Long, covid-avoiding lockdown evenings provided me with an ample opportunity to follow up on an old idea I had when I was working with audio processing. I was expecting to discover an issue that would make it a dead-end at some point, but at each iteration I was surprised about how well it worked, so I was left with no other option but to continue 🙂
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I usually eat a lot of bread and wanted to replace it with a non-wheat alternative with lower carbohydrate content. Out of all the nut and seed-based flours, flaxseed seemed to have the least number of calories. I found some recipes on the web, but they were quite varied and I wanted to try a couple of variants, especially because I was using a quicker cooking method.
(more…)I recently bought an IR radiant heating panel to cut down on heating cost. The idea is that it heats surfaces instead of the air, so if placed close to people, the overall air temperature can be kept lower than would be otherwise pleasant. It feels like sitting next to a fireplace, although much weaker. Considering the goal, the only reasonable place to put it was the windowsill.
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