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Category Archives: Building Design
My latest field trip, remote places in Alaska.
17 years of intensive study of Alternative Power Production has made me a skeptic in so many ways. It’s not that there isn’t good equipment and decent investments, it’s that there are so many people who would sell you the wrong thing … Continue reading
Today’s Musings, 12/28/12 an important note?
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
Posted in Building Design, Buyer Beware, DIYer Skills, Earth & Energy, Uncategorized
Tagged Check your compass heading!
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Remote Control Your Home, with a TV Remote
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
PID Control with the Arduino
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
Building a Arduino Based Weather Station
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
Posted in Building Design, Uncategorized, Utterpower's Friends
Tagged arduino, thermostat, weather
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Honolulu Hell, what can we learn from Professor Panos?
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
Monitoring and controlling devices, with an embedded microcontroller and web server.
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
Posted in Building Design, DIYer Generator, Earth & Energy, How Tos, Projects, Submitted Articles
Tagged arduino, diy, microcontroller, webserver
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In Search Of The Best Fuel/KWH ratio
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
The Worst Cabin Design I’ve seen
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