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Home Energy Dashboards
New ways to see your power usage in real time.
From MAKE:
18: ReMake America page 48
Power Down with DMAIC
Reduce your electricity bill with the engineer's favorite problem-solving method.
From MAKE:
18: ReMake America page 52
Off-Grid Laundry Machine
This think-small washer needs no electricity or running water.
From MAKE:
18: ReMake America page 60
Drip Irrigation
Grow healthy vegetables the automatic way, while using less water.
From MAKE:
18: ReMake America page 72
Vermicomposting: Make Your Own Worm Bin
Let hungry, squirmy wigglers take out the household trash.
From MAKE:
18: ReMake America page 78
Humanure for the City Dweller
Embrace your body as a soil-maker.
From MAKE:
18: ReMake America page 82
Wind-Triggered Lantern
An LED, a feather, and a spring.
In
123
from MAKE:
17: Lost Knowledge page 92
Mechanical Image Duplicator
With a few everyday items found in the home, you can make a pantograph.
In
123
from MAKE:
17: Lost Knowledge page 136
Craft a Green World
An idealist’s perspective on creating a sustainable future.
From
CRAFT:
09: Crafting Green page 38
Relative Measurements
Making good guesses using what's at hand (including your hand).
In
DIY: Home
from MAKE:
16: Spy Tech page 168
Electronic Drum Kit
Velocity-sensitive impact sensors in PVC pipes interface to a micro drum machine.
From MAKE:
15: Music page 88
Exquisite Crops
Collaborative art for the artistically challenged.
In
Upload
from MAKE:
15: Music page 93
Simple Bauhaus Throw
Knit a blanket inspired by the clean lines of this early modernist art movement.
In
DIY: Cover It
from
CRAFT:
08: Weaving page 108
Solar Power System Design
How to use solar panels to supplement your home or workshop electricity needs.
In
Primer
from MAKE:
14: Optics page 160
Under Rusted Stars
Something downright magical happens when the right gleaner and the right piece of junk find one another.
In
Re: Fitted
from
CRAFT:
06: Play page 152
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