Category Archives: Building Design

Today’s Musings, 12/28/12 an important note?

Posted on December 28, 2012 by George B.

As we attempt to plan our futures, we need stick our finger in the air! “In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose—a productive purpose… A central purpose serves to integrate all the … Continue reading →

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Remote Control Your Home, with a TV Remote

Posted on December 15, 2012 by KK4HFJ

I wanted the ability to use a TV Remote to turn on and dim lights, change the thermostat for heating and cooling, even lock/unlock a door. Of course, everything looks like an Arduino project for me, so I scavenged the … Continue reading →

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PID Control with the Arduino

Posted on December 12, 2012 by KK4HFJ

There are times when a feedback loop is helpful to prevent overshoot or wild oscillations of a process, whether temperature, motion, or other type of system. A common solution is a proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller). With this Arduino solution, you tell … Continue reading →

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Building a Arduino Based Weather Station

Posted on December 6, 2012 by KK4HFJ

One of our interests is weather monitoring. It seems like a natural thing for a ham radio operator to be interested in, so we applied our micro-controller expertise and came up with the following project. In it’s current version, it … Continue reading →

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Honolulu Hell, what can we learn from Professor Panos?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by George B.

Of course this post is for the DIYer community, if you are a typical Low Information Voter ‘LIV’, this is not for you, move along to that free energy page, maybe order a Hojo Generator, invest in that big air … Continue reading →

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Monitoring and controlling devices, with an embedded microcontroller and web server.

Posted on November 25, 2012 by KK4HFJ

Introduction by George B. Why I think you need consider making the time for Steve’s project?  As we study small generators, we learn that one of the larger mistakes we can make is buying one too big. I use the … Continue reading →

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In Search Of The Best Fuel/KWH ratio

Posted on August 11, 2012 by George B.

FOOD FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT IS ALL AROUND US.  A look at a newer engine from China now on the assembly line.  I have been getting calls from a certain off girder who has become obsessed with the idea of fitting a … Continue reading →

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The Worst Cabin Design I’ve seen

Posted on July 15, 2012 by George B.

July 15th 2012, another trip to the Cowiche Mountains I’m back from a wonderful four day stay in the Mountains some 30 miles due west of Yakima. Four wonderful and peaceful days used to reflect on lessons learned, and mistakes … Continue reading →

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Cascade Mountains, DIY Small Solar

Posted on July 2, 2012 by George B.

Why we considered Solar for our off grid place in the Central Cascades.         In the back ground is the power house, to the right, the Listerpowered pump house.    It was a good many years ago … Continue reading →

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Predicting Epic Failures at Alamosa, another Green boondoggle

Posted on June 9, 2012 by George B.

Got no time to red the whole article? then skip to the blue print! Continue reading →

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