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Creating circuit diagrams. Making a printed circuit board. Gold recovery. Wait don’t throw those old electronics in the garbage, there’s gold in them there things.

Gold recovery

How about putting it in your pockets instead of someone else’s pocket? Laptops, phones, cameras, and the like are filled with gold plated circuit boards even printers and scanners have gold, silver, and copper, even platinum in them. Gold is a precious, conductive, and pliable metal that retains a stable value better than many commodities. Its chemical properties make it useful for the manufacture of computers parts and electronics.

Some people find it profitable to attempt to extract the gold from these scraps, then refine and sell it. Things You Will Need: Scrap electronics Rubber gloves Rubber apron Goggles Hydrogen Peroxide 3% I got from local pharmacy. Although no special skills are needed one should follow all chemical and heat safety procedures. Make it @ your library website launches, connecting librarians with makerspace projects and DIY resources. CHICAGO — In collaboration with Instructables.com and the American Library Association, Make it @ Your Library introduces makeitatyourlibrary.org, a new website tailored to librarians interested in implementing makerspace projects in their libraries.

Make it @ your library website launches, connecting librarians with makerspace projects and DIY resources

Fully searchable, Make it @ your library connects users to projects, based on library-specific search criteria. “Since around 2011, ‘makerspaces’ have really become a buzzword in libraries. Everyone is talking about them. A common misperception is that makerspaces require the purchase of high cost items like 3D printers, or the installation of full workshops. This site will cut down on librarian anxiety,” said Victoria Rakowski, assistant director of youth services at Lisle Library District. “We created Instructables.com for people to explore, document and share projects they are passionate about,” said Eric Wilhelm, founder of Instructables.com and director of communities at Autodesk.

Customizable Search Terms. DIY. How To Build A Mini Fridge. How to build your own dirt cheap fridge. This is a guest post and entry in our non-fiction writing contest by Michael C I noticed that many people on this blog want to store milk, vegetables, seeds and medication in a refrigerated atmosphere but have yet to buy 2 refrigerators.

How to build your own dirt cheap fridge

Remember the “two is one and one is none” motto; you need 2 ways (or more) to cool your food. You could make a Zeer pot, like I did but there is too much humidity and the pots aren’t big enough for 2 gallons of milk. I can’t buy another (let alone storing a 19 cubic footer) $700 fridge as a spare. The other problem is – I might not have AC to use in the future, regardless of all the solar panels I have. I thought of what MD Creekmore would do – a “Do It Yourself” project. My most important consideration is that it can be service-able by me, so, the fridge is not going to use Freon.

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Why Work Sucks And How To Fix It

Two guerrila HR types had secretly started a stealth mission to free Best Buyers from what many at the company referred to as “butt-in-chair” syndrome. The two HR bomb throwers argued that employees should be measured on output, not hours. And that the face-time culture was utterly out of place in the digital age. Their ultimate underground project—one in which you never had to darken the doors of the workplace if you didn’t want to—radically changed the culture at Best Buy. Shortly after the story, the nouveau thinking, HR duo—Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson—began writing a book about their excellent adventures. The blogosphere is already awash in buzz. 45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection To Discover The Best Of The Web In January. Don't Forget to participate in a contest where you can win an amazing e-Commerce template from TemplateMonster.

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we will try to cover as much as possible. Self Publishing - Lulu.com. Weekend Project: The Ball of Sound. What is it? What is it? Wonder How To » How To Videos & How-To Articles. The best how to videos on the web. How To Do Things » How To Articles & How To Videos.

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Home-built "Bio Computer" runs Linux, grows wheatgrass

Mindful Gizmag readers may recall his triple quad-core i7 LEGO PC housing that we looked at last July. But his latest project, the "Bio Computer," is rather more oddball, taking a turn distinctly towards the horticultural with a PC case adapted to ... grow wheatgrass. "I'm not complaining by any means, but I do feel as my basement becomes populated with more and more tech based projects that the environment is missing something organic, something natural to balance things out," writes Schropp, on his website, Total Geekdom. But where you or I might buy in a cactus or two, an amaryllis or perhaps even go bonsai, Schropp opted to merge the organic with the inorganic, putting the waste heat from a PC to use with an integrated flowerbed.

Well, not strictly a flowerbed. Source: Total Geekdom, via TreeHugger. How To Pick a Lock. How to unlock your car with a tennis ball. How to view blocked numbers. Mythbusters Tennis Ball Lockpick. How to Escape from Handcuffs. How to Escape From Plastic Handcuffs. Photoshop How To's. Tutorials/How To. How to disappear. How-to..

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