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Category Archives: Amateur Science
Testing Paint for Solar Heating
An upcoming project has an enclosure for electronics that is exposed to sunlight. I wanted to see if silver or white color paint was better at reducing the solar heating in the enclosure. I picked 5 different spray paints to … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur Science, Astronomy, environmental monotoring
Tagged amateur science, paint, solar heating
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Air Quality Sensor
An air quality sensor (dust sensor) has been on my todo list for a while. There are a number of sensor modules on the market for the DIYer but all that I had seen seemed to not be suited for … Continue reading
IoT Rain Gauge
On thing that is missing from my weather station is automatic reporting of rain fall. I have a manually read CoCoRaHS rain gauge which is more accurate than say a tipping bucket gauge but I thought it would be nice … Continue reading
Posted in Alternate Energy, Amateur Science, Electronics, environmental monotoring, Nature, Software
Tagged Arduino, CoCoRaHS, ESP8266, internet of things, IoT, rain gauge, sensor, tipping bucket, weather station, WIFi
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Eclipse 2017
I was not up to driving over a 100 miles in hope of finding clear sky in the path of eclipse totality. So I decided to make the most of what could be observed at home where we had about … Continue reading
Fan Aspirated Temperature Sensor
The temperature sensor for my weather station is a commercial wireless temperature/humidity sensor that I have mounted in a commercial solar radiation shield. It has been in operation for a couple of years and seems to be reasonably accurate. The … Continue reading
Wren Trouble
This morning I went out to change the bucket on my digger. It has two buckets, one narrow one for trenching and a wider one for moving dirt. There was a tiny bird sitting on the digger arm cussing me … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur Science, Nature, Photography
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