We finally got some rain in Western Victoria. Drought breaking? I don't think so.

I'm not sure it is widely understood than there is almost 1000 sq km of Little Desert and 1500 sq km of Gariwerd/Grampians now burnt out. Together that is about double the size of NYC.

Was wondering what the temp and humidity were inside yesterday, looked down at my desk at the ESP32 I was testing on the weekend with a DHT22 sensor - looked at the wall where a RaspberryPi is mounted (long story) and 15 minutes later had a little website that shows current temp/humidity

The timer is a neat unit and I pulled it apart to see if I could use the solenoid valve and enclosure. I was surprised to find a 10 pin connector block - looked like JTAG. Looking further it uses an ABOV A31G112KU chip - ARM Cortex-M0+ based. The header is for SWD debug. 2/4

Got a few of these kits to upgrade the system we have to keep our chooks (chickens) cool in summer. It comes with a digital timer that I didn't use as I have an Arduino-based system that reacts to temperature: github.com/ajdonnison/s...

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First Strike Team Deployment for the season. Spent the day near Mafeking doing asset protection and containment line monitoring. This fire is now > 20,000ha so I suspect there will be a few more of these deployments over the next weeks or even months.

Game on! Somehow I have to get all this back together into a working tractor before the grass gets too high.

This little chappy showed up with its mate in the last few days. Pity I couldn't get a shot when it was flying as the colours under its wings and on the body are just amazing.

Last night the moon through the clouds was a real treat - not sure I did it justice though.

I may not have an elephant but I do have some ducks

I can't find a photo of the first computer I ever used, but in uni I wrote MONECS Fortran using mark sense 80 column punch cards and waiting for the output at a printer not too far from the one pictured. Stood in line to feed the cards in, then getting the deck rejected. Painful.