I ordered a new coffee grinder from Lazada (think Amazon for Southeast Asia) in order to grind the flaxseed I eat for breakfast into meal. It is much easier to source whole flaxseed here than flaxseed meal, and a coffee grinder seems to work just fine for grinding it up. And this one “Perfectly fits…
Trying to eat our home grown sunflower seeds
After drying the sunflowers for a few days, I finally got the chance to try eating the seeds. I normally eat almonds and walnuts raw (but store bought) in my breakfast, so I figured I would try eating our home grown organic sunflower seeds raw too. Well, it didn’t work so well. The seeds were…
How to figure out the wiring of any BLDC motor quickly and easily (technical)
We had some breakthroughs with BLDC motor drive control last week. I’ll try to summarize it here as much for my own records as for anyone else. So feel free to skip if you aren’t interested. But if you are, please read on. In particular, I came up with a very easy way to figure…
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…
Returning to finish the kitchen building
Praew’s standalone dream kitchen has been on hold after doing the pilings, floor and roof for a month or two now while the workers were finishing the walls, windows and doors of BaanLoiNaam. But now that BaanLoiNaam is nearing completion, we ordered the wood and now we are shifting a few workers over to begin…
Drying sunflower seeds
We planted sunflowers mostly for decorative purposes back in November… And as sunflowers do, they grew up, and then died out. So of course we decided to dry out the seeds and see if we can eat them… I’ll let you know once we try tasting them.
Adding worms to the composting toilet in BaanRimNaam
Back in August before we started building the composting toilet in BaanRimNaam, I mentioned that the plans we bought were designed for vermicomposting (composting with worms). But when we moved in around New Year’s I decided to just start using the toilet without the worms. Best case is that it would compost, but more slowly….
Slow but steady progress on the BLDC motor drive circuit [technical]
Things have been going a bit slowly on building the BLDC drive circuit for the ferry boat propeller motors. Mostly this has been due to being busy with other things. But nonetheless we’ve been making slow but steady progress over the past few weeks. One recent big help was the purchase of a new oscilloscope….
Bringing the cats home
We’ve been moved in for a number of weeks now, but we finally brought the cats over from the old house last weekend. As any cat owner knows, cats are very different from dogs. When it comes to moving them, dogs are like “cool! vacation!” But cats are like “hey, where the hell are you…
Adding small spreader bars on the hammock
I added very small 30cm spreader bars to our giant sleeping hammock, and it worked like a charm! As mentioned in my previous post on the subject, the huge width of the hammock causes the edges to curl up and somewhat cocoon (or suffocate?) the occupant. Additionally, this height on the sides makes it difficult…
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