Bourbon is generally referred to as America’s whiskey. Like other whiskeys, there are certain requirements that must be met for it to be called Bourbon. Must be produced in the United States Must be made from at least 51% corn Must be aged in new charred oak barrels Must be distilled to no more than…
Month 2 – End of first week review
This is sort of a half update since it hasn’t been a full week. I’ve been reading a lot so far and focusing on how whiskey is made. That will be the focus for now. Some of the books I bought on the subject aren’t as detailed as I had hoped. They seem to focus…
February – Whiskey
That’s right. Im spending the month of February learning more about whiskey. Why you ask? Well to be truthful, I was initially hesitant about what people would think if I dedicated a month of learning to alcohol. But the reality is that Im genuinely interested in learning more about it. I like whiskey but I really…
End of month 1 summary
So here we are. Month 1 has come and gone. So how did it go? When I started thinking about how this month went I was initially a little disappointed. There were some electronics ‘basics’ that I still don’t have a firm grasp on which frustrates me a little. However, the more I thought…
Open Garage install and minor updates
Since I finished the prototype this week I decided to actually install it in place of the breadboard version in the garage. I ended up coming up with a poor mans mounting system where I drilled two larger holes through the prototyping board, put nuts on the back, then used other nuts to keep the…
Open Garage hardware prototype v1
Behold. My first actual prototype for my Open Garage project. Not much has changed at this point on the code end of things but the code was updated to account for a few things. Namely, I changed some of the pins I used and also updated how the button worked. Previously, I had one button…
Month 1 – End of fourth week review
Here we are at the end of the last full week of month 1. I made some good progress this week but there were a couple of days where I didnt do any work since I had family in town. I feel pretty good about the hardware components for the remote garage door opener and…
Ahead of myself…
I tried to resist getting ahead of myself – but I just couldn’t. My secret goal (secret because I didn’t want to tell you about if I couldn’t get it done) for this month was to start work on a remote garage door controller. After I started playing around with the nodemcu board I…
Month 1 – End of third week review
Sigh. I forgot to write this again. Oh well – here it is. I still think things are going rather well. However – I did spend a large chunk of this week trying to understand transistors. I really got hung up on the math to calculate the base resistor and I spent days trying to…