There are other, more detailed analyses, looking behind the curtains of ChatGPT, this is just a short summary of my own experiences. For more details, look e.g. here: ChatGPT: Interacting via a conversational way! ChatGPT is this (in)famous artificial intelligence which has been all over the media lately. It describes itself as a language model… Continue reading We need to talk about ChatGPT
Category: Science
Temperature measurements with an NTC thermistor
Following a discussion on Facebook I put here an online tool to calculate the output of a voltage divider consisting of a fixed resistor and an NTC thermistor following a first order Steinhart–Hart equation. The calculations are based on a voltage divider where either the voltage over the NTC or over the pass resistor is… Continue reading Temperature measurements with an NTC thermistor
Top deal of the week?
Today I received a newsletter from the publisher Elektor. I am offered a special deal on a Peltier power generator which can power an LED light from a small candle. And this for an astonishing price of €99.95 instead of the normal price of €119.95. I’ll have to buy this – or wait a second…… Continue reading Top deal of the week?
Assembling an USBasp
…at eight times timelapse it only takes 4 ½ minutes…
Nerd or not?
Today there was a geocaching event celebrating Nerd Day. I must admit that I wasn’t aware of the significance of today’s date, but I also knew that I can probably be considered being a nerd. In the early days of the internet, while still writing my master’s thesis in Kiel, I already scored high on… Continue reading Nerd or not?
The end of a short story in life…
This afternoon the birdsnest outside my office window has been plundered by a crow or raven. Even though the parent-birds got reinforcement by two other fieldfares they never had a chance. The small birds only had a few days of life but they somehow enriched my days.
BirdCam – feeding in slow-motion
Because there was a problem with the Raspberry Pi again today, I took the opportunity to film my fieldfares live for a short while. In this slow-motion video you can see how first the female arrives at the nest with a fresh worm. A short while later also the male arrives with a beak full… Continue reading BirdCam – feeding in slow-motion
Hatching time
Ten days Mrs Fieldfare has been sitting in her nest – today was the big day: until late afternoon three eggs had hatched. Now also Mr Fieldfare has to show some effort who has not been much around the nest lately. This is the first day in the life of the young fieldfares in time… Continue reading Hatching time
BirdCam v4
It took four attempts to finally get a suitable webcam to observe the bird’s nest outside my office window. Most cheap webcams, even those which show off with true 720p HD resolution simply cannot cope with the different outdoor lighting conditions over a full day. After a lot of testing and research on the net,… Continue reading BirdCam v4
Setting up webcam exposure under linux
I had some problems with fswebcam to set the automatic exposure. The exact way how to enter certain parameters is not clear from the lacking documentation, but it works fine if you set parameters through another command line tool. This is the script behind BirdCam: #!/bin/bash DATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H%M") v4l2-ctl -c exposure_auto=1 v4l2-ctl -c gamma=5 v4l2-ctl… Continue reading Setting up webcam exposure under linux