Day two of X-raying seasonal things brings us the bane of all tree decorators.
Category Archives: electronics
Weather
I’ve been playing around with a homebrew weather station again, I dusted off the code I’d had running on a spare Raspberry Pi and added a few features to it. It’s now logging temperature, humidity and air pressure. I plan to add some more external sensors as soon as the parts arrive from eBay. The …
X-Ray Monday
The X-Ray scanners I use to produce the images for this series of posts are mainly used for producing 3-D data, they are Micro-Tomography scanners, so they don’t produce a large field of view, but thy do provide high resolution. This means images like the one below can be a little hard to decipher if …
X-Ray Monday
Continuing the theme of X-Ray images on a Monday morning, here’s another. This is probably easy to guess at. If you look at the full size, you can see there is quite a lit going on in the device. More information under the cut.
VHF Radio Coverage
I’ve just discovered a nice tool for plotting radio transmission coverage. Here’s where I can expect to get a signal too from my home location. Yellow shows 0.50 μV signal level, Green is the 1.58 μV signal level This seems to match up quite well with contacts I’ve had on the two-meter band, but with …