As an employee of Daytona State College, I have been working on improving my teaching. One program that I have been accepted to participate in toward that goal is QuESST (Query, Exploration, Service, Scholarship, and Teaching). In this program, we create groups to help each other as we work on some project to improve our courses.
I was accepted into the QuESST program last September for the 2014-2015 school year. I have been working on a project to build, test, and fly a weather balloon to a height of 2km, and then recover the instruments. I have a lot of concerns for the project, but at least I will be learning a lot from the experiment.
The plan is to get a Raspberry Pi <http://www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b-plus/>, and attach temperature, humidity, and pressure sensors. As a bonus, I am also planning to attach a camera to take a video of the flight.
I have made a lot of progress on the balloon. However, I am starting to realize that I need to get myself a little more organized and keep a Journal of my experiences. I can include programming code, instructions, etc., so that if something should go wrong, I have all the information here. That is the goal of this blog...to keep a record of my projects through my career, not just Daytona State College.
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