Lights made from water bottles
Talk about your village ingenuity. (And yes, clearly, it’s only for indoor lighting during the day). Use a 2-Liter Bottle as a 50 Watt Light Bulb lightbulb hack
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Lost Knowledge: Island tricks
The weekly Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we look at retro-tech, “lost” technology, and the make-do, improvised “street tech” of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe. “Lost Knowledge” is also the theme […]
The forgotten Zeppelin knot
In response to Chris’ Val ties the canoe piece, one of our readers, Dave, wrote: Zeppelin knot I bought a used Mother Earth News magazine just because of the article on a knot that it had inside. It is a GREAT knot for tying two lines together. The history makes it interesting. Here is the […]
Meteotek high-altitude balloon project
Meteotek is a Spanish high school project to build a meteorological sounding balloon equipped with temperature and pressure sensors, GPS, radio, and a still camera. They had a successful launched on February 28, 2009. Their Flickr pages are in (Catalan) Spanish, but the photos speak for themselves. It’s just endlessly amazing to me that the […]
Lost Knowledge: The Antikythera Device
The weekly Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we look at retro-tech, “lost” technology, and the make-do, improvised “street tech” of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe. “Lost Knowledge” is also the theme […]
Guitar amp storefront
Woah, check out this storefront in Southampton in the UK, it’s dressed up like a guitar amp, and the illusion is particularly convincing when the place is closed with the grate down. Also, the knobs go to 11. Via Buzzfeed.
Ball Pendulum
eklux writes – This video shows a self oscillating ball pendulum, that feeds a ten counter balance. If I’ve had enough time, Meccano and balls, the idea was to built a complete clock, with a set of sequential balances, that together would display the current time. Also, it would have been nice to fall a […]
