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Sunday, January 29, 2023

 From Raspberry Pi Weekly #423 "Watching fish and tiny TVs"

New project …

Watch your fish with a Raspberry Pi camera

… as a "hobbyist," the two recurring things with these AnimalCam projects are the cost of having these things "phone home," My 14MP/1080P Campark game cam can't be reasonably modified, and transmitting underwater; BLE simply hasn't enough power …


The assembled case. Now the camera is protected from the elements, whether it be in a fish tank or outdoors.

Think I'll try one of these new camera modules with a Pico W as my Raspberry Pi 4 is busy ....

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

OA or ocean acidification is yet another environmental concern in aquaculture ....

 OA or ocean acidification is yet another environmental concern in aquaculture, and one we haven't experienced directly at our finish facility.

An oyster hatchery in Oregon has devised a work-around ..  I'm looking forward to this webinar.

… "It was discovered that unusually acidic waters corroded the shells of the microscopic oyster larvae [at Whiskey Creek], causing the larvae and juveniles to die. The hatchery was eventually able to stem the die-offs by altering the chemistry of seawater pumped into their tanks to buffer against the low pH levels."