Category Archives: Random

Nest Thermostat Data Logging

Posted on 2014-07-09 by Nigel VH

I have a Nest thermostat here at the house, which we really like a lot. It’s great for keeping track of energy usage on heating, as well as being able to remotely control the settings, in addition to the insanely … Continue reading →

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Random Number Generator

Posted on 2014-07-09 by Nigel VH

I’ve always been interested in the idea of truly random phenomenon, and in particular, the quantum effects like avalanche noise that one can take advantage of to generate truly random data. Note that I say truly random, as compared to … Continue reading →

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Meyer Lemon Take Two

Posted on 2014-07-09 by Nigel VH

A while back I posted about getting a pretty small Meyer Lemon tree, in the hopes of not failing utterly at growing things, like I normally do. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I succeeded there… I’m not sure it was entirely … Continue reading →

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2014 Balloons Launch

Posted on 2014-06-01 by Nigel VH

Launch happened the morning of Saturday, May 31st. We had two launches from Moses Lake, WA. We were successful in recovering both of the payload strings, and received good data throughout the flights. The first flight carried a number of … Continue reading →

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Black Rock 2014

Posted on 2014-05-11 by Nigel VH

As some of you may know, each year for the past several, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to volunteer my time and expertise to a couple of classes at the University of Washington, one of which makes a … Continue reading →

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