Not quite production-ready, this is probably the most sustainable DIY housing I can imagine: Here’s an explanation with an architect behind the concept: Any ideas/instructions for slightly-smaller-scale growable structures? (Via Chelsea Green)
Using a chip that’s sort of an Arduino times 4, the Reprap team has a new prototype motherboard. Via hackaday: When the RepRap team found themselves pushing the limits of the Arduino, they started looking for alternatives. They found it in the ATMega644P. It has four times the memory and four times the RAM compared […]
Route-me is an Open Source (BSD license) mapping library for the iPhone. It’s written in native Objective C and can use the OpenStreetMap data layer, among others. If you’re an iPhone developer, this gives you an easy way to add high-quality mapping functionality, similar to that of the built in Google Maps client, to your […]
Tristan and Libby, sharing their cheese-making knowledge (photo via Mikey). I was lucky enough to get a lesson in cheesemaking from Tristan and Libby, authors of the Whittled Down blog. A gallon of milk and a few other ingredients makes a pound of cheese, and you can go from milk to mozzarella in a couple […]
Here’s a short piece about challenging car-dominated car culture (and, to a lesser degree, high-priced bike shops) in an unlikely city: (via Treehugger) We’ve got the Yellow Bike Project in Austin, which has suspended its bike-earning program while building out a new space but has kept a very-respectable commnity bike repair shop in action. What […]
Probably only a mockup, but such a wonderfully weird idea that I wanted to share. From Momentum: Iron Saddle Who hasn’t suffered from ‘cold butt’ while riding in winter, at least in the northern parts of the continent?… A battery, a 12 volt iron (without steam option) and voila! Toasty Buns! And of course if […]
Short an ingredient for some holiday cookies? Slashfood can help you create DIY butter (via Lifehacker). Mother Earth News has another take here.
