For all three people in the world who are really interested (myself and my parents), the Catlin farm’s newly-established weather/sensor database is difficult to understand just by glancing at the 40 columns of numbers. So I made a dashboard in which to look at, in particular, the trifecta of agriculture: rain, temp, and sun for
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It’s been a year and a half since this computer broke, and it’s been a tedious, intermittent road to recovery. When it was first broken, the screen stopped displaying any information. The computer only worked, occasionally, on an external monitor in safe mode. I suspected a graphics card issue, with the Nvidia driver reporting no
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When I learned most of what I know about cuttings, it was in Hort 1001: Plant Propogation in a university greenhouse. In addition to being the nicest place on campus in the middle of winter, it was also a perfectly maintained facility. Alas, now I am on my own, and must make my own systems.
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You know I love to bake. Especially a nice crunchy graphics card! Nom nom. I was not sure if my graphics card was broken in such a way that baking would help, yet I’ve heard it often does, so I gave it 8 minutes at 385 F to see. The purpose of it is to
Over a year ago, my ASUS G75VW crashed, only working on an external monitor in safe mode. Since then, I’ve been trying to fix it, but in the process, I managed to make it much worse. Now I’m stuck with a motherboard that will turn on, but won’t connect to any monitors. No monitors, no
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I own one of the best gaming laptops you can buy. I have owned it for a year and played less than 10 hours of games on it. Ah well, such is life. But while I currently use the GPU power to run neural nets, it used to be I did play games. Indeed, I
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While cleaning to move, an old PS3Eye – a webcam for the PS3, was found. Turns out this little device has a 640*480 camera and 4-microphone array that have made it popular for DIY’ers for making motion trackers, virtual Alexa-style assitants, and so on with Raspberry Pi’s. It’s pretty much plug and play. I’ve got
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It can be difficult, as an absentee farmer, to really have a good idea of what is going on with everything that is being managed. Now true, my parents are about to retire and stay at the farm full-time, but I won’t be doing so myself any time soon. There’s also just something weird about
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Having spent quite a bit of time messing around with a Raspberry Pi, where it took hours just to get a few temperature probes running, it was refreshing to have a nice, made for consumer object like setting up the weather station: an AmbientWeather Osprey 2902. I chose this station because the company provides more
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My first Youtube video in 4K! Flying a high quality drone is wicked fun. It’s fast, responsive, and really quite easy to do. I got into drones for the photography, but now I can also see the allure of drone racing and hobbyist RC pilots -it’s just so fun to fly. I started flying drones
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