Woo-hoo! Troy took Christian into one of the Ag Engineering labs at NCSU to set up a server to which we plan to send images from a remote camera. Incidentally, I STOLE the picture from Troy’s Water Blog, a very cool blog about all things water where he will be talking about this project as we move along. He was able to get the computer installed and on the network so we can access it remotely from our home computers. Next he needs to get the camera going so it sends it pictures to the server. Even though Christian is currently studying C++ as part of his homeschool, we have pretty much decided that we want to do the file management for this project in Python. For stuff like this, it is really hard to beat. So I am going to continue working on the image processing parts of the project while Troy gets the mechanical system together and Christian works on learning Python so he can do the file management tasks.
P.S. Lynn has requested, and I concur, that Kelly put up some pictures of her Amigurumi dragon and Martha Stewartesque push-pins. It would be a shame not to share such craft geniusness with the world!
Right! Let’s see the Martha Stewartesque push pins and the dragon!!
Cool picture of the lab work. I’m impressed with all the computer stuff you guys do.