I’ve been working on various projects. A little bit every day. One of those is getting my images to automatically be converted to the look I want. Using ImageMagick, I’m getting there, it’s just there is no interface so I have to figure what I’m doing and test until out looks right. I’m getting close, just need to add a couple more options now and set it up with a batch file or hot folder.
One that’s done I’ll start posting all my other little projects, with most of them hopefully having some nice pictures attached. Really I should do a post about automagically converting pictures.
Experimental verification
While I could use a store bought temperature sensor, I’m doing it all old school like. After verifying that there is a correlation between temperature and conductivity via Wikipedia. I cut off a couple jumpers, realized they didn’t fit the breadboard, and then remembered I have precut jumpers that came with my arduino.
Put some tape on one and threw it in the freezer. Put a second jumper in the fridge. Going to use another for control.
That didn’t work. Cooper gave me infinite conductivity even being in the freezer for half an hour. Future efforts might use a different metal. Maybe a nickel or dime or whatever.
Error messages
Wouldn’t it be wicked if error messages had text that could be copied and pasted? Instead I have to take a damn screenshot.
Garden pt 2
Three more… or less.
Garden Project
I like adding a little bit of adventure to my everyday life. In this case, I’m creating garden tags. None of this boring droid though. Dangerous plants. Macabre plants. Sentence frame plants.
These are some of the preliminary sketches. I still need to trace,clean, and colorize. Really I already did that with three of them, but I thought it sounded better to make it a process.
Apple press
This will be a thing. Soon ™.
Problem.
That hose would have to take the maximum pressure I’d be applying to the apples. I really doubt that’d be a win.
I could invert the jack.
I could put the jack below the drawer and use food grade hose for the squeezins.
I could hand crank.
I could look at a piano screw method.
I’m linking the idea of the jack on the bottom. Using rails, the drawer would stay flat, and the handle could also be easily driven by a train style motion. I think this’d work.
Holiday traffic
The commute on holiday weekends is always weird. I get used to the people that I see every morning on my different buses, but on the last day before a holiday always brings out the weird.
I’ve got glasses now
Oh wow, where did you get glasses?
My parents drove them up from the Bahamas.
Really?
Of course not, the Bahamas are islands.
On a serious note I now have perma vertigo as the left hand of the world is falling off.
Proj
Wow. Third time writing this post and it keeps deleting everything when I architect one word. Guys I’ll have to only proofread after the fact or start saving as drafts on a regular basis.
I’m proud of myself. I so wanted to put a big ol mf in there. I still want to.
Didn’t see Iron Man
We got to the theatre, but everyone else thought the same thing. Five dollars is an awesome price. Circles the loss for about 20 minutes and then found the overflow parking. By the time we got to the window, the only tickets left were for 3d with the only seats being front row. We decided to go home.
Waters plants. Bust hose. Did dishes. Baked cookies.
As a plus note I’m getting better with the swipe to type thing. Seems to have better luck figuring out what I’m typing vs the keyboard.