I haven’t noticed that. It’s been a while since I put in anything. Fascinating idea.
it’s a very rare danger but not zero so you’ll see all new construction puts the outlets in “upside down” vs the way we grew up 
Regulations made to keep us from dropping skinny metal things onto our exposed plugs 
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Oh, the things I have managed to snag on a steel measuring tape. It makes sense to me.
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We were EXTREMELY lucky, the wiring was already to the Mains Box and it just needed the Red Tape Fairy to do their work and then a meter put on it.
If it were not for the wires in place it would have cost us a fortune as the wonder of this house is its location and views, but to achieve that it had to be built deep on the land and up a rock slope.
It does complicate things a little since we are putting Solar on soon (5kW inverter, with 6.4kW panels to utilise over-provisioning) and want to stick batteries on later when the numbers start to make more sense
Electric Sauna with Steam Rocks.
Draws 4.5kW on 3 elements… they COULD have been bridged through a 32A breaker on single phase but it is much easier to use the 3-phase for dedicated connections
All a bit messy but it was a work in progress at this stage
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Nice sign. I might have to make a few of those and leave them in random places around the house! 
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Ha ha, only thing we brought back from a Hawaii trip with the family a few years back… it has been waiting for the sauna all this time.
It is purely for guests who don’t know the house rules 
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Ah. Old school. Ours is an infrared “dry” sauna. Although it’s hard to stay dry in 150F 
Really nice after a tai chi session on a cold winter night.
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Yeah ‘official’ Finnish sauna… no birch branches here though!
Also used to have a wood fired Sauna… Russian manufacture and pretty damn good, a really interesting heat but it never really heated up the rocks like this sauna does
As for Tai Chi… as you can imagine i got a few stories but not gonna light the fire for story time now though!
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In this house (1996) one of the outlets in each room was upside down. That is the phantom outlet controlled by that switch that doesn’t seem to do anything. 
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My Show and Tell today is to highlight the contribution of one of our own forum members, @palmercr. Sanjay Mortimer from E3D is being interviewed by Tom Sanladerer regarding the use of the term “open source”. It’s a great video that brings up a lot of issues regarding development and marketing to the Maker community.
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Interesting and informative.
Most of my maker toys are open source hardware and firmware but both models work well. 
is as closed as can be but I’m fine with that. Where I have problems with people or companies is when they stand on the shoulders of giants and start open and then suddenly reverse to closed often claiming open innovations as their own.
Ironically one of the investors in did just that. I do hope that he has little enough invested that he doesn’t get much of a say in this product.
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Yes I did lot of experiments with hot ends for RepRap and made my own with stainless steel heat breaks and aluminium heater blocks and heatsinks. I made them on a lathe that I got as a long service award from the company I worked for at the time. I blogged it all and Sanjay set up E3D and ran with the ideas. Now I don’t need to make my own any more, I can buy improved versions from E3D. So what goes around comes around.
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That is so cool. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and contributing to the 3D printing world. I certainly benefit from it! I love my Prusa and just get so tickled every time I think of it as an open source project. I never really got involved in a community project before, although I have been working a lot with Koha open source library software. I tried to help out with the forums but since that wasn’t my primary job, I never kept it up, although I use the software constantly. I’m glad I found a community in Glowforge to share knowledge with. Who knows. Some day we all might be working together coming up with the open source software to drive them!
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Er, so just remind me, what’s your day job ?
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OK, That is funny!
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Yeah. I guess my day job has community enough. 
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When we built our house I had the wiring split between the top & bottom halves of each outlet. The tops are switched and the bottoms are unswitched. I’m not a big fan of overhead lights so this gives us the ability to turn on the lights when entering a room.
Now you could automate it all using Alexa 
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When I finally ‘gave in’ and bought two Alexa dots, I also shelled out about $300 for a Hue base and some light bulbs. My husband has severe neuropathy in his hands (and feet) and has difficulty using even the most simple and small things. Before the Alexa set up, I had several lights set up with remote controls, but must say, I LOVE being able to control lights by voice. Don’t have them all set up that way, but the ones that are, are a big help. All that and something that can read to us the longest word in the dictionary…what more could one ask? 
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I’ve got apples homekit and some hue lights. 1 color bulb over the kitchen sink, strip lights running under and on top of the main kitchen cabinets, 1 color in a large paper lamp in the dining room corner(kinda dark over there), and a white one in the master bath.
That’s the strips in one of the hue “tropical twilight”
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Very nice!