 to 32 in a set |
| Povodok | the set's commander: the Belka's board, the sensor and the card on it too, with Fanstel's WM02C20C combo in place of the BM20F — the nRF54LM20A with Nordic's nRF7002 Wi-Fi 6 at 2,4 and 5 GHz; it gives the set its common time, gathers the data and passes them to the phone or the computer, by USB or Wi-Fi |
| Budka | the box a unit lives in, chosen once the schematic is done |
| Pušinka | the application on the phone or the computer; in time a base for it should be made, perhaps whole applications |
Inside a Belka — the modules and the parts
- Fanstel's BM20F module: Nordic's nRF54LM20A processor and radio, Bluetooth LE and the set's own radio at 2,4 GHz, an antenna on the board
- TDK's ICM-42686-P motion sensor: an accelerometer of ±32 g and a gyroscope of ±4 000 °/s
- a microSD card in a locking slot, for the whole record
- a LiFePO4 cell, LTOPOW's LFP103042, 3,2 V, 720 mAh
- TI's BQ25170 charger and ADI's MAX17262H fuel gauge
- two TI TLV75530 regulators at 3,0 V
- a four-pin magnetic contact for the charge and USB, its inlet guarded
- two TI DRV5032 Hall switches: the unit is worked by a magnet held to it instead of buttons, so that the box stays watertight
- a two-colour LED
A neural suit — 128 to 256 electrodes and 16 to 64 motion sensors on a suit put together from pieces: a sleeve, a trouser leg, the torso, a headband. The muscles' own signals and the body's motion go to a computer in the backpack, a Radxa ROCK 5T with its own NPU or up to two Hailo-10H AI accelerators, and the whole body becomes the controller for a computer or a game. Coming soon™. Well — not that soon.
→ Project-NIC/NIC-Crazy_Ivan — beta 0.3: the design on paper, the analog side too, nothing built yet
The parts — the suit, the head, the family in the backpack, the assistants
| part | what it is |
|---|---|
| Rubaška | the shirt: the suit itself, the pieces with their sensing modules, the Rebjata |
| Nataša | the unit in the headband: headphones, two microphones, vibration and buttons |
| Mamka | mum, the base board: the clock for the whole suit, the sound bridge, the line drivers and the suit's power |
| Baťa | dad, the computer in the backpack: a Radxa ROCK 5T, with Umnica, the Hailo-10H, or its own NPU alone |
| Terem | the daughters' chamber: the board in the ROCK 5T's two M.2 slots, its two Hailo-10H with a supply each |
| Porjadok | order: what holds for every module, the processor, the firmware and the links |
| Babuška | grandma: the battery and its BMS, the hard-shell backpack |
| Soňa | assistant for the deaf: listens all the time and tells by vibration what is happening around |
| Míša | assistant, the watchdog: a radar and ultrasound watch for obstacles and warn through the headphones and the headband |
| Taťána | assistant: types what you dictate and reads text aloud, books included |
| Nikita | assistant: the beat of the music as vibration |
| Pomoščnik | assistant, the helper: looks at a part, reads its marking and finds it, with the glasses and the cameras |
NIC is for people who:
- Use simple and proven principles
- Are willing to test and create
- Work with standardized hardware and environments
- Don't need bloated solutions to prove they know what they're doing
NIC is a revolutionary movement of all comrades who are fed up with today's overpriced and unnecessarily complex world.
"Strength lies in simplicity."
★ Viva la résistance! ★
