Little Tree Cafe is quite out of the way. I think you really have to be going there to end up near there. Or at least that is what it feels like to me. It is in Nakhon Pathom and we took Phetkasem Rd to get there. But then you turn off onto Soi Wat…
More synthetic thatch
I posted recently about our choice of synthetic thatch for added thermal insulation and aesthetics on BaanLoiNaam. But it occurred to me that someone out there might be interested in seeing the selection of other possibilities. We ordered the samples from here. They distribute the Palmex products that I posted the video about their fire…
Random pictures of our cats
We lost one of our cats over the past month to a slow and grueling cancer. Thai veterinarians don’t appear to do euthanasia for terminally ill pets. (At least none of the 5-10 in our area that we contacted would.) Something about losing a pet, particularly when it is slowly and painfully, makes one take…
Sleeping under a mosquito net, even without mosquitoes
There are actually surprisingly few mosquitoes on our land. With the large pond, this was a concern originally. But in the end, there seem to be fewer mosquitoes on our new land than there were around (and inside) our old house in a normal housing complex. I suspect this is for three different reasons. First,…
BLDC motor drive circuit success!
I got the chance to test the BLDC driver circuit that we finished recently, and after minimal fixes to the commutation code in the microcontroller, it works! I’m pretty excited about this. 🙂 Here is the setup we used: The 12V car battery at the top is supplying the power for the microcontroller which is…
BaanLoiNaam: Turning the house 90 degrees
Last week, I noticed that the orientation of BaanLoiNaam when the workers were building it had the longer roof facing west. Since BaanLoiNaam is designed for a completely disconnected operation, it will be getting all of the house electricity from solar panels on this roof. And being in the norther hemisphere, the sun is generally…
BaanLoiNaam: one wall completed
We have now finished one of four walls! Just three more to go. 🙂
Back to the BLDC motor drive circuit
The motors we mounted onto the ferry boat are brushless DC (BLDC) motors. Until now, I haven’t actually successfully built a BLDC motor drive circuit. Mostly it is because we’ve been busy with a hundred other things. But now that the motors are mounted on the ferry boat, and we have to start thinking about…
BaanLoiNaam: Walls and windows going up
The walls and windows are starting to go up in BaanLoiNaam. They started by installing just the windows: Then the built the walls around them: Also of interest you’ll notice in some of the above pictures, the white Shera Board for the balcony areas around the house are partially installed: In case you are wondering about…
Random: Sleeping like a dog
Our dog, Builder, taking a nap on the ground
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