July 28, 2010

Picking up compressors…

Filed under: Everything — Capn Scott @ 11:43 am

Ran down to Pensacola to pick up a compressor for the dive shop. I’ve bought 8 of these humongous MC1A compressors, so far,  and converted them to breathing air. They are pretty nice and fill a tank rather quickly…

I wonder how nice the mayor has to be here…  ”Hi, I’m the mayor of Niceville”…  What a great pickup line…

Capn Scott

July 6, 2010

New inventions and pulling rabbits out of the hat…

Filed under: Everything — Capn Scott @ 11:22 pm

Been working on this crazy project for a bit.  Trying to build small autonomous weather stations that don’t need computers and such.  Not only does it report to the internet by itself (long distance wifi and solar powered), but it can be hooked up to relays and such. Let’s say, I use a soil or leaf dampness indicator, and if it’s too dry, it intelligently turns on a sprinkler (in accordance with water regulations (day of the week and time)) of course… But, if the barometer is dropping (indicating a rain front) it will hold off a while.  Weather stations should do something as well as report the weather… Been cranking out code till late at night and dealing with weather sensors…

Well finally, I’m seeing some progress…

I have more stuff coming, but this is getting very cool…

Capn Scott