Musical thinking is the thought processes involved in formulating musical compositions (sequences of notes intended to evoke a particular affective state) so that they can be played by a musical device (musician(s) plus instrument(s)). It involves thought processes such as recognizing or selecting a key, formulating a melody,…
I've been experiencing this growing, general dissatisfaction with my own "knowledge work". I can read papers and write stuff and even analyze data for a week straight and not feel like I've done anything. I have this constant background anxiety over not publishing enough. Other, non-writing artifacts I generate are…
I was having trouble flashing my ESP-8266 using an Arduino (it used to work...), so I bought an adapter on Amazon. Here are the steps for using it to flash the ESP-8266.…
I have some leftovers of an earlier generation of sensors from the InSPECT project, and want to get them streaming their data over MQTT (as part of my general IoT-in-a-Box project). Self-identifying sensor/actuator devicesInSPECT has had two main generations of sensors. This first generation connected over USB to a…
OK, so I don't currently have a really good reason to use MQTT to start a timelapse. I could have just ssh'd to the Pi and started a timelapse script that way. But I didn't, mainly because I wanted to move toward IoT cameras as part of my IoT-in-a-Box project.…
Recently I've started the project of getting a Raspberry Pi to provide everything I need to IoT-ify my house. The general idea is to have one Raspberry Pi do three things: read and stream data from any connected hardware (including usb-connected sensors, the Raspberry Pi camera, or GPIO pins), run…
I'm going to reproduce the steps I took to create this blog, so that I can either do it again in the future, or help someone else do the same.…