Getting ready for Winter Storm Stella

I've setup a webcam for folks to watch Winter Storm Stella from my house in Merrimack, NH.

Click on the live stream on here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MarcNo

There is a Raspberry Pi 3 with a picamera pointing out my front window. It is running this script:

raspivid -o - -t 0 -fps 30 -b 6000000  | ffmpeg -re -ar 44100 -ac 2 -acodec pcm_s16le -f s16le -ac 2 -i /dev/zero -f h264 -i - -vcodec copy -acodec aac -ab 128k -g 50 -strict experimental -
f flv rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/AAAA-BBBB-CCCC-DDDD

Where AAAA-BBBB-CCCC-DDDD is my secret YouTube key.

Essentially raspivid is sending the video to ffmpeg which add a silent audio loop and then forwards the flv stream to YouTube's ingestion server.

The info came primarily from:

• ffmpeg Install On Raspbian

• How I made a $50 HD Livestream Camera with a Raspberry Pi and Youtube

Two Rectangles, Vertical Gyrotory Up, Variation III (Chrinitoid @ RPI)

Two Rectangles, Vertical Gyrotory Up, Variation III (Chrinitoid @ RPI)

Originally uploaded by marcn.

I was tripping down memory lane and dug out some photos from RPI. Here is a fairly
good one of the Chrinitoid I took graduation weekend 1986. Okay, it was taken with one of those cheap-ass Kodak Disc cameras, but hey, there aren't may photos of it.

The Chrinitoid has been found!

In this current Renesselaer (still RPI to me!) Alumni magazine, the current location of the George Rickey Chrinitoid has been found!

Tom Payne ('86) tracked it down to Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) found it is on public display in Zurich. It was so cool to watch on windy days. Those huge slabs were the size of a small car and could really get whipping around. Check out the animation on Tom's site.

I wonder how much it would cost to buy it back? Any rich RPI'ers out there?

Hit google for more info on the wonderous Chrinitoid