This blog has remained more or less untouched for over two years. Sure, I updated the domain at one point, but other than that, it’s been more or less dormant. That all changes today, with the release of my new and improved website! Well, sort of new. There’s actually a mix of new and old
There are lots of ways to figure out where you’re going in Calgary. You can use a general-purpose map service like Google Maps or Apple Maps, one of the City of Calgary’s single-purpose mobile apps (e.g. Pathways and Bikeways), 511AB, or even that paper map that you forgot is in your glovebox. However, all of
The e-Design DSO203 (sometimes referred to as the DSO Quad) is a great little portable oscilloscope for budget hobbyists and field work. It’s compact, runs on battery power, and offers 2 analog inputs, 2 digital outputs, and a waveform generator (although it only comes with 2 probes for some reason). However, it’s featureset is a
Having your own personal weather station is great and all, but what if you want to actually see what the current conditions are without having to open up your live dashboard? What if you could just look at a display in the kitchen for an instantaneous dose of meteorological goodness? That’s where cheapo OLED modules
I’ve designed and constructed an outdoor IoT weather station that can report humidity, temperature, and pressure every 48 times a day, every day, for months on end. It does not require a base station or hub, is constructed from inexpensive parts, and the data can easily be read from anywhere using the Thingspeak API. All
I decided to combine my love for Calgarian breakfast restaurants (I visited over 50 in 2018 alone) and data science to create my capstone: a report on the best communities in Calgary to open a new breakfast restaurant in, and what to look for when picking a breakfast restaurant location. There are 2 major facts
In case you were wondering what the header animation is, it’s a quick 24-line (excluding blank lines and closing braces) Processing sketch. Here it is, in all its slapped-together-in-a-few-minutes glory: To convert the output frames to an MP4 video for use on WordPress, I imported it as an image sequence in Blender’s NLE and exported
Want to check how even the heating of your printer bed is, or where the heat is escaping your house, but don’t want to pay hundreds of dollars on a FLIR camera? Ever looked at your laser-guided infrared thermometer and thought to yourself, “golly, this device only has about 25% of the number of lasers