A great idea for the aquatic environment

 

Ciao Piero!

 Cari amici, mi spiace non essere più con voi dopo 70 anni assieme. Ma anche la natura ha i suoi ritmi. Sono stati anni per me molto stimolanti che mi hanno portato a conoscere il mondo e la natura umana.

Soprattutto ho avuto la fortuna di conoscere gente che mi ha aiutato a realizzare quello che ogni uomo vorrebbe scoprire. Grazie alla scienza e a un metodo che permette di affrontare i problemi in modo razionale ma al tempo stesso umano.

Malgrado una lunga malattia sono riuscito a portare a termine tutte le mie trasmissioni e i miei progetti (persino una piccola soddisfazione: un disco di jazz al pianoforte…). Ma anche, sedici puntate dedicate alla scuola sui problemi dell’ambiente e dell’energia.

È stata un’avventura straordinaria, vissuta intensamente e resa possibile grazie alla collaborazione di un grande gruppo di autori, collaboratori, tecnici e scienziati.

A mia volta, ho cercato di raccontare quello che ho imparato.

Carissimi tutti, penso di aver fatto la mia parte. Cercate di fare anche voi la vostra per questo nostro difficile Paese.

Un grande abbraccio

Piero Angela

Better position my weather station

 It's a lot of time I didn't write anything on this blog. This is the perfect opportunity to returning on my personal weather station made of a simple electric board and plastic cover.

The problem was the place to put it and if it need to be covered.

I live in a flat on the 5th floor exposed to South-South-West direction: this implies that I receive agood amount of sunlight starting from the second part of the day till the sunset.

For this reason I obtain good quality values starting from the previous night until about noon.

My last update is this:

• positioning the ws in a internal corner of the balcony (on the left as you exit);
• cover it with a wooden box;
• the wall-side exposed and the upper part covered with a sun visor on top on which I placed a plant (just to keep everything blocked).

 

RESULTS:

• during the summer I have maximum temperature difference during the hottest hours of ca. 5°C/8°C more (that's not good);
• during the night I have the problem of too many saturation humidity values. 

 

continue...

Computer Science Resources

Just a few book...

• HTML5
  
• CSS3
• jQuery 
• Javascript 
• Markdown
• Any languages (important!!) 
• Wordpress
  

 Take a look!

Mars2020: Perseverance - My Boarding Pass

This is my Boarding Pass to Mars... and this is so axciting!!

Mars Exploration Program: PERSEVERANCE (Febrary, 18th 2021)

 

 

...and I'm here!

MeteoLeccebot (Telegram Bot)

 Do you now the bot in Telegram, right?

Well, this is my new adventure (in Wi-Fi... cit. one of the album of my favorite band...).

Creating a bot seems to be a simple operation and it is!

So I tried to create ones.

Just for starting I used my best project to transpose it in a Telegram bot answering to the following question: if I wanted to know a specific weather parameter of my weather station? I.e. temperature?

Well: the Telegram bot is the answer! (no, not 42!)

1. First of all: download Telegram app
2. Go to the account @BotFather
3. Create your personal bot through the instructions you find in it
4. Well... happy hacking!

I chose python to create my personal bot. Take a look at the code, but before of this you have to know that my shield transmits his data to the cloud platform ThingSpeak.com right here: https://thingspeak.com/channels/145284

In this way our bot answer to the request connecting himself to that link and, after analyzed the word received from the user, resend all the main data.

Here is the code:

import sys

import time

import json

from urllib import request

import telepot

from telepot.loop import MessageLoop

def handle(msg):

content_type, chat_type, chat_id = telepot.glance(msg)

print(content_type, chat_type, chat_id, msg)

# immagazzina in una variabile la risposta dal GET response

response = request.urlopen('https://thingspeak.com/channels/145284/feeds.json?results=2')

# preleva i dati json dalla richiesta

data = response.read().decode('utf-8')

# convertiamo la stringa in dizionario

data_dict = json.loads(data)

# separiamo i valori che ci interessano

feeds = data_dict['feeds']

#origin = msg

#origin = msg.read().decode('utf-8')

#data_msg = json.loads(msg)

#dati = data_msg['field1']

#print(msg['text'])

# stampo i valori

text="La Temperatura è di: " + str(float(feeds[1]['field1'])) + " C\n" \

"L'Umidità è il: " + str(float(feeds[1]['field2'])) + " %\n" \

"Il Dew Point è di: " + str(round(float(feeds[1]['field3']),1)) + " C\n" \

"La Pressione è di: " + str(round(float(feeds[1]['field5']),1)) + " hPa"

print(text)

if msg['text'] == 'Meteo' or msg['text'] == 'meteo':

bot.sendMessage(chat_id, text)

#if content_type == 'text':

# bot.sendMessage(chat_id, text)

TOKEN = 'my-token'

bot = telepot.Bot(TOKEN)

MessageLoop(bot, handle).run_as_thread()

print ('Listening ...')

# Keep the program running.

while 1:

time.sleep(10)

Once you access on Telegram you can search for MeteoLeccebot:

And when you ask for the data you have to digit the word Meteo or meteo (weather, in italian) you receive what you have requested:

That's all!

Weather Station (evolution)

 If I can free more space in the box that contains all the components of the weather station: welcome!

I can do it using a component which contains a lot of sensors in itself. the BME280.

This electronic component is a multisensor, it can measure:

• Temperature
• Humidity
• Atmosferic pressure

BME280

 

I bought it here:

BME280

 

  That's all... then... start again projecting a new device!

Drawing a neuron for fun

Have fun drawing the topics you are reading...

Meet the Artemis Team

Could I not think about the Moon and the next missions?

Obviously no... thus... Artemis is the next generation that will step on it: have a good take off, a good travel and ...send back the best message: united towards the civilization of other planets in the name of peace!

Computer science TV series

 If you want be absorbed by a story I suggest you to watch this TV series:

STALK

Happy hacking!