Ever wondered why plumbers are paid so much?
It’s a difficult job that combines working in horrible conditions with the need for multiple skill sets. But the main reason plumbers are well paid is because they know the arcane secrets of plumbing fittings. It is dangerous, forbidden knowledge, some of which I am about to share. Strap in. We are going through the […]
Chill out man
The journey of creating a proper brewing setup begins (and continues) with various pipes popping off and blasting your face with water, cartoon-style, before you eventually end up with something that works and doesn’t fill your garage with water. The horrible mess in that picture is what I actually tried to use for my first […]
Abusing Public WiFi Access Point Protocols for Fun and Beer Measurement (Raspberry Pi)
This is a little sub-project of what I’ve been working on recently – a hideously over-engineered Raspberry Pi-based system to measure the amount of beer left in the kegs in my keezer. Normally I would simply set up a web server on the Pi and have it on the home network, so I could see […]
The enchanted skip
And lo! did Naich go rummaging in the Cav. skips in search of a bit of metal that would hold his reservoir securely in his chiller box. Praying to Ceilliau Blewog, the goddess of salvage, he dived head first into the metals skip. And in her wisdom Ceilliau Blewog did deliver unto his hand the […]
Beer Hutch!
Young William and James were the luckiest boys in Cambridge. Their father, a brilliant inventor, had built them their very own beer hutch! Fun and adventure was never far away, thanks to their thermostatically heated shelter which was large enough to hold a pressure keg and lots of bottles. Actually, fun and adventure were some […]