In Collaboration with the Dragons of Eden and Illumination Village, we have created the first revision of a standardized wireless controller for Flame Effects Devices. While it’s targeted at flame effects, it’s also a robust and inexpensive platform for other IoT use cases.
We were in Spain and had Croquetas nearly every day. Everyone had different Croquetas but we especially liked the ones made with a béchamel. All of the recipes I could find where written in a way that seems to follow a laborious production technique. This simplifies things quite a bit The final béchamel was very […]
After the write up on using external drives for the SSD cache, I shared the article with the wonderful community on Reddit for feedback. As a point of order, the intention of this research is to enable the support of an SSD cache. While this does also enable the ability to extend the volume with […]
Read Part Two of this topic: Synology SSD Cache on External Devices – Part 2 – Forced Failure My Synology DS1513+ has been working great for 6 years and was a direct replacement for an old EMC NAS. The EMC was good too but the software support for a home user just wasn’t there. This […]
A very good friend brought up the topic of Colloidal silver. As always, my insomniac tendencies spent far too much time reading on the manufacture of this substance. Many sites suggested using batteries, odd “current limiting diodes” or the purchase devices costing hundreds of dollars. There’s general consensus on the internet that a Constant Current generator […]
eFlow v0.0.1 is complete. Please consider this as Beta software. It has been tested to assure that the functions behave as expected, though boundary tests have not been completed. That will begin in the v0.0.2 firmware. Features Network Admin Mode to set the SSID and IP address Realtime view of process conditions in your reflow oven […]
The San Pedro Cactus is absolutely gorgeous. We have one plant purchased from a succulent greenhouse off Hwy 92 and it’s a pride of our kitchen patio. I’ve seen pictures of these flowering and can’t wait for our San Pedro to flower, though it may take 10-15 years. No one ever said that we were averse to […]
These are known good PID values for appliances around my home. Determining what the proper values are started with auto tuning and then rounded off. The intent is long term stability rather than initial ramp up time. These are proven and implemented with a MYPIN TA4 PID Controller. PID Values If you do try out these […]
This was my first attempt at a Molé and it was an absolute success. I started by looking at the top 10 Molé recipes on the internet, massaging the ingredients to my taste and then writing the steps to simplify the process. This couldn’t be easier and will definitely be done again very soon. Delish! Print Mexicanish […]
eFlow Hardware v0.0.1 eFlow is exceedingly easy to assemble (No part smaller than 0603) and requires no difficult to source components. Circuit Bill of Materials 1 x 10uf 0603 Capacitor (C1) 2 x 1uf 0603 Capacitor (C2, C3) 2 x 0.01uf 0603 Capacitor (C4, C5) 4 x 3.3k ohm 0603 Resistor (R3, R4, R5, R6) […]