This Jupyter Notebook and astropipeline Source Code Available Here  … AKA Finding Stars in Someone Else’s Astronomy Homework Brief Background The following example uses a single element of the NEWFIRM infrared instrument while it was… Measuring Objects from FITS Files

If you ask me how much I like the fields of statistics and metrology, I will tell you that I need to exit the conversation so I can go rearrange my sock drawer. Conversely, if… Information, Entropy, SNR, and Dabbling in Astrometry

During my COVID downtime, I decided to investigate the concept of economic undercurrents. I wanted to see if there were underlying relationships between any two stocks that could be used to *cough, cough* make smart… Do Pork Futures Affect The Value of Google Stock?

These are the details of the switch box I constructed for my DCS World project and the Arduino code used. The switches themselves are simple push buttons and SPDT type toggle switches. The box itself… Reading Switch Positions with Arduino and Sending the Data out over Ethernet

This one was a real brain-buster. The USGS has an awesome app called EarthExplorer (here) that allows you to select a region (or regions), see what data is available for them, and then order the… Converting BIL terrain data into an Octave/MATLAB array

For how simple this looks, it was actually a really involved project. The concept was to build a hardware interface for the DCS World flight simulator. To accomplish this feat of pure nerddom, I did… Flight Simulator Interface Using Lua