Winter is here, stepping out this morning it was -2, hopefully the start of some nice seasonal weather with a showering of snow and not the minimum temperature for the year.

The twitters tell me that Bunnie Huang of Hacking the Xbox , Breaking SD Cards , The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen and a ton of other cool things has a new book in the works . I read Hacking the Xbox when it was released for Free after Aaron Swartz's death, the book is an excellent read and gave me a ton of insights about electronics and breaking physical things. The new book is in early access, which means you can read it if you think reading tiny bits of a book is a good idea.

While on the nostarch I looked at another early access book, Attaching Network Protocols . The cover, looking a Tardigrade at a glance(it isn't), drew me in, the awesome title didn't hurt.

Hopefully the internet will come alive and tell me when these two books are finished and available.

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Of course that snowy picture was taken up a mountain, but it was only about 4 degrees up there. Warmer than it seems it is going to get to today.

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Last night at the hacker space I finally got around to building hardware out for my emfcamp badge powered satellite tracker . Most of the time was spent hot gluing together foam board to make a stand for the servos I integrated the control code with the TCP server and the whole thing is controllable from gpredict now.

When testing servos, knifes are the recommended indicator devices.

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Today I've got nothing. At my desk there are a load of started and unfinished projects, parts for other things, kits from boldport club to be made. Nothing that is interesting even in its started state, components to make cools things, coolness sold separately.

At the hackerspace tonight I will try to finish my sat tracker , but even that is a fallback project. The projects I want to have completed have such a high bar to entry.

I wonder if my brain empties out in cycles.

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My Idea to use the hugin stitching software to make a panorama from some images I found on my camera seems to have hit a snag. I am convinced I didn't have a tripod with me and took the panorama in a haphazard fashion, I remember the area by the glacier being much much colder than the campsite we were staying in and I was pushed to leave.

I opened up the 8 images I had to try and stitch together and while they sort of fall out in a reasonable orde I think it is going to take some time with the software to get them together. Unless I find the more magic button .

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