Build a DIY Mars Probe using AWS Greengrass IoT v2 with a Raspberry Pi | ACG Projects

Great news! Your scrappy space start-up has won a lucrative contract to populate Mars with hundreds of sensors to collect environmental and visual data! The not so great news … most of the budget will be spent on actually getting the collection devices to the surface of Mars. You’re the lucky engineer tasked with building the sensors on the cheap!
Join ACG Principal Community Training Architect Scott Pletcher as he harnesses the portable power of a Raspberry Pi with AWS to create a remote sensor and camera. You’ll learn how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a flexible and powerful Internet-of-Things device, ultimately creating an off-grid taskable data and image collection device.
If you don’t have a Raspberry Pi, you can still follow along with this project! In the first half of the video Scott walks through how to set up a T4g EC2 instance as an AWS Greengrass Version 2 core device to send and receive messages. In the second half, we’ll work with a Raspberry Pi Zero W and assemble a solar powered off-grid data collection station.
By taking this project you’ll learn:
- How to prepare, install, and configure AWS Greengrass Version 2 on a Raspberry Pi (or an AWS EC2 T4g instance, if you don’t have a Pi)
- How to receive data and issue commands to a Raspberry Pi via AWS Greengrass V2, simulating how you might leverage a fleet of IoT devices
Timestamps:
0:00 What we’ll cover in this ACG Project
1:38 The setup for this project
3:03 The architecture for this project
4:29 Completing this project using a t4g.nano Amazon EC2 instance
17:38 Completing this project using a Raspberry Pi Zero W
27:15 The hardware setup for this project (hardware list: ​​github.com/ACloudGuru-Resourc...)
30:24 Lessons learned from completing this project
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Check out Scott's companion blog posts on Code Project!
Part 1: www.codeproject.com/Articles/...
Part 2: www.codeproject.com/Articles/...
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Video resources:
- Github repo for this project: github.com/ACloudGuru-Resourc...
- Raspberry Pi Zero W: www.raspberrypi.org/products/...
- AWS Greengrass: aws.amazon.com/greengrass/
- What’s new in AWS IoT Greengrass Version 2: docs.aws.amazon.com/greengras...
- Amazon EC2 T4g instances: aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-t...
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[@Niko-nf6yt]

I'm a 2nd yr Information technology student from the Philippines and I am interested in Cloud computing. Unfortunately we don't have it in our curriculum but I just want to say thank you for the people in this channel who makes this kinds of videos! It is very helpful! :)

[@rorycawley]

Amazing project, incredible knowledge - please do more of these type of IoT projects!

[@rickharold7884]

Super awesome. Love it. Thx for digging in. Any other suggestions for greengrass alternatives?

[@rickharold7884]

Scott Pletcher cool thx

[@marcusandrepereiraoliveira8839]

I setup succesfully GG V1 with an ESP32 (and AWS freertos) connecting to it, sending and receiving topics, fine. But I can't do the same in GG V2. The freertos GG discovery fails, due an TLS authentication (handshake) error. Does anyone got frrertos running wih GG V2? By the way, nice video. A bit fast to look the steps, here, but the blog posts are amazing.