Procerand
LightNews LightNews
procerand.bsky.social
Procerand
@procerand.bsky.social
84 followers 78 following 570 posts
Alaskan Game Developer and Software Engineer. Currently working on an automated tree core scanner, Astral Skies, and (rarely) a Lego sorter. (he/him)
https://linktr.ee/procerand
pfp made by @aroma031416.bsky.social‬
Posts Replies Media Videos
procerand.bsky.social
Decided to procrastinate on my game to develop a tool for determining if the Aurora is both overhead and visible. Right now, I have a 30 minute NOAA Aurora forecast visualization implemented, next up is bringing in the weather for determining visibility.

#Aurora #NorthernLights #Alaska
A map of the world with the aurora probability overlaid ontop. A pin is over Fairbanks Alaska with the text "6% chance of Aurora"
November 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
procerand.bsky.social
Got a nice shot of the silicon wafer. I'm waiting on some parts to arrive before I can throw it under Forge in order to take a closer look at the individual circuits on it.
A close up shot of a silicon wafer. It's tinted blue and black with colorful rectangles sprinkled throughout.
October 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
procerand.bsky.social
I got some premium protogen food. On a related note, silicon wafers are surprisingly cheap.
A silicon wafer with a pleasant iridescent sheen being held like you just ordered a crepe at the fair. Except this isn't the fair. It's a house.
October 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
procerand.bsky.social
I got a new webcam camera. I will now use it for everything but a webcam, so enjoy this neat picture I took using it.

#photography #treecore
An artistic photograph of a tree core sample on a tray on a white background
October 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
procerand.bsky.social
Multi sample imaging is now fully integrated into Forge's GUI! This makes it the cheapest and highest resolution multi tree core scanner out there!
#acadamia #biology #treecore #science #lab #automation #dendrochonology
The user interface of FORGE. On the left side consisting of 75% of the screen is an in focus picture of a tree core sample as part of the live video feed of Forge. On the right side is a list of collapsible menus. Starting from the top is the titlebar which says "FORGE" below that is a menu section titled "Control" it contains a variety of buttons for moving and homing the 3D printer that Forge is based upon. In addition there is text for the step size and current X, Y, and Z position. The next section is titled "Automation" and has 3 buttons labelled "Start", "Stop", and "Pause". The next section is labelled "Camera Control" and contains buttons for taking photos, auto focusing, toggling the machine vision on and off, along with setting a filter to filter out hot pixels. The next section is "Sample Management" in this there are buttons labelled "Go to Sample" along with a plus and minus button that select samples 1 through 20. Below that is a scrolling section that contains the list of 20 samples with check boxes to mark which ones to scan, and names for each individual sample.
October 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
procerand.bsky.social
Took a high res image of an M2 Heat Set Insert Tip on Forge. Unfortunately, my tree core image stitching algorithm doesn't work that well on metal so I had to manually stitch the images together. Added an up close of the M as I know bluesky is gonna compress the image a ton.
A picture of an M2 Heat set insert tip that goes on a soldering iron on a black background. I would say it's high res, but bluesky compresses the image too much making it low res The M on the heatset insert tip. It's made of brass and is high res enough to see the texture of the smooth metal.
September 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
procerand.bsky.social
Currently working on integrating automatic sample detection into Forge using machine vision. This is gonna save me so much work as once I finish with this and auto focus, I won't have to manually define the sample bounds anymore or worry about warped samples.
#treerings #treecore #dendrology #lab
The end of a tree core sample with overlaid cyan and amber squares denoting where the sample is. A close up picture of the center of a tree core sample. Wood glue seeps in around the edges.
August 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
procerand.bsky.social
Fun part about making camera GUIs is that you can make everything the color of mountain dew if you so wish. In the meantime, I finished the camera settings menu for FORGE. Now I can move onto programming in multi sample scanning.
#acadamia #treecore #automation #dendrology #lab
The GUI of FORGE. It has a camera settings menu shown in addition to the right side bar and camera view. The camera view is the same yellow green color of mountain dew.
August 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
procerand.bsky.social
I was a bit curious to and after some searching, I found out that apparently Nautilus and molluscs (specifically Pleurotomaria) have convex eyes
Stages of eye complexity in mollusc species Source : https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/74661
August 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
procerand.bsky.social
Got the bins printed for one drawer. I still had some leftover space when I was done.
A sterlite drawer filled with black gridfinity bins filled with various electronic components.
August 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
procerand.bsky.social
The segmentation model by itself right now is terrible at actually separating out the bricks from the background (see attached images). So by using a bounding box we can sort of "guide" the segmentation model into correctly segmenting out the brick from the background.
single brick, auto segmentation with single click segmentation with bounding box segmentation with bounding box segmentation without bounding box
August 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
procerand.bsky.social
My current project this past week was working on making a web interface for manual Lego brick classification for annotating machine learning datasets. I also worked on cleaning up the user interface for Forge a bit more and am in the process of fixing the pause button.
A lego brick under a wire on a desk. The brick is highlighted in red with a green box around it. A pile of Lego on a carpeted floor. Some of the bricks are highlighted in red, some of which is neater than others. Each of the highlighted bricks have a green bounding box surrounding them. A web interface for the manual lego brick classification. At the top is the text Brick Classifier, below is an image of 2 rendered bricks with a red box marked 1 and a blue box marked 2 around each respective brick. Below that is the text "Bounding Boxes (2 Detected Bricks)" which under it has 2 sections, one for each brick. The first brick shows the brick ID, its color, has an option for editing the bounding box, and has the position of the brick in the image. Below that is a section titled "Possible Matches" which shows 2 different matches for the 1st brick, and only 1 match for the 2nd brick.
August 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
procerand.bsky.social
A meme in the format of Jim smiling through office window blinds. Above it is the text, "Localization Waiting To Be Implemented"
August 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
procerand.bsky.social
My lidar sensor finally arrived just in time for me to be unable to play around with it for more than a week. At least I'll be able to play with it for a little while before it has to go in storage for 6ish months.
An image showing the 2D output of a lidar sensor. It's in the form of thousands of dots forming an outline of the room, in addition, there is a white dashed line coming from the lidar sensor's position in the room to the outer edge of the room. At the end of the line there are 3 numbers, the degrees in polar coordinated from the "front" of the sensor the dashed line is, the distance in millimeters, and the number of bad scans. These numbers are 15.0 degrees, 7083 mm, and 85 bad scans.
August 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
procerand.bsky.social
I have decided to start yet another project. In other words, I found out that other machine learning dataset annotation tools don't really fit my need so I'm making my own.
A meme using the bilbo meme template. 1st panel, bilbo is looking down at a ring with the caption "After all. . . Why Not?" 2nd panel, bilbo is facing more forward eyes still looking down and frowning, captioned, "Why shouldn't I start another project?"
July 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
procerand.bsky.social
3D printed sample holders to keep the tree core samples in alignment when scanning them. Next up is implementing multi sample scanning. I would add support for Klipper based systems, but I don't have a 3D printer that runs Klipper.

#treecore #tree #dendrochonology #science
An Ender 3 print bed with 3D printed sample trays clipped on to keep the tree core samples in alignment
July 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
procerand.bsky.social
I've been working on my Lego sorting machine, and Forge's GUI and image stitching algorithm. For the Lego sorting machine, I designed and 3D printed custom sprockets and mounting plates to allow for mounting the sprockets on metal rods and to prepare for the next step of mounting the motor to it.
A conveyor belt that is approximately 3ft long made of Lego, 3D printed parts, 2 metal shafts, and some ball bearings. It sits on a carpeted floor. The belt of the conveyor is made of white plastic, and is supported by a red frame with black 3D printed parts on it. There is a central beam that runs the entire length of it inside the belt that is grey.
June 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
procerand.bsky.social
I think I found it. It's called Pellet Stoneleigh and it's part of Norman Architecture. Unfortunately, I've only been able to find examples of it on church arches. I got the clue from an old book that someone has scanned and posted online.
A church door, on the arches to the sides you can see Pellet Stoneleigh being used Old book
June 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
procerand.bsky.social
I found something similar to the masonry patterns on the walls you've posted, but I feel like it doesn't quite fit entirely since it isn't only the spheres. There's two different techniques that I've been able to find "Egg and Dart" (top of image) and "Bead and Reel"(bottom of image)
An example of both egg and Dart as seen on top, and bead and reel as seen on bottom
June 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
procerand.bsky.social
If you're talking about this, its literally just a cannon ball stuck in a wall.
A cannon ball in a stone wall.
June 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
procerand.bsky.social
Like this right? This is called a Millstone Feature. If you look up In Wall Millstone Feature you should find more pictures.
A stone will with a millstone embedded in it. This is called a Millstone Feature.
June 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
procerand.bsky.social
Accidentally made some abstract art while changing up the image stitching algorithm for the wood samples.
pictures of wood samples stitched together in ways they were never meant to be. Looks as if they're all going towards a singular point, never to return.
June 13, 2025 at 6:25 AM
procerand.bsky.social
Braided cables have always lasted me a long time. If you find yourself putting tension on the cable in one direction consistently, it might be worth looking into angled usb c cables or cables with extended sleeves like the one below. Most USB-IF Certified USB C cables have the extended sleeves.
USB C to USB C cable with an extended sleeve
June 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
procerand.bsky.social
Visited Thunderbird Falls, nice light hike, would do again. I'm thinking about going back again in July, so I can take pictures in the same spots I did 8 years ago in order to compare how the surrounding area eroded as I did noticed the surrounding area has changed.

#Alaska #Erosion #Hiking
A view over a cliff showing the stream coming from Thunderbird Falls Thunderbird Falls as seen from a distance The stream directly coming from the falls. Thunderbird Falls
June 7, 2025 at 5:31 AM
procerand.bsky.social
Visited Bethel, Alaska recently for a game dev expo. Was fun seeing everyone there!
Cargolux plane at the airport Looking over the Kuskokwim river from a porch Bethel, Alaska as seen from a plane an unknown river
June 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM