If you are an experimenter like me, you try all kinds of crazy things. More often than not, you will have more than one experiment going on at a time. The nice thing about the Raspberry Pi is that it is so easy to change out one to do a different experiment with by simply replacing the SD Card. This also means that sometimes you loose your place in what you were doing before and trying to remember something that you were working on two weeks ago becomes a challenge. Answer to the dilemma, write what you do down. I am speaking of keeping a notebook or a journal or an online notepad of some sort. Anything that will give you the chance to regain your thoughts on where you were six months ago on a project. Obviously this means that you need to be able to put down more than 160 characters at a time. Think of the things you can do:
1. you can record what your ultimate goal is and what path you hope to use to accomplish that goal
2. you can record what prompted you to try this very thing
3. you can record what things you learned, and what resources you used (like SD Card numbers)
4. you can record if this particular time you were successful or not - even Thomas Edison failed over a 1000 times before he got the right combination of components to make a lightbulb, his notebooks were very handy to keep him from redoing what already didn't work
5. you can record what you hope to do in the next iteration
6. if you become famous the notes are very valuable for your memoirs and if you patent something the notes will hold up in a court of law
This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
