No ML/DS work this month. But I am beginning to get interested in microscopy, so…

Hardware hacking

Does it count as hardware hacking if it’s all software? A question for the ages. Anyhow: set up motion on the Raspberry Pi running the birdhouse camera. Set up a cron job on the Pi to copy the captured movies back to my home machine. Set up a cron job on my home machine to make a gallery out of it using PiGallery 2, which is just what the doctor ordered.
The weather station had been saying for a while that my in-laws' place was getting 14m of rain per day, which seemed excessive. Took a look at that, and broke readings from the anemometer as well. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Dug more and discovered that the connector between those two pieces of equipment and the Cat5 cable (ask your parents, kids) had rusted. Soldered up a replacement and we were back in business.
A friend of mine (hi Matt!) gave me an OBD bluetooth dongle to try on the car. I spent a truly stupid amount of time trying to query it with Python, which led me into Bluetooth Hell. I love Linux but OMG sometimes it’s the worst.
Set up an MQ135 to try and read CO2 levels at home. Getting mixed results, which seems to be par for the course. A collection of links in no particular order: