I am working more on creating my wind direction sensor. I normally use Blender, but I feel like other applications are better at the precision work that I need. I watched a 20 minute tutorial on youtube, and got some basics down. I am not very good at it yet,
I am switching methods of angle sensing. After some testing, I think the rotary encoder has too much resistance to use for a wind sensor. I switched to a AS5600 Hall effect sensor, and have been playing around with it. It actually seems to be way better that the other
I got home from work today and took a good nap. When I got up we decided to got to pizza pie cafe. The kids were thrilled, and Mark had wanted to go there anyways. It was really packed so it made it a bit hard to get what we
I did some searching on project planning tools to plan for our sailing trip. I looked at a few different tools, and didn't find any that were a great fit. Asana was ok, but didn't offer some of the base things I needed. Monday was the same may. I think
Today was pretty good at work. I got a lot done and am ready to move forward tomorrow. I have a few meeting, and should be pretty busy tomorrow. We worked on a big slew of Marks homework today. He is a little behind in a few things, but mostly
Mark started vocal for performances classes today. He didn't want to go was fairly angry we signed him up for it. But of course, he really loved it. He said it was a lot of fun and he can't wait to go back. Other than that it was a pretty
Today we went tubing for Mark's birthday. We decided to go some places new this year with just flour family. Normally we go to Soldiers Hallow up near Park City, but we wanted to check this place out. It was a pretty cool place called WasatchParc, and is at Nordic
Today we went and did my Mom and Marks Christmas present to us. She got us tickets to a virtual reality wingsuit simulator. It was really really cool. We went down about lunchtime to Draper and watched a few videos of people that had done it. Then Nikki and I
Warren and I went after I got off work and got haircuts. It's been a while since I got a cut, so mine was really long. Warren's wasn't too bad, but he loves getting his cut. They had a big line, but luckily I scheduled us ahead of getting there.
Mark and I worked out tonight, but the gym was absolutely packed. It was wall to wall people and people standing around everywhere. We lifted weights for about 20 minutes, then Mark was able to find one of the good treadmills. I ended up running on the indoor track, which
Mark started weight lifting classes with Sarah today. He seemed to have a lot of fun and enjoyed it. He said he learned a lot and was really proud that he was able to do a squat with the 45 pound bar. While they did that we ran to Texas
It took some effort to get out the door today. I had to run out and get my coffee cup, and had to make several trips in and out. When I finally did leave the car threw a tire pressure warning, so I had to head back and change to
I worked on my wind indicator app a little bit. I am using an optical encoder to determine wind angle, it has a 3ish degree of precision (kinda). The device has 10 pins, 8 of those being digital pins. These connect to 8 different pins on an Arduino. Then in
Little Mark got attacked by the neighbor's dog today. The kids were headed out to get into the car to get home, and their dogs got out. Nikki screamed for Warren to run, and he made it into the garage, Duke did as well. But Mark got trapped by the
We went out on the boat today. Unfortunatlly it wasn't really windy enough to even put up the sails. We had a lot of fun, but it would have been better sailing. It was pretty cold at times, but not terribly. I took a ton of pictures for BlueSky, and
I woke up at like 945. It was a bit late, especially because I was in bed so early, but I needed it. When I finally got up I started making breakfast and got a text from my dad. We were supposed to go over for breakfast. We threw on