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For horticultural crops in my profoundly modest garden I use a nested bucket design. Two generic plastic 5 gallon buckets, like you would get at the hardware store nested. The top bucket has its base perforated with numerous 3/8 inch…
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Irrigating at Low Pressure
Drip systems usually run at (relatively) high pressure. A garden hose is low pressure. Another way to say this is to say that in a garden hose the pressure declines all the way from the spigot to the hose exit.…
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Peppers, the Container Harvest
I have four bucket containers, more on those in a later post. This morning I disposed of my bolted and resinous basil plants. Last plant in container is my peppers, hot as hellfire, colorful as sunset. The buckets worked well…
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Woodworking and 3D Printing
I put off finishing making a wooden box for years. The parts, four panels and a sheet of panel ply have been at my workbench for ages, but I have waited to finish the box because I couldn’t figure out…
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Parabolic Reflector Base for Lichtenberg Figure
I have a cylindrical acrylic Lichtenberg figure I have been displaying for several years on a turned cherry base I made…and never liked. I decided to improve the situation by building a system for more uniform illumination of the entire…
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3D Printed Theodolite and Survey for Stellarium
For years I’ve wanted a theodolite but even used they are not particularly affordable. To support planning sky viewing a wanted to be able to survey the obscuration from buildings and trees in my front and back yards. Thingiverse offered…
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Pi Weather Station with InkyWHAT Health
I made a thing. This thing is–neh, this ensemble of things–is a Raspberry Pi 3 server with attached local sensors and an attached local eInk display. Furthermore this Pi uses an RTL SDR to collect information from my outside sensors…
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Better Filament Dryer
The previous dryer only achieved a peak temperature of about 47C, which is much lower than the recommended 80C from 3devo. I made two upgrades: Wrapped the bucket in a moving blanket for insulation, and then because I was concerned…
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3D Printer Filament Dryer
I built a filament dehydrator following the basic plan on Taulman3D’s site, which I expect to need for both PETG and nylon prints. PLA prints have never been a problem for me here in the high desert. Taulman3D suggests using…
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Paper’s Effect on Fountain Pen Line Widths
I have noticed that when I’m writing scratch notes on the back side of waste printer paper with my fountain pen I get blobby lines. It usually feels difficult to write clearly, especially when I scribe crossing paths in a…