Recently downloaded the phyphox from F-Droid and thought about this while thinking about what all stuff I could do with it.
Are there any online resources about such stuff?
What all things have you(or people you know, in your locality etc) done along that line?
And not only big thigs, if you're tracking other stuff, please do share your experience on that too.
Edit:
Sharing the github page of the app too:
https://github.com/phyphox/phyphox-android
- Whenever I change something in my coffee setup, I do blind tastings for myself and sometimes others.
- Scrum retrospectives and Kaizens in a way are experiments to see how to improve 🤷♂️
- I regularly answer ACT-Advisor questions to see how I’m doing over time https://stevenchayes.com/tools/
This is a really interesting thread, OP - well done, and thanks for the app recommendation
I track lots of things, all the time; my body composition, performance at specific tasks... As for experiments, I've done a few:
- Tried to see if I could 3D print small channels and fill them with metal using electroplating (couldn't).
- I also made a DIY ultrasound imaging device and tested it. Did actually produce some images, but it wouldn't penetrate very far in tissues.
Of course!
I wanted to test whether a cheap piezo buzzer could be used as a crude ultrasound probe. It worked, so I tried to upgrade it into full-blown ultrasound imaging. The third iteration of that did produce an image, using a piezo buzzer cut in sections, a cheap FPGA, a MCU, custom PCB and mostly 3D printed pieces (acoustic lens, etc.). Aside from the expected low resolution, turned out that it wouldn't image anything beyond about 1 cm.
I did make a fourth iteration of the device, much smaller and theoretically much better. But life happened and I never finished the coding part.
congrats on the excellent project.
how many pieces of the piezo and which frequency of operation did you use?
how did you design/source the acoustic lens design?
seriously well done!!
Cool.
Did you notice any trends from your tracking?
Things that others may also be find useful/intetesting?Well, one thing I've noticed in most measures that involve mental things (mood, performance...) is that lots of things seem to be cyclical. For example, mood is often alternating (more so in my case), but productivity and burnout also tend to repeat predictably as long as the routine doesn't change.
Also, I'm maximally performant in tasks when most stable (good sleep, moderate mood, medication, no drugs...), but maximally productive when in a better mood.
Probably not the answer you are looking for, but I run a ton of math on gaming. Doninos, Warhammer, Magic the Gathering exct. I used to play in a lot of tournaments. Not professional, I do not want that stress. But, I usually placed top 4.
Yeah. All games tend to be games of probability and statistics. Once you figure out how to do the math, then comes testing and experimentations.
