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Ocean predict
My slides from Ocean predict 2024 symposium. My abstract about forecast verification was accepted and I gave a short – around 10 minutes talk.
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AdaCon 2024
In autumn 2024 I was offered a chance to talk at AdaCon Norway. AdaCon are technical conferences that aim to “promote and empower underrepresented” groups from all backgrounds. The event is held on Ada Lovelace Day, which is the second Tuesday of October every year. The conference atmosphere was very warm, fresh and vibrating with…
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Chicama tests
The winter 2023 was very busy for me, but I managed to book a trip to see the famous Chicama wave in Peru, South America. The wave is famous for the longest unbroken front that can be ridden. This post will be finished in December 2024
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Portugal
University winter break was very short, but that was the only chance for me to test the device in actual ocean. I did not have too many time possibilities as it was now or after spring term exams in June. I bought a plane ticket to Lisbon and just before my flight the departure I…
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University of Oslo
You can learn as much about the waves alone, and at some point to progress you need learn from others. Of course opinions are different but self-thought people who would master some knowledge, like really master are simply rare. I grew curiosity about university courses about oceanography and took me some time to figure out…
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Salt water – what could possibly go wrong?
There is a difference between swell and surf. Surfers know that only some beaches break, and under some conditions. Geeky surfers know that it depends a lot on the bottom: the shape itself vs what the bottom is made of (sand banks, coral reef or rock?, it makes a difference). To make the surfing forecast…
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Getting it all together.
It’s the 25 of July, a rainy Monday, one of those clouded, foggy, rainy days in Oslo, that makes you question what am I doing here. Bitraf is almost empty and silent, it does not feel like summer, but it does not feel like fall either. A month ago I needed to take a break…
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The atmega story
The wave logger required a processing unit to manage the pressure reading, timely organize the reading with a timestamp and finally save them to the memory card. You can think of it as the “CPU”, the “brain” of the sensor. The already 7-year-old project was based on the once very popular ATMEGA 328P MCU, that…
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Bitraf
I was slowly receiving my orders, but at the same time I was still pretty overwhelmed with the whole project and the idea and I knew would need to assemble it all somehow. Some people would warn me that it’s complicated or “ambitious” but I would blissfully try to ignore it. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever…
Surfcast 