Rainwater harvesting’s kind of a no-brainer: when you start looking into it, capturing free water from the sky tends to creep onto your project list. (Image from Austin Water) Here are some Instructables to help you get started on basic systems: Starting with one 55-gallon barrel, and tying in another Getting fancier by going multi-tiered […]
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The picture pretty much says it all about this sew-riffic event tomorrow night: Here are a few more details. If you’re not into needlework and don’t want to become ‘sew’, feel free to volunteer and have your own skillshare!
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Permaculture means permanent culture, permanent agriculture, and other sustainability-related things, depending on who you ask. I’d describe it as sustainable design, with a focus on biomimicry and multiple uses for given elements. One popular concept is a ‘food forest,’ allowing multiple layers of edible things to grow in a given unit space: Austin’s lucky enough […]
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This Sunday, 2 of my favorite things come together: with DIY and hot sauce combined, I turn into Homer Simpson from that episode when he eats a hot pepper. In addition to tasting home brewed hot sauce, there’s also great music throughout the day. You can enter your own sauce the morning of competition, and […]
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Dorkbot Austin #16 is this Thursday, and it’s full of steampunk wearable robotic wonders: Jason Delaney’s steampunk (literally) homebrew still that can be used to make alcohol, herbal oils, purify water, etc. Chase Hammock’s touchscreen driven wearable multimedia computer Adam Iseman’s Ard-e, a sub-$100 robotics platform (Image courtesy Adrian Ward) We’re at Cafe Mundi, 8pm […]
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Design~Build~Live is one of a healthy number of groups in Austin doing their part to fill us all in on the ‘no-brainers’ of sustainability: measures where you don’t make a sacrifice to green your life but rather end up with a ‘better than polluting’ outcome. To steal a Worldchanging catchphrase, they’re trying to create a […]
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If you’re in, around, or looking for an excuse to visit the Austin area, here it is: people doing strange things with electricity with Tex-Mex. image courtesy Douglas Filiak Dorkbot Austin is now seeking makers to present at our monthly meetings. Past presenters have included: ArcAttack! and their Singing Tesla Coils The Robot Group’s Mechanical […]
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