21 cm Detector: Day 15- June 9

Today we made some progress and found that cron job worked. We were very excited to see that cron job could run motion whenever we wanted after it not working for a couple of days. We high fived for excitement! It doesn't take much to make us happy! Since we got it to work, the web cam got us in action!

We also tested our 21 cm detector to see if it read any waves. This is a picture of what the graph looked like before we tested it so that we could see if there was a change when we turned on the 10.5 giga hertz microwave optic source, as shown below.

I know the picture quality isn't the best, but you can see that the graph did change, so our 21 cm detector is reading something! This was very exciting for us to see the graph change.


Tomorrow we hope to figure out how to send pictures from the raspberry pi to a website. We are planning to go to union on Wednesday to test our 21 cm detector with their telescope. It will be our third visit so we are hoping that the third time's the charm!