Our 3 minute pitch presentation was re-worked and fine-tuned this week and in my unbiased opinion it looks awesome! The big event happens tomorrow (Wednesday) at 5:30 pm AST, see
https://voltaeffect.com/cohort/ for links to watch online. We are scheduled to be the 4th of 15 teams presenting, at 5:55 pm.
I had been hoping to get AMOS out on the water this weekend for a bit, but the weather did not really cooperate:
We got over 15 cm of snow on Saturday, May 9!!! There isn't really a spring season in New Brunswick. Just winter, 2nd winter, and then black fly season.
Last week this new little GPS stick arrived:
so I plugged it into the Pi and tried it out. From a cold start it wasn't as fast as advertised. It took 5 minutes to find 4 satellites (instead of the advertised 29 seconds). But this was still quite a bit faster than the 15 minutes that it was sometimes taking for the old GPS unit. The specified average accuracy was 5 m, and a quick backyard test (no I didn't really jump over the fence with AMOS) seemed to confirm this:
It's kind of a scary amount of detail that you can get in this Esri / ArcGIS mapping software... it allows you to zoom in even more than the level of this picture. Good thing I wasn't nude sun-bathing when the satellite took that picture. 😎
