A large part of the lab’s work is in making connections between ourselves here and the extraterrestrial space out there. We’ve started building specialized antennas for receiving the signals of low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites. The first kind of antenna we decided to build was a quadrifilar helix antenna (QFH) for picking up the signals from the NOAA 15, 18, and 19, and METEOR-M 2 weather satellites launched and maintained by the United States and Russia, respectively. Right now the antenna is rather…
I never quite understood Docker until I had to start building a deep learning box—more on that in another post. But Docker allows one to create quick-starting “virtual machines” that encapsulate all necessary libraries and packages for specific tasks. So of course there are Docker containers for working with the Pebble SDK. The best one I’ve found is kipters/docker-pebble-dev. To install, just do docker pull kipters/docker-pebble-dev and read the documentation on github to see how to use.