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Paper CD case. Steampunk wristwatch with mechamical iris cover. "TimEye". Come riciclare i fondi del caffè » soloecologia.it. Buongiorno, un caffè per iniziare bene la giornata?

Come riciclare i fondi del caffè » soloecologia.it

Noi preferiamo la moka, più ecologica delle cialde, come abbiamo spiegato in questo articolo oppure una macchina per il caffè a pressione, per la quale non serve l’elettricità. Succulent cutting < How to make your own vertical succulent garden.

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The Sietch Blog » Watercone – An Ingenious Way To Turn Salt Water Into Fresh Water. The Watercone is an ingenious device that can take salty water and turn it into fresh water using only the power of the sun.

The Sietch Blog » Watercone – An Ingenious Way To Turn Salt Water Into Fresh Water

The nice thing about this device is it is bone simple, uses the sun instead of fossil fuel, and is cheap to make and easy to use. The Watercone is surprisingly a cone, that you place over a pan of salty water (or over a marsh, or any damp ground) leave it out in the sun, water evaporates, the condensation trickles down the side of the cone, at the end of the day you flip it over, remove the cap at the top and drink the water.

This device has the potential to really do a lot of good for a lot of people. So many people live in areas where the ground water has been polluted by salt incursion due to over pumping, or in areas that simply don’t have large fresh water sources (south pacific islands, sub-Saharan Africa, south-east Asia). They claim that on average one Watercone can produce one liter of water per-day. Datamancer accepting steampunk laptop pre-orders. Crummet sez, "Datamancer, aka Richard Nagy, is offering his most primo steampunk laptops for sale, finally!

Datamancer accepting steampunk laptop pre-orders

A little pricey ($5500) but hey! Steampunk laptop! " Datamancer is one of the most skilled, detail-focused steampunk makers out there; I have one of his famous keyboards, which I love to pieces. This looks like a smashing laptop indeed. These new versions will be better and faster than my original prototype, featuring cutting-edge internal components capable of running any of today's games and other software. Lesson Plan for Making a Speaker Laboratory. ©1995 The Regents of the University of California by Regan Lum Introduction: A speaker is a device that converts an electronic signal into sound.

Lesson Plan for Making a Speaker Laboratory

The speaker you will build (see figure 1) consists of a Styrofoam or paper cup, a coil of wire, a permanent magnet, and a signal source. The electronic signal goes through the coil and creates a varying electromagnet. Figure 1 Purpose: Como hacer un porta anillos. The free repair manual. Teachmetomake. The best thing in printing since Gutenberg. How To - Do It Yourself. DIY Projects, Inspiration, How-tos, Hacks, Mods & More @ Makezine.com - Tweak Technology to Your Will. How to Grow 100 Pounds of Potatoes in 4 Square Feet.

On many occasions, we've been tempted to grow our own potatoes.

How to Grow 100 Pounds of Potatoes in 4 Square Feet

They're fairly low maintenance, can be grown in a pot or in the ground, last a fairly long time if stored properly, and can be very nutritious (high in potassium and vitamin C). Here's more incentive: according to this article, you can grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 sq. feet. Learn how after the jump... According to this article from the Seattle Times, potatoes planted inside a box with this method can grow up to 100 pounds of potatoes in just 4 square feet. All that is required: Lumber Seed potatoes Soil Careful attention to watering The Times' guide for building a potato growing box yields up to a 100 lbs. of potatoes in a mere 4 square feet is shown below: Plant as early as April or as late as August 1, with an approximated 3 month till harvest turnaround time.

Here are some pointers from the article: Cut apart larger seed potatoes, making sure there are at least two eyes in each piece you plant. 30 Useful (and Unknown) Web Apps You Need to Bookmark - Page 3. Mint Mint is a popular financial planning web app, with a whole suite of functions for keeping track of your money.

30 Useful (and Unknown) Web Apps You Need to Bookmark - Page 3

Home Decor/ DIY. HAUTE NATURE. Boxpunx glueless series one. 19 Ways to Slash Your Utility Bill. Where George Scott sees red, his clients are bleeding green.

19 Ways to Slash Your Utility Bill

Scanning the outside of a ranch home in Longmont, Colo., recently, the energy auditor's infrared camera registered blue and aqua in spots where heated air stayed put. That's what the homeowner expected. "He thought he'd done everything right," Scott says, because he had tackled obvious stuff like adding insulation. "But he was baffled by his high gas bills. " When the camera scanned the attic, the viewfinder found orange and red blobs where air gushed by the chimney, 20 recessed lights and two uninsulated hatches. But you don't need an infrared camera to reveal utility-bill busters that are left after the obvious stuff is done. That old clunker of a refrigerator in the basement could be costing the equivalent of 10 cases of Bud in wasted energy each year. . + Plug the Power Drain As much as 75 percent of electricity use by electronics occurs while the devices are off.

. + Seal HVAC Ducts Put away the duct tape. IKEA Hackers.