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Just saw this, searched for the project, and found this thread.

A similar thing has happened to me in the past. Brought a phone dock from amazon, and when it arrived, it didn't fit my phone, looking at the serial number on the dock itself, it w…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23852177 explains it, with a quote from the article. They weren't able to map the whole thing, because of repeating patterns. That's now starti…

Well, as he says in his video, it's typically the queen that dictates how aggressive the colony is. Watching the video, he taped the hive up and then poured the soapy water in. I d…

Some hives have enclosed floors. But modern hives, at least in the UK, now have a mesh floor. Which is there to reduce the numbers of a parasite, varroa. The mesh allows the parasi…

That's an interesting question. I'm not sure how you would pump CO2 into a bag and kill a colony. I'm not sure it's an accepted process for doing that. Maybe there's a chance you m…

Well the video at 3 minutes in, with the Bees flying all over the camera and attempting to sting him. You can see them flying towards the chap, and you can tell when they're doing …

That's funny, I just saw this suggested to me too, but I'm a beekeeper, so I wasn't expecting this to appear here.

It appears, halfway through reading this, it's become password protected.

Yes, I thought so too. But wondered if it might have been a comment about the general state of the Internet instead.

Ah, this is a really useful topic, following on from the previous post about DIY weatherstations. I'm currently adding my data to wunderground, but I'm not getting a huge amount of…

Yeah, it's useful if you want a static website for your weatherstation. But I would quite like the current readings, to actually be current, rather than up to 5 mins old.

Yes, they do fail. I guess that's evident by the design of the weather station, as the humidity sensor is modular, so it can be replaced. Unfortunately, I think this design also me…

I'm using weewx for my weather station. I pulled the weather station out of a bin at my former place of employment, which is an airmar 200wx, ultrasonic wind sensor that's typicall…

If this was posted on the 1st of April, I wouldn't believe it...

Yeah, I'm not particularly keen on the BCS either.

Perhaps the ycombinator equivalent to being slash dotted has occurred. Here's a copy https://web.archive.org/web/20181013192728/http://scoraigwin...

Yes, I've purchased the designs to one of his turbines.

I don't think off grid, means completely isolated from the rest of the world.

That article includes a comment from resident Hugh Piggott, somewhat of a rockstar in the DIY wind turbine world. http://scoraigwind.co.uk/about/

Huh, I never thought about Switzerland being a third world country.

Yeah, it's working for me, since about Wednesday/Thursday.

No but they did attempt to ban neonicotinoids across Europe, against stiff opposition from the UK government.