https://stocksnap.io/photo/S059QDGBOG Today Praew and I made a visit to the Mercy Centre in Klong Toey. I’ve heard about the many good things they have been doing for the children (and adults) of Klong Toey for a very long time and finally decided to make an appointment and talk to them. In addition to running dozens of…
Floating house mock-up launched
Having built a mock-up of the floating house just to help visualize the dimensions and the aesthetics on the land, it was time to launch it onto the water. As you can see from the picture above, we floated it on 12x 200L plastic drums. This provides 2400kg of buoyancy against an estimated 150kg of…
Pond air pump is now on solar power
I recently posted about the air pumps we sourced from eBay. We just got the smaller one installed on a steel bracket we welded under the solar panels. The air pump is inside of the little polycarbonate roof extension just to the left of the solar panels. As mentioned before, the air pump is connected…
Installing a water overflow pipe for the pond
Yesterday, K’Tanawat finished digging the trench for the water overflow pipe in the pond. The idea is that there should be a pipe at exactly the height such that if the water level in the pond ever gets over this level, we want the excess to dump out into the canal bordering our land. We…
Random: Dog sitting in water
I was working on the land this evening, and noticed one of the resident dogs was just sitting in the water and watching me. She was there without moving for about 10-20 minutes. The dog on the left side of the picture above is sitting on the sand. But the one on the right is…
Can you 3D print a shoe?
3D printing is a very cool technology that has been around for a while, but only recently made it to consumer pricing levels. With it you can imagine something, design it in a CAD program (such as FreeCAD), and then print it so that you can hold it in your hand a few hours from…
Printing flexible shapes
I posted recently about the flexibility of various plastics including PLA, ABS, and nylon. While I’ve been wanting to play with so called “flex” materials for quite some time, I just received my first spool today from Print3DD.com. They’ve been out-of-stock ever since I bought my printer, but I noticed over the weekend that they…
First floating house mock-up
We are taking our first incremental steps towards designing a floating house. Yesterday, the workers built a very preliminary mock-up structure out of eucalyptus wood and bamboo. Here is how it looks: Note that this is a test of the size, not the shape. So it is a “house like structure” in the size we…
Orange chillis
After finishing our work on the electrical wiring of BaanMae today, Praew and I took a walk around the pond to check up on the progress of various projects and came across two nice chilli pepper plants that seem to have grown on their own from some plants that were planted nearby a number of…
Floating house design update
Back in July I began thinking about how to design a floating house, and wrote up this post with images of a rough design idea. Since then, I have done a lot more thinking and design updates, and even have a name for the project (“BaanLoiNaam”, which means “house floating on water”). First, the 12″…
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