Subj : Re: APRS Weather Stations?
To   : Barry Martin
From : David Smith
Date : Mon May 18 2020 09:26:49

 BM> Your But Firsts seem to be more aggressive in distracting you than mine!
Yep especially lately I seem to get so easlily distracted. Working at home
right now with all this COVID-19 stuff going on and its taking all I can do
to stay focused on actual work! :)

 BM> My writing got ruined from high-speed note-taking in college; in 
 BM> hindsight Gregg Shorthand would have been helpful but I don't know of 
 BM> any tract in the sciences where shorthand is an option.  That seems to 

 BM> be an exclusive of the 'secretarial' tract.  
Not that my handwriting was ever any good, but it was at least legible back
when I was in school. I wish we would have had laptops and stuff back then it
sure would have made things easier! I tried to use one of those micr-casette
recorders to record notes but then when I tried to sit down in my dorm and
listen to them I would always seem to fall asleep! Fortunately, i managed to
make it through college "Thanky Lawdy"! :)


  
 BM> Actually "Intro to Home Ec"
 BM> would be good for college students: how to sew a button, how to clean 
 BM> the dorm room and do laundry (why is everything pink?!)....
Don't get me started on Home Ec! I didn't care much for high school, and
don't remember much of anything I learned there, but two of the few things I
do remember and still use today; Aggriculture/Shop and the week that all the
guys had to take Home Ec! They don't even teach these classes in a lot of
schools now. Its such a shame because these are critical life skills that
everyone needs to learn to be prepared for when they grow up and leave home!


 BM> Most do.  Check www.lirc.org  -- scroll down for the link to the
 BM> database ("Supported Remote Controls" header).
 BM> I used a receiver from a Hauppauge tuner -- can't find the specific
 BM> right now but is one of the two or three commonly used IR detectors in
 BM> a pretty plastic cover and connecting cable.  The problem I had was the
 BM> extraction/build/whatever didn't automatically create several files so
 BM> while I had the first step of detection and decoding and the last step
 BM> of doing something with it Step 2 of linking the two was missing.  (I
 BM> used to watch SouthPark and the episode about "Phase 1 - make
 BM> underpants, Phase 3 - Profit! -- What's 'Phase 2?" 'We dunno'" comes to
 BM> mind!)
 BM> 
 BM> BTW, it appears connecting the IR detector to an RPi 3 and to an RPi4
 BM> are different.  The GPIO pins are the same, maybe the firmware changed??
 BM> I can give links if you want them.
 BM> 
 BM> ...Your comment I just need to find a good IR receiver to work with
 BM> MagiQuest wand and the RPi',  I'm going to say probably not too much of
 BM> a problem; maybe check out this 1 minute video  
 BM> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZec247UpLM  -- I didn't view but the 
 BM> text onthe page indicates it is working with an Arduino.
 BM> 

Hey thats a good video! I looked at a few videos and websites a while back
but nothing with such a good "hands on" demonstration.  Definately gonna save
this one!
My son was commenting on Magiquest last night. He really loved it! I'd sure
like to try to get a little "Mini-Adventure" set up at home for him! :)

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