How is everyone today?
Too much meta discussion on here, feel free to use this thread for some good old fashioned casual conversation.

What did you do today, got any plans for the weekend? That weather’s been somethin else lately hasn’t it. Catch the game last night? I don’t know what that ref was thinking!

All that good stuff.

  • Pixel of Life
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    91 year ago

    My dad gave me a cheap radio receiver that plugs into the USB port on a computer, and I built an antenna for receiving images from weather satellites.

    Here’s the antenna (it’s just a plastic pipe, a couple pieces of perforated steel strap and some threaded rods, nuts and washers):

    And here are some of the images I received yesterday from the NOAA-19 and NOAA-15 satellites respectively (with a map overlay):

    • since
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      11 year ago

      Wow, that’s incredibly cool. How did you get into that?