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World’s Smallest House

Shawn — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:31:14 +0000

How about a 96 square foot house?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/04/27/carollloyd.DTL

Doors, Doors And More Doors…

Shawn — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:24:17 +0000

Went over all the doors, door finishes and door hardware for the house today… I never knew there were so many options for door. Glad that’s over.

Solar Power Panels

Shawn — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:45:49 +0000

Well, I decided a long time ago that it would be neat to put a big solar voltaic system at my new place and try to generate 100% of the electricity needed for the house (and servers and everything else I use since I work from home).

So I ended up going with a system that will be able to generate 42.8kW of power (35.7kW will be the “practical” rating for it), which consists of 252 panels (each panel can general 170 watts of power). The idea is to generate more electricity than you need during the day (running the SDG&E meter backwards), then draw on it at night.

I hope the system has some sort of SNMP probing ability… would be cool to pull up a graph of power output over time.

We Have A Foundation/Slab

Shawn — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:53:45 +0000

The foundation/slab was (finally) poured for the house today, so I figure I’ll post another time lapse video (it ends this afternoon).

Sorry the quality is lame and it’s little, YouTube downsamples the video, not me… To give you an idea of how the “real” video looks, this is the last frame of the video:

Lots Of Conduit

Shawn — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 23:48:44 +0000

It’s hard to see, since this is just one area, and it’s all buried anyway, but there is lots and lots of conduit under the house (the grey pipes). That way you can run wires or whatever else to different locations in the house as needed in the future (for example maybe you need some super-duper fiber-optic cable to run your holographic TV in 15 years). Just feed the wire to the pipe that goes to the family room TV area, and you are done (no ripping up walls or floors).

BTW, it looks like we will be (finally) pouring the slab/foundation for the main house on Tuesday.

Wolf Stove – DF606DG

Shawn — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:49:15 +0000

I picked appliances for the house a few weeks ago, and I ended up with a pretty cool stove (I ended up with the 6 burner, 22″ griddle configuration).

The best part about it is this:

Certified by Star-K to meet religious regulations

Huh? Must be a Jewish/kosher thing I’m thinking… {shrug}

http://subzero.com/wolf/description.asp?category=dual%20fuel%20ranges&id=30

This will be great because I should be able to cook up some bad ass Top Ramen with this thing.

Alien In My Dome

Shawn — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:05:08 +0000

There appears to be an alien in the camera dome at the construction site. Great… now I need to go there, climb up there, clean it out and hopefully not get some alien egg implanted in my chest.

I Have A Basement

Shawn — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:29:31 +0000

This is a live webcam shot (well live as of this posting) of my basement. The only reason I think it’s cool is because the three important sides are backfilled now, so we can finally start digging the footings for the main house (the front side isn’t backfilled yet because the dirt from the footings will be put in there, and there’s nothing above it, so there’s no slab there).

Plumbing Fixtures

Shawn — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:46:18 +0000

I met with my interior designer today and I actually got *all* the plumbing fixtures picked out for the house. Faucets, shower stuff, toilets, sinks, bathtubs, etc.

There’s a lot of sinks… so it’s not as easy as it sounds. Just glad that’s over.

Basement Construction Time Lapse

Shawn — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:59:19 +0000

I threw together a time lapse of the basement being built. The end of it is today, when they took all the forms off the basement walls and we actually have freestanding concrete walls. Now for the waterproofing of the walls…

The movie runs through 4 hours per second. The resolution is a bit lame, but hey… can’t keep YouTube from down sampling it.

1.5 Million Pounds Of Concrete

Shawn — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:38:42 +0000

There ended up being about 750 tons of concrete poured/sprayed today at the construction site for the basement walls and pool.

That’s a lot of concrete… So much that you could give yourself a hernia trying to lift the pool or basement…

Concrete In Basement and Pool

Shawn — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:45:34 +0000

Today we are getting concrete poured in the basement walls as well as concrete sprayed into the pool. I’m guessing it’s pretty much just going to be a zillion concrete trucks coming and going all day (it looks like they do 4 trucks at a time… 2 for basement and 2 for pool).

Shot from web cam:

Cellular Signal Amplifier

Shawn — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:24:01 +0000

More than anything, this is just a bookmark for myself. That way when/if I need it at a later date, I remember what it was!

These units are Single Band which means there are 3 separate units to serve the different carriers. Each WorkBase can fill up to 40,000 square feet and lets up to 68 users (per unit) have full reception at all times. WorkBase is optimal for warehouse stores, grocery stores, cruise ships and office buildings.

http://www.signalwide.com/workbase.html

12′ Ceilings Are High

Shawn — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:59:59 +0000

I didn’t realize how tall 12 foot ceilings are until I walked around the guest house today (since it now has trusses it’s easy to gauge). They are pretty high up there.

The nice thing about it is we can setup some interesting stuff indoors… like a climbing wall, base jumping, hang gliding indoors, etc.

…Unless It’s Night Time

Shawn — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:52:59 +0000

It doesn’t work so well inside a dome at night with the infrared illuminator on.

If 2Wire’s crappy router would let me remotely configure it, maybe I could open up the ports on the firewall so I could get into the camera configuration…. but no, I have to drive there. So dumb.