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Very cool! I agree about being a fan of boost. Forced induction is forced fun. 700hp in a Subaru is a blast with the AWD and low weight! Excellent! No worries. In my case I host all of the images on my own domain, and link them here with IMG tags. Some people use other hosting services...

The original idea for doing the driveway lights was driven by this very idea. With individual per element and per direction control it would be easy to simulate the lighting patterns on runways. One consideration however is that I am reasonable visible from the Portland Airport Approach, so a...

Update 98 One other project that is nearly complete has to do with power monitoring. When I designed the electrical system I added ‘monitoring’ panels below all 9 electrical panels. I also added conduit from the electrical panels to these monitoring panels. The concept was to allow me to...

Update 97 - Driveway lights part 1 One big project left to do is the driveway lights. I wanted to do something special with the lights. What I want is for each driveway light to be individually addressable (can be turned on/off/color by a single controller), multi color, and multi...

You are going to like the driveway lights I'm building! Thanks! Thanks! Agree... a little planning and thinking ahead of time can make all the difference. thanks David. I'm an engineer. Albeit that skillset was parleyed into doing and selling a few startups. Exactly! The usual is...

Update 96 [ Moved in! ] Now that we are moved in, time to get some of this infrastructure working. I have conduit to pull wire and fiber to the gate, but while I am working on that I want to have internet access to the gate controller. I have power, so I added a 5Ghz backhaul link to the...

Update 95 [ Now we are mostly caught up! ] After 3+ years of work, I can finally have a seat. There is certainly more to come, but now is a good time to say thank you to everyone here on garage journal for the incredible support, ideas, fixes, improvements, and just being cool to talk to...

Update 94 [ June 2020 ] Perhaps the most important room in the house, the shop is now usable. The floor is mostly done, the tools are in, the lifts are in, and it is ready for some work. I decided to use Gallowtech panels for the vault. They are a really good system that can hold lots of...

Good minds think alike.. I was working on having the RGB lights indicate network traffic... You are going to like the driveway lights!

Update 93 [ June 2020 ] Down in the shop I brought over the cabinets from my old shop which fit well and still look reasonably good. I packed up most of my old shop in these yellow lid bins, and those have started the trip over. They people at home depot gave me a weird look when I said I...

Thanks! Yea, that has generally been my philosophy, at least in the more recent years. It is especially true once you start modifying them as you don't get much value when you sell them... and I like em! Yep, I'll do a separate car post here in just a bit. I have just a few more updates...

Update 92 [ June 2020 ] It is time to start installing the floor tiles in the shop. For the house audio I decided to use a system from HTD (Home Theater Direct), as they have a 12 zone system that supports device integration (Alexa, etc), programmatic control from home automation...

Update 91 [ June 2020 ] Time to start moving stuff in! First time putting the GTR in the new shop! Both GTRs look good! My little Kei truck is perfect for taking the trash cans down to the road. The last deck coating layer is getting close to install. I brought over the first three...

That is a question my wife used to ask, but now just accepts. ;). The reasons are a mix of things. I'm an electrical engineer, software engineer, and network engineer, and my career has been successful in part because I take my expertise as a requirement.. and that means lots and lots of...

Update 90 [ June 2020 ] Audrey’s Bathroom is looking good. The wall opposite of the tile wall is a light pink, but it is hard to tell even if you are in the room. We did some more hydroseeding of the exposed area to reduce the risk of dirt washing away. The Master Bath Glass was...

Cool. Yea I felt pretty lucky to find such a large lot inside the city and forest park. You can see my lot lines in purple on this map.

Yea, I'm in the west hills in Forest Park... so the fire risk is really if Forest Park goes up in flames. Agree on the trees! Besides, tree have accidents sometimes.

Update 89 [ May 2020 ] The Fire riser parts for the sprinkler system came in and are ready to be installed. Some drone shots of how things look now

When I did permitting the fire department came out and had a pretty big list of things I had to do.. The driveway had to have two pullouts for fire trucks to pass, I had to do a full sprinkler system in the house, and I had to use non combustable material for outside surfaces. (Thus the...

Update 88 [ May 2020 ] A critical day for the shop - The lifts are being installed. Given this is the garagejournal, the most important part is the shop! I currently have a Challenger CL10V3, which is a well built US made lift with 10,000 lb capacity. I looked at a bunch of different options...