Abe Connally

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Solar Wax Melter
Purify beeswax with a simple sun-powered oven.
In DIY: Outdoors from MAKE: 28: Toys and Games page 136

Toddler Swing
Make an indoor/outdoor swing for your little one in 30 minutes.
In DIY: Home from MAKE: 28: Toys and Games page 144

Fishing for Swarms
Lure in a local colony of honeybees with a simple wooden bait hive.
In DIY: Outdoors from MAKE: 27: Robots page 132

Solar Food Dryer
Drying with the sun is one of the easiest, most energy-efficient ways to preserve your harvest.
In DIY: Outdoors from MAKE: 26: Karts and Wheels page 120

Fabric Formed Posts
Create cheap and easy reinforced concrete columns in organic, sculptural forms.
In DIY: Outdoors from MAKE: 26: Karts and Wheels page 124

Your Own Honey Cow
Make a simple beehive and enjoy the sweet fruits of your labor.
In DIY: Outdoors from MAKE: 25: Microcontrollers and Arduino page 123

Jar Organizer
Put those old jars to good use.
In DIY: Home from MAKE: 24: Space page 128

Bucket Full O' Pockets
Make your tool bucket even handier with a nifty cover.
In DIY: Workshop from MAKE: 24: Space page 137

Homemade Seed Starters
Avoid transplant mortality by making soil blocks.
In DIY: Outdoors from MAKE: 24: Space page 140

Compressed Earth Block Floor
Lay your own earthen brick floor for about $60.
In DIY: Home from MAKE: 23: Gadgets page 117

Open Source Self-Replicator
This plasma cutter promises tool inter-changeability, and synergy with its RepRap cousin.
From MAKE: 21: Desktop Manufacturing page 66

Open Source Soaring
Mike Sandlin has created a lightweight set of gliders that are “intended to provide open air soaring, forgiving flight characteristics, convenient transport, simple ‘garage technology’ construction, and a high level of crash safety.”
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 19: Robots page 23

On the Right Trac
Marcin Jakubowski and the team at Open Source Ecology (OSE) designed an open source tractor, called LifeTrac.
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 18: ReMake America page 20