We built a short fence around BaanMae for keeping our actual pet dogs (the ones from our current house) in at night. We don’t normally let them in the house at night, and it would be nice to keep them separate from the pack that took over our land during construction until we are sure…
Motion sensors don’t like acrylic/plexiglass
I thought the walkway lights were ready to install. On the test bench, everything worked fine. But every time we assembled the lights, the motion sensors stopped reacting to motion. For the past few days, we assumed something was getting screwed up in the sensitivity tuning of the PIR sensor. But pommm pondered on Monday…
A nice and modern looking composting toilet
I’ve always been interested in composting toilets. Why produce messy, dirty, nasty, and hazardous raw sewage waste coming out of your house when the alternative is to produce high quality compost soil? Our land doesn’t have a utility sewer around, so we have to process and dispose of sewage on our land anyway, so this…
A giant steel balloon
On the first pontoon pressure test a few days ago, we found that the main leak point was the large inspection tube. The issue was that it was cast iron rather than steel, making the welded seam less perfect than a steel-to-steel weld. But being on the top, it would never be submerged under water in…
Restaurant review: Souffle and Me
Today, Praew and I went on a nice little lunch date into town. Praew had noticed a new restaurant opened up on one of our favorite little eating streets. (See Avanti and Haba Kitchen posts. They are on the same street, practically the same block as this new one.) It is tucked into a side…
Pressure testing the pontoon prototype
The first pontoon was completely done welding so did our first test to see if there are any holes that might leak. The basic idea is that we welded on a few extra connectors to the top corner of the pontoon. The first allows us to screw in a pressure gauge. The second allows us…
Is the Angel Sensor M1 the device I need?
Recently I posted about my first results tinkering with the Angel Sensor M1 I bought. I was pretty happy to get it working to the point that I could read the sensors, but to be honest, I’m not sure this device is really what I was hoping it would be. The step counts seem to only…
Adding water plants into the pond regeneration zone
So the recent rains have helped fill in the pond, and it is finally getting to a height that would allow us to continue planting in the regeneration zone. To review, the principle behind the sand regeneration zone is that water is pumped from pipes under the sand that have small holes in them back…
Flotation foam?
I’ve been reading up on using foam in marine applications for flotation. The basic idea is that if your boat springs a leak and it is made of materials that are heavier than water (like the steel in my pontoons and boat/house frame!) then it will sink. But if you fill the pontoons with a…
Pond water level reaches top of the wall for the first time
I noticed that the water level in the pond reached the top of the sand filter retaining wall (just barely) for the first time last weekend. Here are a few photos:
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