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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, every unit on one common time, so that each leg, the trunk and the head can be laid side by side, step by step. Live on the vet's phone wherever the radio reaches, and the whole record afterwards. To replace the cheap sensor sets sold today: at their price or below if it can be, better in any case.
→ Project-NIC/NIC-Strelka — beta 0.1: the design on paper, the firmware written and untried, nothing built yet
The parts — the unit, the master, the phone's application, the box
| part | what it is |
|---|---|
| Belka | the unit fastened on the animal; every unit is the same board |
| Vožak | a Belka in the master's role, set by its button: it sends the beacon, gathers the others and talks to the phone |
| Pušinka | the application on the vet's phone, written by its users |
| Budka | the box a Belka lives in: the sealed case, its windows for the light and the button, its fastening |
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! ★
