Monday, 25 June 2018

Trying Google Cardboard

This is my Google Cardboard:


With it I found a way not only to do new kind of experiment,
but a new way to go away from my reality.

It's a pleasure to understand how it works: first of all I had to
unpack everything and mount each component in a way to
start the use of my cardboard.

Once I extracted the instrument I opened the box and followed the instructions.

It was very simple to open that strange "wings",
try to make a match between the different parts.




I was very excited while I was building this
binocular, each little part was unravelled
and now it was in front of me ready to make me
curious to explore another kind of reality.










Nearly like a "Transformer" it was turning from a simple box to a useless thing able to carry me
to another world.


And now it was there!
Just like a fiction helmet, only the main piece was missing: my mobile to inserted in the front.











 Ok, the mobile was positioned in the exact housing:
remained to be done only the choice of the movie or the
video suitable for the cardboard.
 Do you see how is perfect the case for the mobile?
The carton is not so fragile as we can think, in the contrary it is very resistant.







Take the opportunity to try something new.















Obviously we cannot choose a normal format video: we have to try a movie composed of two images one for the left eye and one for the right.



In this way we can start our adventures.
I suggest to use the app "Cardboard" for your first experiments:
Then you can find more videos simply going on YouTube searching by "Google Cardboard video" (or similar words).

During my experience I had the opportunity see imaginary world and to see the Aurora!! Exciting!!

Good adventure!

Saturday, 23 June 2018

My Day

What am I doing today?
  • Weather station:
    • buying electric box (going to the shop in Lecce by bike);
  • Studying Deep Learning;
  • Experimenting with the VR (using the Google's Cardboard);
  • Reading something about History: Vikings (on the National Geographic supplement: STORICA);
  • Reading a little bit of the book FACTFULLNESS (knowing our world by the use of the facts [Hans Rosling]);
  • Using Duolingo for the study of three of the following languages: 
    • Swedish;
    • Norwegian (Bokmal);
    • Danish;
    • German.
(Of course I didn't mentioned the contour things: cooking, washing, etc...)

That's all...

Friday, 18 May 2018

My next projects

This is a short list about my next projects:

  • a chiper weather station;
  • a new app based on GFS satellite's information; 
  • antenna for receiving GFS satellite's signals;
  • using D3 to generate graphics online for my weather forecasts;
  • use of machine learning in weather forecasts.
I hope to have some ideas about anything out of weather forecasts!! :-D

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Arduino and Blynk (1)

This is my last experiment with Arduino UNO and the adding of the useless platform Blynk (for Android).
So I decided to have a real time visualizer of a set of datas for Android.
Preview of the experiment
In the picture we can see the presence of a special clock which provides not only the time, but also the environmental temperature. In this way we can compare our misure with the real misure.
All we can see that the values are the same (22°C the first number on the tablet and the number in the blue squared clock on the right side). 
The other values are: humidity (48%), Dew point (10.47°C) and the pressure (1004.27 hPa).
In one of the next posts I'll show you all the construction phases and the starting of the generation of a real electronic board.
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