Here’s a quick list, for my own reference, of what I got up to in January. It’s heartening to see everything laid out, and realize that I’ve actually managed to get a fair bit done!
Hardware hacking
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My father-in-law and I worked on getting the precipitation meter going for our weather station. It took a while, but we finally got it working. 🎉
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Some one-wire temperature sensors came in, and I was able to whip up a quick demo to make sure they worked.
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Talked to my father-in-law about building a Lehmann seismograph. Early days, but I think he’s in.
Polaris
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Worked on my upcoming talk on Polaris for PyCascades 2021. (Final version recorded just yesterday.)
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Got a hugo site whipped together for polarisml.space, which now has links to our demo, code, chat and documentation.
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Cut my first release for Polaris after getting our page on PyPi sorted out.
Machine learning
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Some progress, though slow, on going through the FastAI book.
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Tripped over Roboflow, which generates synthetic data for ML; very interesting, and I may give this a try for the dishwasher loading critic.
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Some initial experiments with detecto, a simple wrapper for PyTorch object detection.
Radio
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Not a whole lot of trips out, but some…and managing to reach D4Z Cape Verde on 10W. 9,155 km!
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Totalled up my contacts toward SKCC Centurion…42/100. Normally I’m not big on this sort of thing, but it’s a number to reach for, and that’s no bad thing right now.
