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    Home » Podcast

    Arduino Controllers, Pinball, & Burritos GF Radio

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 3 Comments

    Mike and Eric talk about how to use arduino controllers in pinball and beehives, how easy it is  to use them and program them. Repairing a shower mixing valve without cutting a  hole in the wall, be sure to turn off the water before you replace the mixing valve cartridge. Eric did put in a new shower mixing valve at his parents house,  the video will be posted soon. Mike talks about being overwhelmed with success of a bootstrapped pinball project, and how what was once great is now a ball and chain. Eric tells of how one of his beehives swarmed and what he did to try to capture the beehive swarm. Lacking a tall ladder to retrieve the swarm  cluster, swarm traps are brought out. Did it work? listen and learn.

     

     

    photo by ppdigital

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    1. @rhkennerly

      July 17, 2012 at 3:14 pm

      Sorry I missed the taping. But yes, I do go to bed early when I need to be in the greenhouse by 5 am. Otherwise, I'm laboring in the heat under plastic during the part of the day. A bonus of being there so early is that I can handpick the tomato worms and slugs that are still out at daylight.

      Weighing hives. There may be more market than you thought for the electronic system, Mike.

      I'm a "citizen scientist" in the NASA Honey Bee Net project.
      http://honeybeenet.gsfc.nasa.gov/

      I've got my big hive on an old farm grain store scale. I submit an xls spreadsheet logging the weight.

      Satellite images show, but the bees data confirms, that "spring" has been advancing about 6 hours per year for the last decade. This has a lot of implications for migrating animals that arrive "late" for the bloom and are dependent on a particular species to survive. This also works the other way, plants are blooming earlier than bugs are hatching out to pollenate them.

      Timing is everything.

      @rhkennerly

    2. @rhkennerly

      July 18, 2012 at 4:44 am

      Oh, data logging with CSV output would be great!

    3. DrFood

      July 24, 2012 at 6:43 pm

      Remember that swarming is the action of a happy and confident hive, so look on the bright side-- your bees are happy and confident! It is basically how they do the "be fruitful and multiply" thing.

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