Tests of the sensor and GPS logging are coming on well. After meeting up with the Lanternhouse knitting group last tuesday I’m keen to pursue wool as both a means of representation of the data gathered during walking, yet more more excited about the social structure of the knitting group as means of discussion and working with the ideas of interest and the data gathered. My knitting is still terrible but slowly getting better with the help of this blog: http://www.bellaceti.com/blog/2009/03/how-to-cast-on/ Below is some documentation of both of these things. The test walk in North Shields and Tynemouth resulted in me being caught out in a storm on the sea front, otherwise this walk would have been more circular. For now this is just logging ambient light for testing purposes while I await the arrival of the gas sensors from across the ocean.
A quick gnuplot of the sensor data against location can be found here: http://willschrimshaw.net/inv/plot.html

Potential code to be developed: conversion of gps log to knitting pattern/code such as:

1st Row: (Yo, k1) 3 times
2nd Row: Yo, p5, k1
3rd Row: Yo, p1, k2, yo, k1, yo, k2, p1
4th Row: Yo, k1, p7, k2
5th Row: Yo, p2, k3, yo, k1, yo, k3, p2
6th Row: Yo, k2, p9, k3
7th Row: Yo, p3, k4, yo, k1, yo, k4, p3
8th Row: Yo, k3, p11, k4
9th Row: Yo, p4, k5, yo, k1, yo, k5, p4
10th Row: Yo, k4, p13, k5
11th row: Yo, p5, k6, yo, k1, yo, k6, p5
12th Row: Yo, k5, p15, k6
13th Row: Yo, p6, ssk, k11, k2tog, p6
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