kaedon

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Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] kaedon@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

I'm not claiming it's for sure an evolved trait, but most people do prefer cold water (and hot water) over lukewarm water. Here's a paper if your curious: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41266787

Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] kaedon@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I think the reason we evolved to prefer cold water is because warm water is more likely to be stagnant and contain dangerous pathogens. The cold water of lakes, streams and springs was much safer for our ancestors.

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[–] kaedon@slrpnk.net 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I hope you like indecipherable plots: 1000092287

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Cheap DIY modular synthesizer projects! (m.youtube.com)
 

Found some really neat DIY Eurorack modules made with ESP32 microprocessors. I might try making a few!

What were you wrong about for a long time? How did you realize you were wrong? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] kaedon@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

TIL Tetrachromacy exists in humans.

People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] kaedon@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been running KDE-debian for 1.5 years on my amd framework with no issues (fingerprint sensor worked after installing some software). Can't say anything for nixos though.

What are the scariest games you've played? in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] kaedon@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

Darkwood. Incredible 2d survival horror game.

one rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Nice in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] kaedon@slrpnk.net 16 points 9 months ago

Nice

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Year-round solar water temperature sensor (imgur.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/488623

A small solar power system to run a LoRa water temperature sensor year round. Here's some pretty graphs of the data:

https://www.kaedon.net/mitigomish/watertemp

This is a project that's been running for almost 2 years now. Everything is still working with very little down time! The solar power system is way overpowered for what it's doing, but I wanted to make sure it works through the dark winters.

The temperature sensor is at the bottom of a bucket in the ground, because the water level gets pretty low in the winter and I didn't want the ice to destroy the temperature sensor when it drifts.

Any thoughts or suggestions for improvements are welcome!

Year-round Solar Water Temperature Sensor in c/diy@slrpnk.net
[–] kaedon@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'll definitely add Celsius! It's funny I'm using Kelvin and Celsius internally, but the people it's for are very Fahrenheit dependent.

As for water stratification, it's actually on the shore of a 30ft deep lake! It's just so close to the surface that it doesn't really matter here. I want to try and measure stratification, but I would need a long cable to get far enough out. Do you know of any temperature sensors that would work well over 100ft of cable?

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Year-round Solar Water Temperature Sensor (imgur.com)
 

A small solar power system to run a LoRa water temperature sensor year round. Here's some pretty graphs of the data:

https://www.kaedon.net/mitigomish/watertemp

This is a project that's been running for almost 2 years now. Everything is still working with very little down time! The solar power system is way overpowered for what it's doing, but I wanted to make sure it works through the dark winters.

The temperature sensor is at the bottom of a bucket in the ground, because the water level gets pretty low in the winter and I didn't want the ice to destroy the temperature sensor when it drifts.

Any thoughts or suggestions for improvements are welcome!