Last seen: Mar 10, 2024
The only piece of advice I have is that if you don't own/have access to a soldering iron, make sure to get one of the Pi Zeros with the header soldere...
@markyharris I replaced the Pi, and everything is working normally! This is a great example of why it's a good idea to build everything with quick-r...
@markyharris So I spent too much time chasing hardware problems before I zeroed in on this one. I could tell that I had a short between GPIO 19 and g...
Okay, here's something interesting. On further analysis, I saw the following message: [I 200831 15:28:19 metar-v4:1285] Switch in position 4. Bre...
Yes, METAR is the data product being displayed, according to the settings. I bumped up the log to debug, and I'm assuming it's the logfile.log in th...
(As a note, I'm not sure why Skyvector is displaying TRK as purple/LIFR - it's reporting 3 mile viz with an indefinite ceiling of 3,000 feet.)
Vance - I'm looking at your pictures, and it looks like you've mounted the light sensor inside the picture frame somehow. What did you use to suspend...
Now that I've learned how to crimp connectors, everything looks much cleaner. I attached the Adafruit breadboard on to a piece of hardboard (annoying...
The catch was looking at all the LEDs and realizing that it wasn't random flashes, but it was the same airports going to the same colors! Here's the...
For anybody reading this thread, I also found that the standard breadboard was flaky due to lack of good connections. Symptoms were that the Pi would...