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Project: Battery-Powered Sensor Node

Everything together.

Wake from a timer, power the sensor, read it with the ADC, apply a filter, send the value through a radio with a checksum, then power down and sleep.

Measure average current to estimate battery life, add a low-battery check, and protect the watchdog and reset path. This single project uses most of the course.