Household Uses for Lemons
Apartment Therapy Re-Nest gives us lots of options for household uses for lemons from removing limescale to exfoliating your feet! Check out this cute heart-shaped lemon too.
Month: April 2008
Earth Day Ideas
Juliet Ames posted some Earth Day crafting ideas on Crafting a Green World. Some of the activities she recommends include making coffee ground fossils and toothbrush bracelets. Happy Earth Day!
Recipes for Green Cleaning
The New New York Etsy Street Team posted some green cleaning recipes for your home. Clean your toilet with vinegar and baking soda or clear a drain with salt and boiling water. Related Worsted Witch’s Green Cleaning Kit
HOW TO – Detect pollutants with Arduino
Here’s a how-to regarding the detection of volatile organic compounds using Arduino and a TGS2620 sensor – This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you program responses to) overall gas levels for a variety of nasties, including ethanol, methane, formaldehyde, and a bunch of other volatile organic compounds. No explanation as to how refraining from […]
Human-powered music @ Maker Faire
Paul Freedman (aka Fossil Fool) will be providing musical entertainment at Maker Faire via human-powered bike-stage! In case you’re not up, Fossil Fool is a bike rapper – A bike rapper is like a regular rapper, but instead of showing up in a car and rapping about cars, I show up on bike, and rap […]
HOW TO – Backyard composter
Ryan writes in with a helpful how-to – Well, it’s garden season again, which means it’s time to start composting. I meant to be composting throughout the winter, but a telephone pole fell on my old compost pile, and I’ve had absolutely no motivation to repair it. It wasn’t much of a pile anyways. As […]
Briefcase seat
I’ve seen many unwanted/discarded suitacases around my neighborhood – it’s tempting to salvage them, but I seldom have any good uses in mind. This portable seat design could work, provided the hinges are strong enough – Briefcase seat
