My coworker gave us these water lilies from her home town a few months ago. We didn’t think it would survive, but it thrived. This week it finally flowered.
Storing the pond ladder when not in use
Most of the time, I won’t be using the ladder to climb down from the balcony of BaanLoiNaam (the floating house) into the pond. And when it is just sitting in the water, over time it seems to get pretty dirty. So my intention from the beginning was to be able to remove it from…
Driving an electric ferry boat around the pond
A few weeks ago, I finally got around to testing the thrusters on the ferry boat. These are very small thrusters meant for a small ROV (remote operated vehicle), but I don’t intend the ferry boat to go very fast. First we mounted a simple arcade joystick into a box with a microcontroller and connected…
Using a Secchi disk to measure the clarity of pond water
Here is another project I’ve had on my to-do list for a while that I finally got around to. The Secchi disk is a tool that can be used to measure water clarity. It can be easily made yourself, so we made one out of corrugated plastic futureboard and black waterproof electrical tape and a length…
Adding a ladder down into the pond from the floating house
I do sometimes enjoy a dip in the pond to relax and get some exercise swimming. (I will enjoy it more, I think, after I have a chance to test the pond water to make sure everything is safe, but I’m still working on that.) And what better place to enter the pond from than…
Pond water level nearly full
About two months back I wrote about how the water level in the pond had dropped substantially from its high after the rainy season last year. Well it has been raining quite a bit over the last month and the pond is back to nearly full again. It is hard to see the overflow pipe…
Pond update: measuring the water level drop
We are coming to the end of the dry season now. Last week we have had the first real rains of the year, so I figured it was a good time to evaluate how low has the water level in the pond dropped. This may provide an idea of what to expect in future years….
ROV Thrusters
We’ve stalled a bit on the ferry boat due to the electronics. The BLDC controllers we’ve been tinkering with seem to work, but still have some kinks to work out. And on the list of all the projects I’ve been working on, this has been down quite a ways and isn’t getting as much attention…
Building the shower floor in the floating house
We designed a simple wooden structure to form the floor of the shower in BaanLoiNaam and the workers finished building it last week. I’m pretty surprised how nice the wood came out. The concept of this shower is a little unusual. Being a floating house that is designed to be mobile, there are no sewage…
Sliding doors on a floating house
Now that the walls are done on BaanLoiNaam, the workers are working on the doors. I barely need to interact with them on this now since it is almost exactly the same design as the sliding doors on BaanMae and BaanRimNaam. They have finished one of four door panels and mounted it on rails already:…
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