Author: paul
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Pop Up Remodel
The internet can give you great ideas and confidence to do some outrageous projects! or so Dad thinks. Summer of 2020, Mom decide to personalize the pop up camper. The decor is showing age and its style is too generic camper. She found several pictures of other people’s pop up campers and liked a white…
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Rebuilding the Front Yard Valve Box
The front yard developed a leak and talk about a project that scope creeped fast! Dad originally found it while pruning his roses. He looked at the ground and there was standing water higher than the valve box. To troubleshoot the severity of the leak, he turned off the shutoff to see if the leak…
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Workbench
Originally posted January 28, 2019 After moving into Saint Tessy, the third car garage was sanctioned as a work space. There was plenty of space but not a lot of floor space, so Dad decided everything should be on wheels. Original Template The original template/idea was from Do-it-all mobile workbench by David Radtke.http://dc245.4shared.com/doc/_-XOtmea/preview.html. The Family…
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Chocolate Cake
Serves 16 Cake Ingredients 5 Eggs 2 cups sifted Flour 2 cups Sugar 1 cup salted Butter (if unsalted, add 1/2 tsp Salt) 1 cup Buttermilk 1/2 cup Cocoa dissolved in 1/3 cup Hot Water 1 teaspoon Baking Soda 1 tsp of Vanilla Directions Preheat oven to 350°F Grease and flour a 9 x 13-inch…
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3dprinter-miller
A month ago, Mom mentioned that the Parents might be in for a weekend project of cutting foam boards into 60 surfboards. These surfboards will be used to entertain children during the Immanuel Lutheran auction. Dad was not excited to hand cut these surfboards and decided to let his 3dprinter cut them instead. Dad found…
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Motioneye on Rasp 4
Having issues trying to process 3 video streams with a pc, Dad decided to separate the streams and have a Raspberry Pi 4 do the work for each stream. To begin, he first downloaded Raspbian ‘Buster’. He learned in a pilot configuration that he would rather have full control to install anything he needed (e.g.…
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Instant Pot 5-Ingredient Pot Roast
Ingredients 1 3/4 cup Beef Broth 2~3 pounds Beef Chuck Roast (could be frozen) 4~5 medium Russet Potatoes, peeled and quartered 4 Carrots, peeled and sliced (or 20 baby carrots) 1 tablespoon Steak Seasoning Optional: cornstarch for thickening gravy Directions Pour the broth into the bottom of your Instant Pot. If your roast is frozen,…
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Beef Tacos
Taco Seasoning Ingredients For 1 pound of ground beef: 1/2 cup Water 2 tbsp Flour 1 tbsp Chili Powder 1 1/2 tsps Ground Cumin 1/2 tsp Sea Salt 1/2 tsp Black Pepper 1/2 tsp Paprika 1/4 tsp Garlic Powder 1/4 tsp Onion Powder 1/4 tsp Dried Oregano 1/8 tsp Crushed Red Pepper Flakes Taco Meat…
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Swamp Cooler Failure
Yes, that purple line… should not be above the yellow in the summer, when my swamp cooler is suppose to act as a cooler. But before I discuss that, I want to talk about how I began graphing these data points. It all started when dad bought a z-wave sensor that would tell smartthings: motion,…
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New Living Room TV
The old TV decided to go head to head with a three old and his golf ball. Let’s say it didn’t go anywhere I would like. Due to the fear of the same thing happening again The Family bought a cheap Chinese TV only to find out it is pretty good. Meet the new TV…