The CME impacts from the last two days sparked a decent magnetic storm. The magnetometer has gone bananas! On Feb 20, at ~11:30 UTC it went off the scale – for first time in years.
The crochet sphere pattern generator is getting some use…
February 19th, 2014 by admin No comments »
The crochet sphere pattern calculator is getting some use…
Unexpected magnetic storm
February 19th, 2014 by admin No comments »
Today my magnetometer recorded an unexpected magnetic storm (see magnetogram above). I’ve been expecting the storm about two days ago but when the time passed without any disturbance I thought it missed us.
Magnetic crochet from X3-class solar flare
November 5th, 2013 by admin No comments »
Magnetogram showing the crochet from the X3 solar flare from the AR1890 sunspot (Nov 5, 2013)
This is the first time my home-made magnetometer records a crochet. A geomagnetic crochet is caused by the increased ionization of the ionosphere due to by the X-rays from the flare.
UV Exposure Card
October 3rd, 2013 by admin No comments »Somebody used my countown timer project to create UV exposure card:
Very nice work on the PCB!
Here is another video, showing the timer controlling a lamp:
Another magnetic storm
October 3rd, 2013 by admin No comments »
Magnetic storm, Oct 2, 2013
Last night my DIY magnetometer recorded another very nice magnetic storm. The initial CME impact arrived just on schedule (as predicted by NASA), shortly before 2am UTC. You can also see the impact of a second CME front shortly after 4:30am UTC.
For real-time data, check this page.
TI-89 Games
September 7th, 2013 by admin No comments »
TI-89 Titanium games
Recently I got a TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator and found out that writing programs for it is quite easy and fun. Here are some games I wrote for TI-89:
GPS tracklog wallpaper
August 13th, 2013 by admin No comments »
GPS logs visualization as of Aug 10, 2013
My new desktop wallpaper – updated from GPS tracks on Aug 10, 2013. Image generated using my Perl GPS scripts.
GPSMash 1.3 released
August 5th, 2013 by admin No comments »GPSMash is a tool for processing tracklogs. Features include:
– data recovery from from broken GPX and NMEA log files
– handling and organizing large amounts of GPS data
– filtering and cleaning-up data
– exporting track data to various formats
– transforming GPS track records according to predefined rules
– analyzing and producing reports from GPS data
– inclusion in scripts for automated data processing
Vesion 1.3 updates include:
– support for NMEA import and recovery of data from broken/incomplete NMEA GPS logs
– better data cleanup
Here is an example video of GPS track visualization produced with GPSMash and Blender:
GPSMash 1.2 released
June 15th, 2013 by admin No comments »GPSMash is a tool for processing GPS tracklogs in GPX format. Features include:
– data recovery from from broken GPX files
– handling and organizing large amounts of GPS data
– filtering and cleaning-up data
– exporting track data to various formats
– transforming GPS track records according to predefined rules
– analyzing and producing reports from GPS data
– inclusion in scripts for automated data processing
Here is an example video of GPS track visualization produced with GPSMash and Blender:
