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This post was originally published on September 22, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc   I know what you’re thinking. What happened to Part III? Well, Part III was a trash fire. So I scrapped most of the hardware design and the program and pretty much started from scratch. In the process, I swapped in a better display […]

This post was originally published on September 16, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc   Building on what I mashed together a couple of days ago, I’ve got an updated version of the Little Dipper. And I just named it. Like just now, as I was typing that. Good grief, I’m an idiot. Anyways, I’ve added a virtual […]

This post was originally published on September 14, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc   Strike and dip measurements are a fundamental part of field geology, and typically done by hand with a transit compass.  There are apps out there for mobile devices that will automagically determine the strike and dip of an outcropping, but since the magnetometer is […]