Logos would be great in color. Masking took hours. So many hours. Once done masking I put about 4-5 layers down, figuring some extra needed strength was needed seeing it’s all outdoors. At the same time I did some side projects. Speakers colored too. Came out great after a few layers. Anyways. The logos on…
Author: Peter
The Echo Chamber
The walls are speaking to me. This is what I did. Start with a lack of a saw. Had to drill a set of holes to trash the thing in a curvature. To Dremmel the pieces into submission. Also the wall to make room to have the Echo float. Like so. Some left over faux…
Nuimo on deck
Took the Numio base plate apart, added MacGyvery, and some plates I sprayed, for this… Weird hole in the dashboard. With no apparent use. So might as well but some fine German engineering in place instead. Voila. Dashboard Numio dial base.
Tetrising away the excess
One positive aspect that comes with smaller space living, thanks to the forced selectiveness, is the appreciation for quality and things that matter. Followed by a sense of liberation. Less stuff, more fun. All that junk we use once a year-ish went into storage. And that’s a lot of stuff. Just look at that stacking. What…
Outdoor flooring, part 2
Step 2/3 (minus the extras) done. Took forever but it was definitely worth it. What’s next is Dremmeling down the edges to a smooth- and even looking surface. This may take a while since part of it is unscrewing things under the platform. Have to get into the water to unscrew things, and even then…
Echo, shut up
Preordered the Echo dot. The dot is the newest rendition of Amazon’s line of voice controllers. Will hook this up to the stereo, hue and what else that may come around. For now I’ve only tried it with the Hues and it works fairly well. Some hickups. After this I’m going to train it to…
Günther doesn’t care
Home is where, and what, you make it. If you want to sit in the food bowl when drinking water then that’s what you do. We can all learn from this hamster. Speaking of hamsters – we are renaming the boat. It’ll be named after our late hamster Bamse. In due time. There’s a whole…
Kegg excersices
Stumbled upon mini kegs when we were checking out some local breweries. I’ve yet to find something I like, beer wise, but I’ve a crow-like relationship to things in metal. They only had branded kegs (until iI realized Amazon after purchasing it) which, it turns out, is blasphemy if refilling the keg at other breweries. …
Socket to em
The lamps in the boats are about as bland as they come. How I wish it was as simple as simply switching a lightbulb, but if you’ve read some posts already you know that there is precisely nothing as simple as switching out a bulb. An example of how it’s not as simple as switching…
Pi, part 1
Initially I planned using the Pi as a low-energy bridge for the antenna and home network, plus a NAS. Also to talk with the Nuimo. However we got more corded things (looking at you, Hue and TV), and that Spotify isn’t Pi friendly (and I’m temporary tired of temporary workarounds), I went with a regular router for…
Scenic Senic
Senic makes Nuimo. I had the Nuimo in mind for the boat months ago, so got it when it was a Kickstarted and patiently waited until it was made. And here it is. Here it is freaking out: Works well. But will have to get back to this guy as the home system isn’t perfectly…
This is where we nest
New, good CO monitors run for about 20$. But we want to be smart about it so we payed 100$. Yeah, you heard me. So what’s smart about it besides the look? It talks in a nice soothing voice instead of a loud beepy shout. It tells me to worry about my cooking on the…