It’s sweltering just about everywhere in the lower 48 this week, just in time for us to launch some rockets and break out the BBQ for July 4th. And in places where every home doesn’t have AC, it’s getting downright unbearable. So we figured we’d do our part to help folks find relief, and collect a few of the great projects we’ve written or seen around the Internet to inspire you to take personal cooling into your own hands.
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Wow – a Shell oil remotely operated vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico caught footage of this amazing squid! Based on analysis of videos not unlike the one captured at the Perdido site, scientists know that the adult Magnapinna observed to date range from 5 to 23 feet (1.5 to 7 meters) long, Vecchione said. […]
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David J. Neff from The Haunted Report Blog will be joining us at MAKE as we celebrate what is perhaps the biggest DIY holiday all year, Halloween! The Haunted report is the haunted attraction/haunted house industries’ top independent blog and they will be highlighting some great DIY Halloween ideas. We’ll try and keep it modern […]
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Franco sent in this article detailing his new method for affordable cooling – The construction was fairly simple. It only took me a few hours. I used a 20 litre plastic container to house the heat exchanger and also hold the cooling medium which is ice-water in this case. I made the heat exchanger roughly […]
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It’s summer. It’s hot. Your big ol’ box fan is ailing. Time to buy a new fan CLEAN IT! After only one season a fan may be covered in enough gunk to give the illusion that the ‘motor’ is worn out, when really all that is needed is a good cleaning to keep it running […]
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