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📡 Field Instrumentation: Data Loggers and Sensor Calibration for Apiaries

Drift a hive sensor away from its true reading and dial in a calibration offset while watching a live 3D data-logger trace correct itself in real time.

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A 3D hive fitted with a data logger and three field sensors — temperature, humidity, and a weighing platform — where you can introduce sensor drift and correct it with a calibration offset while watching a live scrolling graph compare true, raw, and calibrated readings.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Every field sensor develops bias over time. The graph plots the physically true diurnal signal against an uncalibrated raw reading and a corrected trace, showing exactly how a calibration offset collapses residual error back toward zero.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a sensor, dial in a drift amount, then adjust the calibration correction (or hit auto-calibrate) until the amber calibrated line lines up with the blue true line. Change the logger's sample interval to see how often the LED blinks and the graph updates.

💡 Did You Know?

Apiary researchers typically re-zero hive scales each season with a known reference mass, since thermal expansion in load-cell strain gauges alone can shift readings by hundreds of grams between winter and summer.

⚙ Under the hood

Drift a hive sensor away from its true reading and dial in a calibration offset while watching a live 3D data-logger trace correct itself in real time.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install