Over the years I’ve used a variety of sensor tracking programs that ran on smart phones. These programs will read the sensors built in the phone and log them. I like this because it uses hardware that is already available. There are many apps that I have used to do this. The latest one I used is called SensorLog authored by Bernd Thomas. As of this writing it is at version 1.9.2, dated June 2nd, 2017. I’ll be covering some…
Several years ago I purchased a small video camera that was shaped like a flashlight for $50. It had VGA 640 x 480 30 fps video quality and would record up to 2 hours on a single charge. I used it to record several bike rides around the county on numerous bike trails. The videos provided a way to recall the conditions and experiences which I used to plan future trips. A couple of years later I purchased some 808…
When you are away from your computer, how do you know it is operating as expected? Some might use a web front end to allow them a way to periodically check it, but that involves taking a few moments to do. Instead of the person initiating the check, how about having the machine initiate its status. One way to do this is using email as the transport method. In this post I’ll cover two command line email tools that will…