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The Works of Steven Green

Receiving my Mechanical Engineering BS

My mother came across a picture of me at graduation in 2010, and I am posting it here for posterity.

Receiving my B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Receiving my diploma \(B.S. Mechanical Engineering\)
Fabricating my first temperature sensor board.

I have fabricated a wifi temperature sensor for my IoT project, IoT Plan.

The sensor board uses an ESP32 module for its core functionality: controller, wifi and temperature sensor. I paired it with a buck-boost voltage regulator that can be supplied by battery (3V) or micro-usb (5V) source. A 4-...

We live in a house built in the 60's, and we close off some rooms we rarely use to conserve energy. This year we have been tracking temperatures due to the installation of a new heating system. Wanting to collect more detailed measurements, I am creating a sensor network to collect temperatures auto...

Walking the Queens in Holliston

On a cool and sunny day walk, February 07, 2023, I happened upon a couple birds. A wood-pecker was searching over a tree, and an owl was nestled in a tree-top.

Equipped with my 300mm lens, I captured a couple long range shots.

Woodpecker Woodpecker Owl at tree-top

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In this day and age it may be curious that I do not have much of a social media presence. Short of my Linked-in pages, I have remained deeply skeptical of platforms such as Facebook. This is not the reason I have no presence on Github however.

I have been developing personal software projects fo...

Re-doing my web-site using Grav CMS

I have been doing a detailed update of my web-site.

This includes:

  1. Migrating to External link Grav CMS from Wordpress.
  2. Migrating to new server hardware.
  3. Creating and adding a site logo.
  4. Polishing text verbiage.
  5. Adding a few new posts.

Migration to Grav CMS

I like many parts of...