Asteroid Bennu – mapping
This image shows sample site Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. The image is overlaid with a graphic of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to illustrate the scale of…
acurite weather station
It’s been over a week now since the new weather station (Acurite Pro model 06004) went operational in the back gardens. There have been signal dropouts and there has been…
Pi Projects update
The weatherpi (3B model) data logger for the Acurite Pro Weather Station has been operational now for over 5 days straight, with the weather sensor out in the back vegetable…
pi pi everywhere a pi
We recently did an inventory of all of the Raspberry Pi computers we had kicking about: 1x pi1b 2014ish 1 core 700 MHz, 512MB, 2xUSB2, ethernet, hdmi 1x pi2b 2016ish…
Early Christmas
After many months of being without a weather station, we finally found one that should work for us. This is an Acurite Pro (model number yet to be determined). It…
Linux Fedora 30 to 31 upgrades
The latest linux fedora distribution came out a few days ago.. and for once I actually missed the event. So starting yesterday, I started the twice a year process of…
Fedora 30 Linux is out
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fedora-30-linux-rolls-out/ It’s here! And not delayed as much as previous releases. Ran over the procedure to upgrade from fedora 29 linux to 30 on the command line as most of…
Spring has sprung
You know spring has sprung when you plant peas and clean out eavestroughs… well at least the planting peas part. Seeds from 2013, 2015 and 2017? or 2018? were planted…
Another Imac Transplant
Just completed a second Spinning hard drive (Seagate 500GB 7200rpm) to Solid State Drive transplant in an older Imac. This time it was a 21.5″ mid2011 Imac, and it was…
windows 10 bah!
I installed this 120GB SSD in place of the older larger spinning harddrive in my primary laptop workstation some time ago. 120GB is a little tight for space so I…
supersid operational
Our supersid system has been operating at the edge of the property for 3 years now, mainly to get as faraway from any house generated RFI as we can. Too…
Davis Vantage Vue Weather Station repair
Update: 12 days later the new CR123 lithium battery died as well. No data is logged during the night period, and even if it is really cloudy in the day…
linux kernel v5
The linux kernel v5 has arrived. This morning during a routine update check, there it was: Linux version 5.0.3-200.fc29.x86_64 According the Linus, there is nothing particular special about moving major…