Month: January 2009

Bright built barn

Bright built barn

Here’s a house that announces its energy efficiency (or lack thereof): With large intentions, its mission is to demonstrate an alternative method of building that allows levels of flexibility and sustainability beyond the reach of typical residential construction. This building requires NO FURNACE, even in Maine, and provides owners with real-time, easily understandable feedback of […]

Tweet-a-watt – our entry for the Core77 & Greener Gadgets design competition

Tweet-a-watt – our entry for the Core77 & Greener Gadgets design competition

Here’s what we entered, the Tweet-a-watt, for the Core77 & Greener Gadgets design competition… Using “off-the-shelf hardware”, we have modified a Kill-a-Watt(TM) power meter to “tweet” (publish wirelessly) the daily KWH consumed to the user’s Twitter account (Cumulative Killowatt-hours). We are releasing this project as an “Open source hardware” project – in other words, anyone […]

DIY panoramic tripod mount

In response to my previous post on creating panoramic photos in Linux, reader Tim pointed us to this DIY camera mount tutorial. When you rotate the camera to take different frames of the panoramic shot, it’s likely that the images of nearby objects will experience a perceptible parallax effect, which can cause problems during the […]

Headwork in the garden

Headwork in the garden

Headwork in the Garden, Science And Mechanics – 1957… THE chic hat Paul Johnson of Jacksonville, Fla., wears while gardening may not keep off the iun, but it will bring in all local radio stations. The one-tube radio headset operates on two dry cells to enable him to keep up with his favorite programs while […]