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Grilling, Routing, Sanding & Priming

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The speaker kit came with grill frames have rounded corners. There’s a groove routed into them and the speaker cloth is held in place with a string that is pushed into the groove. Six magnets in both the grill and cabinet (invisible as inserted from the inside of the cabinet) hold the grill in place

As I like the rounded corners, and don’t think a log home needs more “wood look” I will not veneer the cabinets, but chose to do some routing;

It gives the speakers a little “softer” look, and solves an issue I had with the corner of 2 panels being slightly damaged during transport of the kit to Ozuye.
After routing and sanding, it is now time for priming;|

Although the white makes a nice contrast with the black speakers and grill, the speakers stand out a lot like this and the white makes them look even bigger than they already are

So the final color will be Onyx black. The first coating will go on later today, after sanding.

 

 

BBQ upgrade

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On April 1st 2017, I first used the Huntington BBQ. Two years ago I replaced the burner cover with Aluminum, as the original one had rusted away. A few weeks ago I was informed that the BBQ had stopped working, as the electrical ignition was broken. As it turned out, it was a little more work that needed to be done; the picture below explains why.

It shows what was left of the burner, ignition , and on the right the aluminum cover. So I ordered a new ignition, a new burner and a new stainless steel flame cover.

The burner is of a better quality than the original with thicker metal and partly stainless steel. The ignition is at the bottom and will ignite both left and right burners.

The flame cover is nice and thick stainless steel, which should last a lot longer. The vent holes will help better heat distribution.

Fully assembled it looks like this. I can’t wait to initiate it with a nice big steak. 🥩

Even Smarter Mirror

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As a developer I had fun making some improvements on the Smart Mirror App I made;

As a metric fan, I decided to display both Imperial and metric units, so I don’t have to do the math in my head. Top left is the outside temperature. Next to it the expected weather for today, followed by a detailed forecast which shows the next 8 hours temperatures, icon for weather, chance of rain, wind direction and speed. It also shows the date and current time. To the right is a weekly forecast with max and min temperatures, a temperature curve per hour and a weather icon.

On the left, below the temperature is the current local wind direction and speed. Under that is the barometer with a trend icon. Below that is the precipitation window, showing current precipitation, the amount of minutes it rained today and how much in the last 1 hours and the total this day. During Saturday’s thunderstorm, which included a rare nearby tornado (25 miles away) the precipitation was several inches in one hour.

On the right below the weekly forecast is the relative humidity, under that the UV index, followed by the Comal county burn ban status.

At the bottom right you can see the last detected lightning strike, with the distance. And the number of strikes the last 1 and 3 hours.

The centered text now rotates between an unlimited amount of custom texts I can set remotely, for instance to provide the wifi password, ask the guests to store the outdoor chair cushions indoors overnight and what ever else I would like to display.

Finally, the red motion sensed icon shows when the passive infra red sensor registers motion.

After a few minutes of no detected motion, the screen switches off, to save energy and preserve the monitor.

In the future I will likely add some new features but for now it works pretty well.