Nice bank?
Currently banking with a big four in Australia, wanna change to non evil bank. Options from 5 minutes googling for below. At the time of writing (Jan 2024), comparethemarket and finder report 6.0% is the …
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Starting a business in Australia
Notes from 2023 on moving from sole trader to a company. Resources https://business.gov.au/planning/new-businesses/starting-a-business-checklist https://www.airtree.vc/open-source-vc/ Should I start a company? A Company (big L) is a legal entity. Like a perso…
TimeLapse Images to Video
Sizes and Storage Images There are 1440 minutes per day. We have 1 minute intervals. We can also make a mp4 video. SD 576p : 0.1MB (compressed 95%, gaussian blur) : 150MB/day: 4MB video SD …
Big Pete and The Champ
Big Pete Pre made wort: 1/2 whiskey wort, 1/2 smoked porter Dry malt: dark, 1kg Yeast: Belgium yeast 2 week ferment Dextrose: 70g Tastes ok on bottling. The Champ Pre made wort: 1/2 whiskey wort, …
Zinken Compact 21 : Repairs
I bought this unit in Brisbane, Australia. This records details in case they are useful to others. Bearings Bearings were mostly stuffed after 30 years. They are metric and available from standard suppliers. Steel sides …
Battery PiZero W, PiJuice Zero and a Camera
Goal Make a really simple timelapse camera. Runs on a Pi and uploads photos when WiFi available Always taking photos and saving. Always trying to upload photos. Wifi setup to act as host or client …
Accht Ale: Targeted
Another take with stronger hops on an excellent beer courtesy of a neighbour. Jan 2020. Ingredients 1.5kg light malt extract (ie. liquid) 2kg malt (dry) 50g Target Hops (bittering) Ale Yeast: 0#4 Safale Yeast 50g …
Tom's Dark Secret
Ingredients Bremer Brewer Superior Dry Ale, Mini-Mash (1kg liquid incl. malt and hopped) 1 kg dark amber malt (dry) 60g cascade 23L water 40g Centennial (dry hop) 40 Mosaic (dry hop) Yeast (from Bremer Kit) …
Accht Ale #2
Two take on an excellent beer courtesy of a neighbour. October 2019. Ingredients 1kg light malt extract (ie. liquid) 2kg malt (dry) 60g Cascade Hops (bittering) Ale Yeast: 0#4 Safale Yeast 60g Cascade Hops (dry …
Accht Ale #1
An excellent beer courtesy of a neighbour. August 2019. Ingredients 1kg light? malt extract (ie. liquid) 2kg malt (dry) 60g Cascade (or Saaz) Hops Ale Yeast: 0#4 Safale Yeast (Bulk Prime): 105g dextrose Method 10L …
Timelapse Cloud
I've got a timelapse camera which takes photos. It's a raspberry pi running linux. I want a website with videos of these timelapse images without manually making them. Here's my working. Approach Storage: AWS S3 …
Streaming Videos with HTML5 and Dash
I've created some timelapse videos. Uploading to YouTube worked, but for the timelapse camera, the making of videos is automatic and served by a cloud/local webserver. Locally, with a 50Mb (few minutes @25fps, 1080p), this …