Create your Experiment with Eddie
Bored Owl’s Eddie Data Hub helps scientists who want to reduce the time to create experimental setups. Increasing the time they have available to optimise their setup and results.
Create your experiment your way!
Our Eddie Data Hub is a complete engineered solution for creative experimentation. It includes all the hardware and software for fast, real-time data analysis and control.
Simply connect, then collect data.
You don't need programming skills or hardware expertise to use our Eddie Data Hub, we’ve done the hard work under the hood so its easy for you to interface with Eddie!
Use your data, your way!
View your data as its collected on a dashboard on your laptop. We can also include communications to suit your needs, to get your data where you need it, to the cloud or a remote server.
Contact Bored Owl for further information.
Bored Owl provides friendly, knowledgeable, Australian-based support and collaboration for your lab.
In our experience...
One of the biggest challenges for scientists in creating new measurement setups is that it takes too long to reach the point where data collection and tweaking the system to improve data collection and control begins.
Scientists spend most of their time waiting for expert time to help build a system or trying an ad-hoc build themselves rather than spending their time testing, iterating, and improving.
Our Approach to this Challenge…
Imagine if you had MORE time to improve data collection and control because you had the option of:
⚙️ Starting with a working base system - our Eddie Data Hub kit
🔧 Add sensors and any controls needed
🧪 Test straight away and start collecting data quickly
🔁 Then improve data collection and control based on what actually happens!
With Eddie, scientists can build something that works for data collection and control quickly and easily.
With Eddie, scientists can understand why it works (or doesn’t) and improve data collection and control and own the result! Take the lead on data collection and control in your lab. Imagine if you spent your project funds and time on this alone….where would you get with your system….would you innovate faster, better, be more impactful!
With Eddie, scientists can substantially reduce the overheads ($$$, time, expertise) which normally accompany creating a data collection system.
The Basics of the Eddie Data Hub
The data collection solution designed for Scientists, by Scientists and Engineers.
Eddie can help you experiment and get data faster today!
Eddie Data Hub — Design Basics:
The Eddie Data Hub reduces time, cost, and hassle for lab or field measurement setups, letting scientists quickly collect and analyze sensor data. Modular, ready-built, and easy to customize, it offers flexible, scalable, and cost-effective DAQ and control. Reconfigurable for new applications, it saves hardware, software, and user time.
What's included with the Eddie Data Hub:
List DAQ/control needs for lab and field—components Eddie Data Hub can include:
Sensor connections for data collection and control
Power for components
Local data storage
Data upload to cloud or remote server
View data as its collected on a dashboard on your laptop
Competitive Advantages of the Eddie Data Hub:
Eddie lets you collect reliable measurement data quickly and affordably without experts or fragile lab gear. Cost-effective and flexible, Eddie provides complete hardware, software, and communications so non-experts can connect sensors, start collecting, and access data without programming or hardware skills. Australian-based support from Bored Owl is available.
Modular by design, Eddie can be reconfigured—add I/O cards, computer cards, or probes to expand capabilities with minimal cost and effort. Bored Owl continually adds cards and probes; if you need a specific configuration, contact us and we’ll build it.
See our case studies for examples of how Eddie can be used for measurement and control. Our first case study is an environmental chamber. We’re currently on the lookout for Beta testers of Eddie Micro and Eddie 2-slot units, contact us to express interest today!
Eddie Options - Micro Eddie or Multi-slot Eddie
Getting Technical:
Bored Owl’s Eddie Data Hub, in plain terms, is an embedded computer system. It lets you analyse data and control equipment right where the data is collected. That means you can quickly change how a process or machine runs based on real‑time data.
Eddie Data Hub makes it easy and fast to build an online data analysis and control system for your measurement application. Bring your sensors and tell us your measurement application and sensor needs; we’ll recommend the Eddie Data Hub and probe modules required.
Eddie is for non-experts. We made the hardware and firmware, so the interface is easy. Plug in sensors and use them without technical skills. You don’t need need programming skills or hardware expertise to use our Eddie Data Hub.
Eddie Modules to choose from:
Eddie-Micro Hub is Bored Owl’s smallest data hub which can connect to your sensors through Eddie Probes and which you can connect to your laptop or desktop through a usb port.
Multi-slot Eddie Hub Devices:
2-slot Eddie version can include: power supply input, CPU card, I/O card (eg serial card).
4-slot Eddie version can include: power supply card with ethernet port, CPU card, I/O card (eg serial card), digital I/O card, possible additional CPU cards.
Eddie also has probes, pods and peas to choose from.
Eddie probe, pod and pea modules help make sensor connections simple.
A features comparison for the Eddie modules including definitions of probes, pods and peas is shown in the following figure.
Eddie Modules - Features and Definitions
Eddie Product Breakdown
Eddie Pack/Hub Comparison Table
Eddie Connections Overview
Customer Discovery Form for Eddie Data Hub:
Help us learn more about your needs for scientific data collection from sensor connection to data access from experiments or measurements.
Schedule a time with us
Attend one of our Meet Eddie sessions or request a one-on-one appointment with Bored Owl to discuss your requirements and find out more info.
Book a Meet Eddie session on Bored Owl’s calendly calendar OR/
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Complete the request for further info form above.
Who we are
We founded Bored Owl with hands-on experience in science, engineering, and industry. We know the pressure to get measurements and data quickly. We’ll help customize an Eddie Data Hub to your needs and support you however you prefer. Our goal is a user-friendly tool that lets non-experts collect data and innovate in the lab or field.
For more background on the Bored Owl team you are welcome to visit our website.
Patricia Giang - Prototyping and Sales for Bored Owl (and Founder/Director)
Jonathan Masters - Hardware and Software designer for Bored Owl (and Founder/Director)
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