Made a gift for House Warming of Friends.
A cutting tray for the days we have a nice pice of meat to eat straight off the BBQ.
It is made from 12(ish) pieces of 58cm X 3CM American Red Oak.
Each pieces is glued to each other using a Festool Domino system.
Tray is routed all around to allow easy pick-up.
Then I made a design of a Beef and some Citation at the bottom saying in French :
“The one that takes the habit of eating in your house, feels hungry as soon as he sees you”
Then Laser etched the whole lot on 20% Power.
Also made a tray to protect table from hot plates, with a few corks from wine we have drunk together.
I hope they enjoy this for a long time and look forward eating at their new place, I am already hungry…
[Initial Post 4th of feb 2012] Trying to make French bread for 3 weekends in a row now…Objective : Make a French Baguette / Crunchy / Medium sized holes like this.
So Far :
Made 4 Baguettes, mostly nice, last one is crunchy and has small holes, taste is good.
Current Method :
Latest method involves leaving the dough rise overnight in the fridge, this is the best way so far. See this picture below.
300g – Plain White Very Strong Flour
A bowl of warm water (60% to 70% of Flour weight ) with 2 Table Spoons of Active Dry Yeast + 1 Tea Spoon of Sugar
+ salt as you like. (add the salt last to avoid killing the yeast). Also, found out that the room temperature+water temperature+water temperature should add-up to 54 degrees celsius…not sure if this is really needed…came from a Lyon bread maker.
Knead with Kenwood Mixer – 6 Minutes until elastic ball.
Let Rest in Mixer for 2 minutes
Knead with Mixer for an
other 4 minutes.
“Put in a bowl and Cover with Cling Film, put in fridge overnight”.
Knead again, for a few minutes using this method.Bread Making
Let Rise for an other hour with a cloth on top. (back in Oven- 30 Celsius)
Heat-up another oven to 250 Celsius, throw a small quantity of water in oven to create steam (approx a quart of a glass).
Wet bread with water using a small silicone brush, put bread in oven for 15 minutes at 250, then reduce to 180 until it is cooked. (testing with knife)
When ready, take out and let rest of wire-rack. (So that it goes crunchy)
Enjoy with Butter…
Only just a few degrees over Zero this morning for Jules training at HOAC.
Still Jules goes with a big smile on his face….
The link between Instagram and my blog is now working quite well.
Not 100% sure yet how it all works but pictures seems to make their way to my blog OK.
Then I can edit at leisure…
I have been trying to Program some simple applications with my MAC OSX machine and Python but using a modern GUI feel.
I found Python to be easy syntax and wanted a similarly easy interface building tool.
I found that QT from the Nokia site would do that but it was a long process to get it all installed properly.
Python comes pre-installed on OSX so that bit is straight forward.
The install of QT is a bit more complicated. Need to download the SDK form Nokia but as well the Libraries Package from a second place on the Nika Website. Then you need to run the install procedures of the various packages including SIP and pyQT. (Documentation is in the downloaded directories).
Then you have to change the configuration of the QT Creator to allow for compiling on QT even if really you will only use the “Design” part for the GUI.
update configuration of project Clic Projects on left of main window Go to build settings / build steps Clic Details setting to add "-spec macx-g++" in the additional argument rebuild everything so that config change is applied
Once the GUI is designed on QT, save the .ui file, then “process” the file with the tool :
then you can run the pyic4 program to convert the .ui file into a full python program.
pyuic4 -x mainwindow.ui -o program.py
Here is a quick video describing how its done : Here.
Just got it working now on my machine and managed to get a ridiculously simple running, now need to find the time to learn the language etc…
Have been trying for weeks to get QT Creator to work on my Mac System.
I want to program in Python and build easy user interfaces with QT Designer.
Currently struggling with :
Got Python 2.7 working
Got Qt Creator working
Can’t get a build to run…
So much time to achieve nothing !
I love my Arduino electronics.
