Time:
Like space but more personal and precious, although you are free to use it as you wish, it will force you to travel in only one direction. It will be fair to all equally but some will get less than others. Sharing time with someone is the greatest gift you can receive.
Author Archives: Olivier Dehon
CNC Router
It was a long time coming. I purchased this baby from the USA in the early spring ! I probably was one of the first few coming out of the Inventables team. It took me a while to build it … Continue reading
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Digital Manufacturing – Embroidery
We are all makers at heart, building something from scratch is so much more rewarding than purchasing from the Internet. With recent technology enhancement, machines that would have been only available for big companies with deep pockets can be purchased … Continue reading
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Nice juices at Home
After 6.5 years since we have been back from the USA, Manu found the centrifuge machine we bought when we were in Westport ! Been making some very healthy juices with apples, pears, strawberries, bananas etc…. Very healthy for everybody … Continue reading
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Cycling in Corroy-Le-Grand
Went to Belgium during the weekend, spend some long overdue quality time with the family. On the Saturday we did a nice cycle ride (15.5km) in the countryside close to Corroy-le-Grand, which happens to be very very close to the … Continue reading
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Bike Maintenance (HUB)
As I was doing some maintenance of my bicycle, I tried to clean thoroughly the gears cassette. To remove it from the bike you need a special piece of metal that you can source from most bike shops called a … Continue reading
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Oli(ves) and Pancetta Cake
A very easy and very delicious recipe for a savoury cake. This one is made with black olives and pancetta(bacon). The hardest thing in this recipe is the oven time. Making sure it is cooked but still moist. That is … Continue reading
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Cycling with Manu
We just went on a nice Cycle and Running ride in south of France close to Lyon.
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Plants have been delivered
I ordered a few “cooks” plants at couple of months ago from a nursery : Plants for Presents, I had them delivered in a nice box and all the plants look good except the curry leaf plant which is really … Continue reading
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Bamix Mayonnaise
Simple Mayo Ingredients : 1 Egg / 300mml of oil (peanut or other vegetable) Salt / Pepper / Herbs (if wanted) 1 Tablespoon Vinegar / 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice 1 teaspoon Mustard How to Make : Mix all ingredients and … Continue reading
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Mum’s Ham Terrine
Ingredients: 3 Packets of Ham of 130g each (non breaded) 1 Gelatine sachet 1 Chicken stock cube / 1 vegetable stock cube 1 Pack of fine green beans 3 eggs / pepper and spices / Parsley A medium sized terrine … Continue reading
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Update on Hydroponics
Here is a few pictures of the current state of the plants in the garage. The Lemon balm has been growing quite well. However it seems to have lost most of its scent…very disappointing. I need to research the reason … Continue reading
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Preparing Hydroponics for 2015
I have been updating my Hydroponics setup for 2015. I have modified a little the hanging hooks and purchase a new set of propagation lights from Growell. I took some 4X T5 lights as it fits well with the wooden … Continue reading
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Link to Secret Page
Jules and I have created a small webpage to scramble or de-scramble messages that we can send each other by email. The code is simple, and easily found in the source of the page itself. It was just for fun … Continue reading
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Couple of Cycle Ride
Went on a couple of cycling trips today, 15km this morning, then a 2 hours tennis game with Manu in the local tennis club ladder (we lost first set 6/7, 10/12 on tie-break but won second set 6/2, so net … Continue reading
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Nice Koi Fish
It is mid-winter in UK and temperature is hovering around Zero. Freezing during the night and slightly positive during the day. The water in the pond for the Koi carps is not freezing because it is well agitated by the … Continue reading
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Logging Data to a Cloud Server
I am trying to use my Arduino UNO to log some data points for some experiments that I want to do. (A few ideas : tracking the temperature in my Koi pond outside or tracking the speed at which the … Continue reading
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Sunday Ride to burn fat
Today I really enjoyed a local 15km bicycle ride around the house. It is amazing what you can discover locally when you are on a bicycle. There is a lot of place that I would never visit if I did … Continue reading
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Homopolar Motor
So simple to build but hours of fun to “shape” your own version of this little electric homopolar motor. You only need a AA battery, a few Neodymium magnets, and some copper wire. I ordered the magnets on Ebay and … Continue reading
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