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The steel cases with removable plastic organizers have dividers molded in; those can't be adjusted. They came from McMaster-Carr. Check out my short video about the crimp terminal organizer for an alternative way of increasing the resolution though. For that one I 3D printed some cups to subdivide the spaces in a fixed tackle box. Thanks for the comment!

They ARE neat, aren't they? @SteveRobillard and I were discussing those in the comments here. Unfortunately neither of us could find more of them. I can say that the black and orange ones are Black & Decker, and the gray ones are "WorkForce" branded, but molded into the back it says "Rimax" and "Made in Columbia". Good luck and post a comment if you find them anywhere!

Ah, you understand! Don't they always? I've got a few more videos coming that are even more like that!

Thanks! That sounds like an easier way with less fiddling for sure.

Thank you! I will certainly make more.

Thank you for the tip! After I take this down I'll have to patch the screw holes and touch up the paint anyway, so I think it's okay.

Thank you for your comment, this is just the sort of feedback I need. I shoot everything with my Pixel phone. I import it into a Davinci Resolve project set to 30 fps. But looking at my source files in windows they're reported as 30.08 fps, 30.09 fps, etc. What to do?

Hey, thank you so much! Just invite 99,400 of your closest friends and we'll be there! Seriously though this video has changed things for my channel, it's taking off a bit as a result. I have to make more!

Thank you! There's more to come.

Thanks!

I've been reorganizing everything between the three types of organizers you see in the video, and actually it really does help. For instance: some of those drawers can be subdivided once (with a little sliding plastic piece) and other can be subdivided three times; these latter are useful in situations like "4-40 x 1/4" machine screws, of which I may have 4 different types that could all live in one drawer. The lighting helped me quickly scan through the stack looking for that type of drawer so I could allocate them most usefully.

Thank you so much! And may your hopes come true!

Thank you! I hope I do better soon. More videos on the way.

Thank you so much! I'll keep at it!

Good idea! Thank you.

Thank you!

The lighting is SO worth it!

I'm taking suggestions! This LED strip is fun to use!

Thanks! It's really good to hear that.

I also got those from Home Depot but I think possibly from another store as well. They're obviously all made by the same company but they're branded differently; the black and orange ones are Black and Decker for instance. It's been a long time since I bought one though. Good luck!

@@EikiMartinson Thanks for the quick response. I fear that it may take luck or a lucky find on craigslist/facebook marketplace at this point. Since like you it was years ago that I got them.

@@SteveRobillard It's a convenient thing for sure. I'm reorganizing now a bit to put the sorts of things I need in the field into those boxes, since they're easy to take with you.

@@EikiMartinson Great minds, that is exactly why I am looking for more I can put together a kit in each box and they are easy to bring to the library where I teach.

@@SteveRobillard Ah, we should connect. I've done some teaching at a makerspace as well.

Thank you but that's a step too far! I acquired them over years of course, but if I were building out a new system I'd get them all at once at the same place and they'd be the same color. By the way, one of them glows significantly warmer than the others because it's the oldest one and the bins are yellowing!

Good idea but I think I need an intern to maintain the database in that case! Getting this done already triggered a reorganization and consolidation effort. Lots of overlap and inefficiency at the moment. Thank you for your comment!

Zack Freedman did this! Check out his video on it, it's awesome

Hey, thanks so much! Check out Max as well, he has some great videos.

As long as I can play tetris on it too! Thanks!

Light up the zones of the stuff you have not touched in years. It’d be fun for sure. But the rot scares me. My one or two units have the rot really bad.

@@FearsomeWarrior LOL, I don't need THAT much accountability! As far as the rot goes, yeah, these are pretty cheaply made, but ubiquitous also, so possibly they can be replaced? It's also possible to fix or reinforce them. I've glued some of the seams back together already.

@@EikiMartinson I mean the things I forget about or never have applicable use. I think you store a much more active collection of parts.

@@FearsomeWarrior Ah, don't give me too much credit! I've got plenty of parts I can't bear to, um, part with myself. But what a joy it is when you finally get to use one of them, right?

Thank you! I'm very pleased to finally have it all together like this.

Thank you for your kind words! The next owners will probably be mystified to learn their sprinklers are controlled by a "raspberry pie". ;) Handing over IoT hardware like this is a tricky thing in any case for reasons of network provisioning if nothing else (I think about this a lot). I agree with your comment though; other colors for 24V would certainly have been the right thing to do in this case. But you know how it goes: all I have handy is black, white, green, and sometimes red!

You're welcome!

Thank you!

Hi! Thanks for your comment. You can use any of the Pi's GPIO pins to drive a relay board. Depending on how that board is set up, you may choose active high or active low in Open Sprinkler. And you can use the relay to switch the mains power to the transformer. In my case I'm taking 5V power and ground to the relay board from Pi pins 4 and 6, then using pin 12 (GPIO 18) as the signal to the relay. Does that make sense?

Thank you so much! There was a lot to think about in that installation related to packaging, weatherproofing, power, etc. that I perceive gets glossed over very often.

It works, yes. Still trashy though!

Oh it works. But still kinda trashy and hilariously translated, with a detour through Spanish on the way to English looks like.

Me too. I tossed the wrench the day I bought my grinder