Purchases and notes Prep SD Card You can chose to prep the card with either Pi-Star or WPSD, but Pi-Star no longer pushes out updates. The commands, passwords, interface between the two are similar enough that if you need help from Pi-Start tutorials, most easily passes over to WPSD. The major advantage with WPSD is […]
Getting Into Ham
Ham radio is always something I’ve been interested in just because I love tech, but I didn’t fully commit until this year. I buckled down and just repeated the quizzes on the ham radio app until I was at a high passing level. I took the test in February, 2025 and off I went. My […]
Recipe: Hardwood Pellets in Instant Pot
So, today I tried hardwood pellets in the Instant Pot for the first time. I did 5 cups with approx 7.5 cups water, closer to 8.5. Then, I pressure cooked it on high for 30 minutes, given these pellets are supposed to be sterilized to begin with. I then let cool and added directly to […]
Note: Automatic Timers Timing Rotation
Fighting with heat this past week I realized my smart plugs “circulate” function had stopped working on two of the timers, namely the fresh air exchange and humidifier. Finally got some new ones from Amazon and got it circulating. Fresh air 1 min every four hours and humidity 1 min every 20 min for now […]
DIY: Making a Flowhood
I’m currently waiting to inject liquid culture in the jars I prepped last week and came up on some do-it-yourself flow hood videos. Taking inspiration, I’ve come up with a game plan of my own. Formula Used for Fan Basically, you want to ensure you have enough air to flow through filter, but not disrupt […]
DIY: Making the Jar Lids for Sterlization
This batch, I’m making some plastic lids for my jars with a syringe filter for air exchange and a rubber stopper as an injection port. For the lid itself, I purchased the “regular size” lids, which as the description on Amazon says, fit both the half pint and pint jars I have. I came to […]
Prepping Grain Spawn
My last batch of grain spawn was in pints that I’ll be dividing in half for my baby buckets. As those are almost ready to go into buckets, I want to prep a new batch of true half pints to run my recipe with. Last time I was a bit short of grains using a […]
Pressure Cooker Level Up
Using a pressure cooker was outright scary for me the first time, but with the help of some friends and the reference to this awesome video, I got over my jitters. However, a year on, and it seems I’ve slipped up. I was watching a video on cordyceps and noticed he said he did not […]
Circulation Schedule for Air and Humidity
After much trial and error with mechanical timers, leaving air or humidity on for x min every x hours, I found I couldn’t find the right balance for my Martha. I wanted a finely controlled timer and the solution ended up being cheaper than you think! I purchased “smart plugs”, you can usually find a […]
Tossed the Martha, Got a Tent!
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”7″ gal_title=”Melonfarm Tent”] The Martha was rusted and just a pain in the ass to put back together after the move. I also was tempted by the fact that I could have the lights covered and not bother the room it was in. So, I got a 24x24x48 Melonfarm grow tent! I’m using the […]