Category: Projects
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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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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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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 Back Door
With the trip to CO coming very fast, Dad needed to get the new door in as quick as possible. With the help of his brother and mom, he got the old door out and the new door in. Seeing this as an opportunity to learn how to install an exterior door. The new door…
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Dial Cooler Controller Door
For those who have swamp coolers that are controlled by Dial’s electronic thermostats… You may have already experienced that the door has given up the ghost and the hinge tabs have broken off. I have found it is probably due to it being left open and somebody running into it and hyperextending it in all…
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Garage Door Opener all busted up
Several months ago, I replaced the double car garage door’s opener, it wasn’t too hard as I used the existing mounting hardware from the old opener. I followed the instructions, pinned up the new rail and lifted the motor unit to the hangers. I had a working garage door in about 3 hours. But as…
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Let’s Garden 2019
It is warm but still too early to start gardening here in the 505. This year we are trying something new. We built up a new raised garden a while back and now we have grid it out to do “square-foot” gardening… using high density squares, we have strategically picked plants to grow per square…