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
Science
DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
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
Magnetic leaves turn your house into a greenhouse
These magnetic leaves are a pretty nice ways to turn your fridge into a virtual forest of sorts. Just be sure that you keep them away from your digital devices otherwise they might erase your data and send you back to prehistoric times. [via]
Technoscrap
This is a great use for all those old CRT’s that are being replaced by LCD’s. I would love to work in an environment with lighting like this. Technoscrap is a project on reuse of electronic waste in architecture and interior design. From an investigation of visual qualities of mechanical / electronic waste and observation […]