I have discovered a brilliant new rain detector method.
So far it has been faultless in detecting rain and heavy dew on my dome.
After about a week of tests I have found that this ingenious little device
shows there is rain about, and so far there have been no false positives.
It is still in the early development stage but I'm hoping to be able to connect a
USB or ASCOM type communication interface and read directly from this
device.
You shouldn't need a USB connection or ASCOM interface - data transfer is what the tentacles without eyes are all about ie. wireless!! And if you look really closely at the slime trail it is, in fact a series of 0's and 1's - thats the weather predictions in binary. Although it looks like the snail leaves the slime behind it, it is in fact just waste from the digital to analog conversion process (which mostly occurs in the shell apparatus) before the data (electronic analog signal) is sent out via the tentacles. The newer models are in fact digital so the slime trail will slowly (though the evolution of the weather predication snail) become a thing of the past as data will be transmitted in binary with no waste, all in the name of decreasing slime-house emissions. Digital Snails will, however, maintain their shells without the DAC apparatus in order to avoid looking too much like slugs. Ick.
Animals are great weather forcasters . I used to have a cat that everytime she washed behind her ears it would rain 48 hours later. Ants are also good forcasters, they always run around like mad before a storm.
Since it is bucketing down here in Melbourne (what's new, I hear to say), I could help you with a steady supply of these devices from my backyard. Let me know, PM or email me. Or.. as a last resort snail mail..
You shouldn't need a USB connection or ASCOM interface - data transfer is what the tentacles without eyes are all about ie. wireless!! And if you look really closely at the slime trail it is, in fact a series of 0's and 1's - thats the weather predictions in binary. Although it looks like the snail leaves the slime behind it, it is in fact just waste from the digital to analog conversion process (which mostly occurs in the shell apparatus) before the data (electronic analog signal) is sent out via the tentacles. The newer models are in fact digital so the slime trail will slowly (though the evolution of the weather predication snail) become a thing of the past as data will be transmitted in binary with no waste, all in the name of decreasing slime-house emissions. Digital Snails will, however, maintain their shells without the DAC apparatus in order to avoid looking too much like slugs. Ick.
Progress with this mysterious device has moved at a snail's pace and
not without some personal cost as well.
Day 1.
Took Kerrie's advice and tried to detect a wireless signal with headphones and
radio tuned to all bands with these devices all over the neighbour's fence.
Day 2.
Wife says neighbours not talking to us anymore. Strange people.
Discovered beer seems to slow down the internal clock until all activity
ceases in the device.
Tried rebooting devices. Tried a cold boot, a warm boot, even
a steel capped boot.....no luck.
Day 3.
My gut feeling is that they are a sort of Enhanced Serial Communications
Asynchronous Rain Gauge Output Transciever.....or ESCARGOT for short.
All speculation of course.
Day 4.
Wife has taken kids and car.
Miss kids dearly.
However must press on.....
Day 3.
My gut feeling is that they are a sort of Enhanced Serial Communications
Asynchronous Rain Gauge Output Transciever.....or ESCARGOT for short.
All speculation of course.
. Ants are also good forcasters, they always run around like mad before a storm.
