{"id":598,"date":"2018-12-07T20:32:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T04:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/?p=598"},"modified":"2019-12-06T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T23:34:21","slug":"new-sensors-and-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"New Sensors and work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, good news first, I just got some new sensors as of &#8230; 30 min ago?&nbsp; I&#8217;m really excited to test out the 6 channel spectrometer, but I also got a light and proximity sensor, Garden HAT for the Pi Zero and a few LCD displays.<br>Specifically, I got the following from Pimoroni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AS7262 &#8211; 6 channel spectral sensor<\/li><li>LTR-559 &#8211; Close range (4 cm?) proximity detector &amp; lumen sensor<\/li><li>1.12&#8243; Mono OLED 128&#215;128 display<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, I revisited my Raspberry Pi Network Testers, which are 2x Pi&#8217;s made to test Ethernet cables and routes.&nbsp; It&#8217;s now been updated to my present Python &amp; Linux programming knowledge.&nbsp; AKA it now uses systemd services,&nbsp;bash installer scripts and works directly with the original E-Ink libraries, instead of a 3rd party one I found.&nbsp; All in all, its cleaner, more efficient and functions as one would expect for use and errors.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m getting closer to releasing another Sensor Control Center update, but I might tweak a few things before that.&nbsp; I want to enhance my SQL note section, so you can browse, edit and delete entries.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>We&#8217;ll see what happens.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also been thinking about making an I.T. technician toolkit of sorts.\u00a0 Creating a simple GUI app to quickly do common IT related tasks, like quick virus scan with a self-contained scanner, ccleaner type clean-ups, show system information like IP, uptime, free mem and HDD, etc.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ll also create a built-in script runner, so you can pick from a dropdown to run whatever\u00a0script you like, as well as the ability to add new ones.\u00a0 If I create most things as scripts, I should be able to do almost anything &#8230; So I&#8217;m kinda looking forward to releasing a useful diagnostic tool.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I have been a bit busy with work, I have not been working as much on my programs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, good news first, I just got some new sensors as of &#8230; 30 min ago?&nbsp; I&#8217;m really excited to test out the 6 channel spectrometer, but I also got a light and proximity sensor, Garden HAT for the Pi &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/?p=598\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27,26,3],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-project","category-python","category-random","tag-kootnet-sensors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonwarz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}