August 2016

Priorities

Ranking of priorities:

• Teaching preparation
• Ham radio
• Personal projects

Teaching

July preparation and notes: July 2016/Teaching Preparation

Procedure:

• Course syllabus draft
• Course outline draft
• Brainstorm about how to incorporate concepts into hw/exams/other

August course preparation:

• Programming - August 2016/CSE 142

UGR project:

• July notes: July 2016/UGR Project
• Make concrete project plan and writeup
• Create your story, your objective, your scenario

Ham Radio

General Upgrade

Big priority here is passing the general class license exam - see General page for notes

Passed my General 8/5/2016 at Defcon 24

Digital Modes

Main page: Radio/Digital Modes

Working through learning about digital modes. Right now, focusing on how to generate signals - independent of radios. SSTV and PSK.

HackRF

Getting the HackRF working with Kali Linux: Kali/HackRF

Projects

Electronics/Microcontrollers

Raspberry Pi

Still working on the camera project. Eventually, going to outfit this Pi with more sensors.

Notes:

• Camera project notes: RaspberryPi/Timelapse3
• Old camera project notes from July: July 2016/Pi Thing

Tie-ins:

• UGR projects: wifi data, sensor data, interfacing with circuitry
• Get some of this worked out ahead of time: operating system, images, SSH setup, wifi setup, etc.

Programming

Graphene (Nope)

Kicking around the idea of starting back up with Graphene.

Notes on getting Cantera set up: August 2016/Cantera

Once you've got Cantera installed, you need to make sure you can run some simulations for Graphene: August 2016/Cantera Test

More notes/brainstorming on Graphene development: August 2016/Graphene