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Recovering a Water Bottle

April 4, 2025April 4, 2025

I have a soft spot for reusable water bottles. I had my Nalgene for 13 years before it died on a marble floor. I could not resuscitate it with heat or adhesives, and had to replace it. So when I was given a water bottle that clearly had a lot of sentimental value but a…

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Heat Pump Water Heater Installation

April 3, 2025April 3, 2025

In the endless effort to improve the home’s efficiency and reduce contributions to climate change, I took on replacing the water heater with a heat pump water heater. There were a few reasons for this, and the stars aligned to make it happen. There’s a lot of hype about heat pump water heaters. They’re super…

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Bibimbob

March 30, 2025April 2, 2025

Yes, I know it’s actually bibimbap, but I’m Bob, so get over it. This dish usually takes me 3o minutes to prepare, but on your first time you should budget an hour. It’s sort of like a salad on rice, so you can choose which goodies to use. In advance (or first thing), I take…

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Do Treehouses Need Permits?

July 1, 2024July 1, 2024

The short answer, as far as I can tell, is no. And the neighborhood seems surprisingly cool and impressed with it. I looked at the city websites to do some diligence, but the closest I could find was a deck or a shed. Decks have certain accessibility requirements that are not possible in a treehouse,…

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Aurora Borealis in my Backyard!

May 12, 2024May 30, 2024

I mean, it was there, but super hard to see. After a large solar storm, Earth got hit with an unusual number of charged particles that lit up the night sky. When it had reached its peak overhead, I could barely see it and decided to go outside of town to find a less polluted…

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Real Data on the Solar Eclipse

April 8, 2024April 8, 2024

As the 2024 solar eclipse dimmed the United States on April 8, 2024, every solar installation in its path experienced a dip in production. For me, the most exciting part of the eclipse wasn’t the actual eclipse, but rather watching the energy output on my solar panels dip and then rise, not only EXACTLY when…

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The Multiverse of Future Bobs

November 27, 2023November 27, 2023

I have a problem. I spend a lot of time on projects, whether it’s house projects, electronics projects, hobbies, cooking, even in preparation for social events. I research the heck out of everything. And I do it because I’m taking care of the multiverse of future Bobs. It’s exhausting, and I need to stop and…

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Installing Solar

November 15, 2023November 16, 2023

I installed a 4kW solar array.

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The Wacky Dancer Army

September 17, 2023October 6, 2023

I’ve always wanted to create an army of Wacky Dancers. I still have quite a bit of inventory left from when we sold them commercially, and a couple of each color, and I thought it’d be amazing to have a bunch of them dancing down the street in a parade. I posted to the Madison,…

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I learned the Rubik’s Cube

July 7, 2023October 6, 2023

I’ve always known that it’s a matter of learning the algorithm. It’s not that people who can solve it are geniuses, it’s just portrayed that way on TV. I came into one and really wanted to say I knew how to do it. So I went to a tutorial and practiced. Over and over. There…

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Bob Baddeley

I am a computer engineer experienced in developing products from proof of concept through mass production. I want to have a positive impact on the world.

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