I blogged about receiving these new LEDs off of eBay a few weeks ago: but it took a few weeks to set up a real test in the house. We attached these LEDs to flat aluminum heat sinks, and I finally got around to testing it on Monday by swinging by the new house after…
Repairing the long tail boat
We built a small boat dock when we first began construction (even before I started this blog) so that we could move the second hand long tail bought we bought to the new house and park it there. (We had been keeping it docked at the local boat shop where we bought it, but I…
Nexus5X phone update
Since I already blogged about getting a new phone, I figured I would blog a bit about getting it working. I ended up staying up until 5AM Friday night to get the phone switched over to CyanogenMod and mostly configured. Here is a photo of a happy new Nexus 5X booting CyanogenMod (note the cute…
Pond circulation pump has been on nonstop for almost a month
Pond circulation pump has been on nonstop for almost a month, and it is still going strong. 🙂 After fixing the problems with the pump motor controller circuit, we left the motor on 24 hours per day and 7 days per week running off of only the 2 solar panels next to it. I am…
View of pond and BaanRimNaam from balcony
Just for the record, I thought I would take a picture of the pond, the chicken coop and BaanRimNaam (in its current state of development) from the balcony of the first house. It still need more trees and plants, but I am quite pleased with how it is coming along.
New phone: the Nexus 5X
I’ve been very happy with my Nexus 5 phone over the past few years, but in the last few weeks, the power button has started getting stuck causing it to go into an infinite boot loop (as if the button was being held down all the time). Some postings on the web have suggested to…
A fully functional 3D printed ball bearing
I recently posted about my first experiments with using PVA to print a water soluble support. I almost immediately began imagining using this to print more complex moving parts. I’ve never printed a single part that contains multiple moving sub parts before, but a ball bearing is a pretty good example of this. So here…
3D printing with a water soluble support material
I’ve been designing and 3D printing parts for a few years now, and one of the limitations that I’ve been working around is in regards to support materials. While it is true that these kinds of extrusion printers can “print in 3D”, the head does need something to push the material down onto. For about…
Circuit breaker box
It seems like it has taken a very long time to get the circuit breaker box wired up. Without much experience at this, every step is a decision followed by a need to buy something new followed by another decision. But after several weeks, we’ve gotten the main circuit breaker box in the first house…
BaanRimNaam update: fiber cement board flooring
Now that the house frame and roofing is in place, the fiber cement board flooring is going in. As with the first house, the fiber cement board helps to create a “termite barrier” between the cement footings on the ground below and the wood that makes up the house up above. I’m sure it isn’t…
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