Restarting the project
After a year of low activity in the project and a summer with low activity in the sky, at least in my part of the world, the project seems to attract some interest again. The first thing is to try to migrate the few git repositories from GitHub to Codeberg as well as into a monorepo for the observer that will host everything from PCB (KiCAD), firmware (STM32) and software in one place. I have never worked in a project with that layout, so this will be interesting.
Mental comfort-food
On of the reasons this project is getting attention is simply because im stressed, more than usual, and building a lightning tracker has been some kind of mental comfort food for my for many years now. A project that is complex enough to be interesting but at the same completely without obligations and stress, as i don't need the project nor does anybody else need it. It is just for fun!
But being a long but slow running train of thoughts, returning to it always seems to give new insights. The modular idea for the PCB is now gone, better to build a larger PCB than several smaller where sampling and MCU is separated from the analogue front end. This will make it much easier to finalize the PCB and order a first batch to test.
MkDoks
Project page moves to MkDocs as this seems like a good mix of having some blogging and some documentation of the project. I really feel like writing down the overall architecture and ideas behind this project to serve as a help during development.
With this central documentation repository i will have a place to flesh out the project before having to fully start on the other parts like server side software.
Electromagnetic weather
I don't know if this is a reasonable term but i like it, as it sums some various things that has caught my interest over the years. As after lightning there are other cool electromagnetic phenomenons at lower frequencies to monitor, which might be good if i keep using this as mental comfort-food.