South Devon Tech Jam – May 11th 2019 South Devon Tech Jam, is a small group of enthusiasts, who organise monthly informal and friendly sessions for anyone interested in technology, regardless of age or ability. We hope those who attend our sessions will enjoy learning new skills and sharing experiences about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts…
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Water Isomers
Scientists have found and separated two isomers of Water (H2O). Reported in Science Daily back in May 2018. To expand on I have found an explanation as to what Diazenylium is. Interesting stuff.
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Falcon Heavy Test Flight When Falcon Heavy lifts off, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. With the ability to lift into orbit nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 lb)
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Continue readingAdventures with Arduino Part 12
Fixes for the Arduino weather station project : With reference to my previous post which outlines a few issues with the project results. The line t = t* 9/5 + 32; converts from degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit replace this with t = t to keep the temperature as degrees Celsius. If you are from a…
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Project 31 in the Arduino project handbook is a Weather station using the DHT-11 temperature / humidity sensor. This project is a little more involved as it requires you to download the library for the dht11 and install it so that the Arduino IDE can find and load it. The project works really well,…
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Today saw the launch of NASAs Orion rocket on a test flight which may one day pave the way for people to land on Asteroids and eventually Mars. Or this is the hope. Further mission information can be found on the NASA mission page. A video of the launch can be found here. (Youtube video)…
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