Welcome to the new piettes.com!
Welcome to the new piettes.com website! Please bear with me while I update things to get the same functionality that I had before. I had originally written the old website sometime in 2001, and I had...
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Dreamhost
First of all, this sounds like an ad, but for people that don’t know how to start their own websites, it really is useful information. I just wanted to mention that I really like using DreamHost for my...
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Beginning Beekeeping
I’m well into my second year of beekeeping- In fact, I’m almost done with my second year! I’ve brought in and bottled a quarter of the harvest so far, there should be at least 90 pounds more to bring...
View ArticleSelling Honey at the Farmer’s Market
Last evening my family and I went to the Washington Farmer’s Market to sell some honey. The event starts at exactly 5:00 on Thursdays at the Washington square, and of course we were running behind (who...
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Breaking Even
Today is an auspicious day: The Piette Honey factory has broken even! Starting from January 1st, 2012, I have a net positive $18. A big shout-out to John Zehms and Katie Amaya, without whom this...
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Hacking Alexa, the new Amazon Echo
I heard about the new Amazon Echo and immediately submitted my request. I got an invitation a few weeks later and Alexa (the Echo’s name) arrived the day before we were having all of our friends over...
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The Amazon Echo API
UPDATE: Check out the new Echo forum at http://www.piettes.com/echo I love my Amazon Echo! But what else can I do with it? First of all, I’m not a web developer, so go easy on me, but also help me...
View ArticleA New Amazon Echo Forum!
Rather than trying to keep people updated on my progress with an API and etc. here in a blog format, I’ve started an Amazon Echo forum here at: http://www.piettes.com/echo Please join in on the...
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Solar Panel Datalogging with Raspberry PI and ADS1115
So I’ve had a 400W solar panel setup for almost a year now. I’ve been powering an inverter, DSL router, and some 12V LED strip lights. But now that I want to expand the system, I have to justify it by...
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My Solar Panel Setup
This year I had a bunch of money left over after I sold my motorcycle to my sister. The motorcycle, a 1978 Suzuki GS550, had been sitting in the garage for a season, and I had to admit that I wasn’t...
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Raising Hog
We have some magnificent friends that live near Mount Pleasant. They’re doing some amazing things right now that leave me inspired every time we visit. This (last) year they bred some hogs for the...
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Mastering the Art of Space Cooking
The kids have come up with a cookbook for astronauts to use in space! This was part of their FIRST LEGO League competition, for which their team name this year is “Galaxy Pandas” . Honestly, the foods...
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House Addition
We broke ground on November 29th, 2017. The idea was (and still is, I guess) to build the addition ourselves so that we would appreciate every little bit that was added. If we hired it out, we could...
View ArticleSilent Dancers by Greta Piette
Winner of the 2022 Scholastic Art and Writing National Gold Medal and Best In Grade Awards https://medals.artandwriting.org/ London, England 1902 Madame Lavigne’s School of Ballet Back straight,...
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