That was October. Of 2021. Time is weird, yo.

Climate Emergency

  • More letters each week, but now with a reply from the BC environment minister now that the update to BC’s climate plan has come out. Lots of reading through that and figuring out how I feel about it.

  • More asking my MLA (who’s the education minister) for a meeting to talk about fracking. No response.

  • Attended a protest for the first time since university. Felt awkward…but if that’s the worst, I’ll keep doing this.

Hardware hacking

  • Playing with a TM1638 module I ordered.

  • BIRBCAM! Set up cheap binoculars so that they’re focused on a bird feeder at my in-laws’ house; set up a webcam behind them; get the Coral dev board connected to their wifi; get Motion running on it; and get Motion taking pictures, then getting an example script to analyze the pictures post-hoc. The identification is a little all over the map, but as a bird detector it works great. Pic can be found here.

  • I ordered a handheld anemometer a while back; it arrived, and I realized it did Bluetooth. That led me down the path of trying to decode the packets, rather than install the dodgy-looking app that I’m sure is totally fine, not even a problem Still not figured out

Data science/ML/GIS