July 8, 2020 As an astronomy hobbyist, my only major gripe with the solar system is its predictability. With the motions of nearly all the planetary bodies being so well understood, the exact time of every eclipse, transit, or conjunction can be known centuries in advance. While this doesn’t rob these events of their spectacle,... Continue reading: Comet NEOWISE
September 1, 2019 View Project Code on GitHub Towards the tail end of the summer of 2019, I helped my parents replace some sprinklers for their home irrigation system, which got me thinking. Any time it was forecast to rain, one of us would typically have to go out in the garage and disable automatic... Continue reading: Fully Automated Sprinkler Controller
August 20, 2019 View Project Code on GitHub In attempting to find ways to pass the time between my high school graduation and leaving for college, I stumbled upon a rabbit hole that would ultimately prove to be highly influential to my future interests in the field of RF and amateur radio. I had... Continue reading: Receiving and Decoding NOAA Weather Satellite Transmissions
