Agriculture depends on air, water, and soil — natural resources essential to life — and pollution affects all three. That’s why it’s so critical to have access to a tracking system of released pollutants like the National Pollutant Release Inventory. Agriculture combines science and art to cultivate the soil, produce crops, and raise livestock. From this practise, humans can create products to sustain and enhance their life, such as food, fibres, medicinal plants and more. As such, we come into

A lot has happened in our quest to build a weather station for the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

In my recent adventures as an intern with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, I spent time programming the Raspberry Pi in order to set a very simple, internal website that can be accessed to see the data. The next task was to start thinking about the casing for the weather station we’re building for the museum. My advisor and I decided to design and 3D print our own boxes.

New week, new ideas.

In my first post , I wrote about the first step in my challenge to build a weather station for the Canada Aviation and Space Museum - which was to get the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino communicating. The next step in the project was to connect the weather sensors, and have them output real measurements.

To be honest, I was not completely sure what I would be doing in my internship here at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum. There had been mentions of a cool project, but I really had no idea what I was getting into.

In the late 1800s, Canadian cities were in the process of a major transition due to great population increases, industrialization and a growing middle class. Toronto was no exception, and in terms of its population size and industrial production, was second only to Montreal in these years.