The sun is nearing a solar activity maximum.

There are sunspots visible on the surface, and I was able to get a picture of a large one.

The sunspot is visible as slightly darker area on the lower right of the sun.

I've posted my project AGWAN progress slides presented at the SNH Game Developer's meetup on April 18, 2024.

The progress slides can be viewed in the game project section of this site, April 18, 2024 Slides.

It was a beautiful spring day; the sky was clear and the temperature was comfortable. I took a series of photographs as the moon crossed in front of the Sun as seen from Holliston, MA, on April 8, 2024.

I have added a gallery to this site dedicated to this event.

The Eclipse Gallery shows the p...

I've updated my web-site to display my IoT temperature sensor data. Currently there is only one sensor, but I have materials to make two more boards. I expect to have more boards fabricated so I can locate them around the home.

A Grav PHP plugin was written to load the sensor data from a MySQL dat...

Although looking a little ugly, I finally have a working IoT temperature sensor. I had put it down for a time, but returned to this project in January.

The board now:

• wakes from deep sleep
• measures the thermistor temperature via an ADC
• connects to my LAN via wifi
• posts a "rest" message t...

I've posted my project AGWAN progress slides that I presented SNH Game Developer's meetup on December 21, 2023.

They can be viewed in the game project section of this site, December 21, 2023 Slides.