Start with the End in Mind. Goals Understand the nature of the temperature gradient relative to a heated building with attached enclosed space Notify me when there is a risk of garage stores beverages freezing (and possibly bursting) Notify…
Internet of Things (IoT) Project-Part 1
This project is a work in progress.I’m pretty close to being done with phase 1. The Project: (The need for knowledge.) From practical experience, I know that the temperature closer to the heated structure is warmer than further away.…
Tracking the Position of a live Mouse
Placecell research. That’s what it is called. In our brains, there are cells that become active when you are somewhere familiar. This is how we can drive home and not even remember taking the exit ramp off the highway.…
The Leaning Zombie – High tech Halloween project
This project is for fun and to get my kids exposed to project based work, the typical problems that come up, dealing with constraints and trade-offs and more. The Idea: In front of our house, there are decent sized trees.…
Using Cognos Report Studio as a bulk email tool
I’m not referring to spam here. My customer needed a way to communicate with subsets of their customers. All of the (internal) customers were in a database and they were classified by which type of customer they were. Luckily the email…
Infrastructure The silent project plan killer
In theory, you get a piece of software and install it and begin using it. That works maybe 30% of the time. Invariably, you run the install and various messages begin to pop up. Maybe you have a permission problem,…