Well Folks,
Yesterday I made the trip out to Orere Point to see my old friend Stephen Biddle and family.Him and the wife have six gorgeous kids who are kiwi through and through and I must say that with the averaging down of globalisation being kiwi through and through is dying off. He told me while I was there that I had to go and see "The worlds fastest Indian" so I got up this morning, threw a few cups of tea into me then whipped off to Botany Downs to catch the 10.20 am show and it was a beautiful and soul gratifying movie about the true nature of being a Kiwi. The Garage tinkerer's ode to a dying philosophy and attitude to living a full life in the land of the long white cloud.
Boys own stuff for sure and while the subjects up and running I'll add that yesterday evening before the barbie I went scavenging with three of Steve's kids through the local inorganics splendiforous offerings.
This was culled straight from a Russell Hobbs, made in China, Warehouse coffee maker worth about fifty bucks. But what it actually is is a boiler with a thermostat control and a few outlets for pushing super heated water, steam, through coffee grains and for blowing into milk. The only thing that usually goes wrong with espresso gizmos is the seals, thermostats, and regulators but this only has one thermostat and the seals look fine, so I'll fire it up and see if I can get it working then mount it on some wood and I've got an espesso maker.
And while we were out scavenging Steve's son Quaid saw a couple of broken garden lights with solar panels so we grabbed them and from two we got enough rechargable batteries to make a small light unit. All these things are, and there a handy buch of parts, is a solar panel which charges some batteries during daylight then when a light dependant resistor registers darkness and the resistance across it goes low the current in the charged batteries opens the bases on some transistors which connects the LED to ground and we then have light. I had the multimeter in the car so I showed him how it all worked and this morning I relaced a broken LED, with a white light emitting diode, and put in a better LDR , quicker and with more variance of resistance, and I'll send it in the mail to him to mount as a night light for his late night reading of Harry Potter adventures.
So I guess what I'm trying to say with this is that I feel I went to see the worlds fastest Indian after the right set of circumstances and ended up quite validated in my approach to life.
Yesterday I made the trip out to Orere Point to see my old friend Stephen Biddle and family.Him and the wife have six gorgeous kids who are kiwi through and through and I must say that with the averaging down of globalisation being kiwi through and through is dying off. He told me while I was there that I had to go and see "The worlds fastest Indian" so I got up this morning, threw a few cups of tea into me then whipped off to Botany Downs to catch the 10.20 am show and it was a beautiful and soul gratifying movie about the true nature of being a Kiwi. The Garage tinkerer's ode to a dying philosophy and attitude to living a full life in the land of the long white cloud.
Boys own stuff for sure and while the subjects up and running I'll add that yesterday evening before the barbie I went scavenging with three of Steve's kids through the local inorganics splendiforous offerings.
This was culled straight from a Russell Hobbs, made in China, Warehouse coffee maker worth about fifty bucks. But what it actually is is a boiler with a thermostat control and a few outlets for pushing super heated water, steam, through coffee grains and for blowing into milk. The only thing that usually goes wrong with espresso gizmos is the seals, thermostats, and regulators but this only has one thermostat and the seals look fine, so I'll fire it up and see if I can get it working then mount it on some wood and I've got an espesso maker.
And while we were out scavenging Steve's son Quaid saw a couple of broken garden lights with solar panels so we grabbed them and from two we got enough rechargable batteries to make a small light unit. All these things are, and there a handy buch of parts, is a solar panel which charges some batteries during daylight then when a light dependant resistor registers darkness and the resistance across it goes low the current in the charged batteries opens the bases on some transistors which connects the LED to ground and we then have light. I had the multimeter in the car so I showed him how it all worked and this morning I relaced a broken LED, with a white light emitting diode, and put in a better LDR , quicker and with more variance of resistance, and I'll send it in the mail to him to mount as a night light for his late night reading of Harry Potter adventures. So I guess what I'm trying to say with this is that I feel I went to see the worlds fastest Indian after the right set of circumstances and ended up quite validated in my approach to life.