Blog by YtoTech members on complex and distributed software - made simple and fun!
When I play with my Raspberry Pi or host apps on my server, it always comes a time when I want my programs to automatically run at boot time. Depending on the Debian version or on the requirements the tools change, and each time I see myself searching the web for a way to do it properly. And that’s not a life! A so common need should be easier to fulfilled.
In the previous part we show how to publish and share our radiation measurements through internet services. But what is their value if we don’t have an appropriate way to navigate, consult, visualize and centralize these measurements with those of others? How to give the measurements a meaning and a purpose?
Finally the time has come for the follow-up of this series about the Radiation Watch Pocket Geiger counter.
Some month ago a client of mime offered me a Geiger counter kit from the Radiation Watch project. The last few weeks I was able to play with it. In the white little box resides the Pocket Geiger board, with its photodiode sensor. Radiation Watch is a scientific and citizen initiative born after the Fukushima Daiishi disaster and which has been funded through Kickstarter in July 2011. It aims to…
As I was working on a signal processing project for Equisense, I’ve come to need an equivalent of the MatLab findpeaks function in the Python world. Detecting peaks with MatLab For those not familiar to digital signal processing, peak detection is as easy to understand as it sounds: this is the process of finding peaks - we also names them local maxima or local minima - in a signal. The MatLab DSP…