Month: January 2009

Plan for your root cellar

Photo from Green Home Building During the winter iciness, lots of people warm up by reading seed catalogs and planning their gardens. If you are among those sitting by the woodstove contemplating books full of DNA, you might want to think of where you will store all your grown goodies. In a recent post about […]

Fermentation Nation

Fermentation Nation

Most of the time when we think of fermentation, we think of the process that produces alcohol in beer or wine. I was making beer yesterday, producing a dark liquid from steeping grains. At the end, I added yeast which will convert those sugars to alcohol over the course of a few days. In a […]

More Examples of Tiny Needlework

Over the weekend, I posted about the Tiny Monogram Challenge from Sublime Stitching, as well as the tiny sampler stitched by Christiana Black. Now even more examples of tiny, precisely stitched work are showing up! Jane Hettich of Whiskers on Kittens has created several stunning stitched miniature masterpieces as part of her scale miniatures and […]

Controlling airflow with the Make Controller

Controlling airflow with the Make Controller

Former Make intern Jake McKenzie is part of the team of students at UC Berkeley who made the Efficient Cooling and Ventilation System, powered by the Make Controller: Most cooling systems today do not take into consideration that compartments within the system may represent drastically different thermal loads. … The Efficient Cooling and Ventilation System […]