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Yea, that pile seems to grow with more cars.

Ha.. good eye! I have a few of those snuck into these pictures..

I too have mostly done work on Japanese cars, but the GTO was something I really like working on. Yea, I was surprised when Racelogic discontinued it! They are hard to find indeed.. and no extras in my stockroom. Thanks! For the software part I am using BlueIris, which supports up to 64...

Ha! It was an interesting install , lots of wires to cut.

A number of people have asked about the cars in the garage, so I’ll talk about a few of them here and there. One of them is my 2006 Pontiac GTO. Back in 2004 Pontiac decided it wanted to revive the GTO name and chose the Holden Monaro as the platform. The Monaro is built in Australia and so...

It does work well for that sort of thing, but if you want to get really good bandwidth over long distance you do really need a pretty clear line of sight.. I think a tower with some HF antennas sounds great! Thanks! The ubiquity gear, especially the wireless stuff, has been really great...

It is fall here, so I have just started using them. So far: Pluses: They produce a pretty good amount of heat, and if you are sitting under them it will certainly warm you up. I placed two units spaced apart such that if you are sitting at the table you are covered, and that works well. I...

Since I still need to pull fiber to the gate I setup a wireless link from the house to the gate. It is about 1000ft, but blocked by forest. The view from the house to the gate location.. the red circle is where the gate radio is, but 1000ft through those trees. The ubiquity radio mounted on...

Speaking of shop and of cars.. I replaced my old Yukon (08 Denali) last week with a new 2021 Suburban Z71. This is the first suburban with an IRS. I'll be curious to see how it drives and tows. I also replaced my wife's Volvo XC90 with a 2021 BMW X5 x45e, which is an interesting car in the...

Hmm... Interesting. If there was a lot of snow, I suspect you may be correct that there will be problems. At my previous house I typically opened the gate if we were going to have snow (given that snow here in Portland is a few day event in most cases). Something to think about!

Here are a few other pictures from inside the house post move in: And a few outside ones

Working in the shop on the driveway lights...

I ended up using the CE ones, which are sold by Home Depot. They are adjustable color temp, and so far they have been working great.. All of my light switches are Homeseer ZWave Dimmers (which I believe are made by GE). So far so good, and the CE Leds dim almost all the way down. Thanks...

Yea, it curves a few times. I have a video of my drone flying down it.. I'll dig that up. Oh yea, christmas is the best excuse for lots of cool lights! K7JBS... FL is indeed a ways, but sometimes the paths just work! Yea, I seem to collect them!

pdate 101 To help get Wifi coverage in the driveway I installed an external AP with a directional antenna that points toward the driveway. I am using Ubiquity ApPs all through the house and this is one of their external models. I also installed a weather station, which is wired into the...

Update 100 Here are the final drone shots now that the house is done. There is still a lot of landscaping left to do, but this is a good point for a few pictures.

Ha! That is a great idea. I like the Tron reference. Since the road up to Skyline is pretty steep, it can be like a rally stage with a hillclimb!

Update 99: Now that I am moved in, I need to work on getting my amateur radio gear setup. I have a vertical butternut (Hf9), but that will require some work to get a location picked out.. in the mean time I am using my line thrower to put up a G5RV between a tree and the house. I ran...

Yea, a combination of geography (trees), and how the driveway curves. Keep in mind in my case the lights are not on the same posts as the power receptacles. On each power pole there will a control box on the back side, and then buried wire to the light posts themselves, which will be evenly...

Great idea with the X. The first car I modified , and what really got me into cars was a 1996 Integra GSR. I bought it new when I was an engineer at Intel. After the first year I installed one of the first Jackson Racing Superchargers for the GSR, which was an Eaton based Supercharger. It...