Being relatively minimalist in our leanings, Praew and I have been enjoying the idea of downsizing our home to a tiny 12 sq meter (130 sq ft) floating house. As mentioned before, we are cheating more than a little bit by moving much of our living space outside. The above is only the inside area…
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…
Trading a bed for a hammock
Back in January, I wrote about how we decided to build our own giant hammock and how we added small spreader bars in order to spread out the hammock a bit so that the sides didn’t come up so high. Well, I always knew our hammock was larger than almost anything else out there, and…
Replanting the “green wall” in the floating house
Last week, we finally had the painter paint the floors in the bathroom of BaanLoiNaam. This is the same guy who did the amazing job on the blue water tank, painting it to blend in with the wooden walls. The floors are made from Shera board, which is meant to be a nice weather resistant…
Mounting the solar panels on BaanLoiNaam
We mounted the solar panels on the roof of BaanLoiNaam a week or two ago: If anything, I think it makes the tiny floating house look kinda cool. Here are some wider shots: (You’ll notice we removed the “green wall” in the bathroom in order to paint the floor.)
Adding a water tank to BaanLoiNaam
Rather than install a water pump to create enough water pressure for sinks, showers, etc., in BaanLoiNaam, we have been exploring using a water tank and letting gravity do the work for us. It will still need a pump to pump the water up to the tank, but that pump can be much smaller and…
BaanLoiNaam: adding a bathroom sink
We mounted up the bathroom sink in BaanLoiNaam. We still don’t have any water connections yet, but I just wanted to see what it would look like with the cattails around it: Things are still a bit dirty from planting the cattails, but I really like the way the sink looks so far. The other…
Seeing if we can culture spirulina
After our tour of Professor Marasri Ruengjitchatchawalya’s algal Biotechnology Lab at KMUTT, I decided to see if we could culture our own spirulina. I haven’t yet gotten a good supply source for the culture, so I figured I would experiment first with some store bought fresh spirulina paste. I have been eating the Skyline brand…
BaanRimNaam kitchen completed
We’ve finished the outdoor kitchen at BaanRimNaam and been using it for a week or two now. It has a sink and counter, UV and carbon water filter under the sink, and an induction stove and toaster oven to do the occasional cooking.
BaanLoiNaam: planting the “green wall”
We went ahead and tried planting some cattails in the planter box in the BaanLoiNaam bathroom: Here is a view from across the pond: These cattails were cut down for transporting, but they can grow up to the roof height. I’m not sure if the one-sided light will be a problem, but we can always…
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