Ryan Brenner made a Labyrinth as part of his Eagle Scout project. Ryan says: My part was to lead the building of it, but there’s a part of everyone who worked on it in the paths of the labyrinth. Some people brought stones from their yards, the beach, or travels and placed them there in […]
How is your holiday hacking going? If you have been good, Santa has stocked you up with lots of clever goodies to keep you and yours entertained. Below are a few things that I found in my stocking and am looking forward to fussing with: Disposable battery/charger for cellphones. At two dollars (frugal Santa), if […]
A recent visitor to TechShop in Menlo Park, CA said that he was amazed by a story he was told on his tour. Initially, there was concern that tools would walk out the door at TechShop. In practice, though, the opposite has proved to be true. Members of this community-based workshop brought tools from home […]
Nothing captures the holiday spirit like staggering numbers of alcoholic beverage bottles. [via Unpluggd]
Why cut down a perfectly good pine when you probably have old hard drives, cardboard, or some other material just waiting to be a tree sitting around your house? My favorite is the Mountain Dew can tree: (via Ecofriend)
About a year ago my town started moving seriously towards Single Stream Recycling and Pay as You Throw for trash. These were initiated as a way of giving people an incentive to recycle instead of tossing everything in the trash. The trash was a pretty big part of the budget for waste removal in the […]
Terence R. McCain researched how to build a bike that could help him haul supplies from town to his home. He decided he wanted an electric cargo bike. An energetic retiree, McCain had to go out of state to find a bike shop with “experience selling several models of cargo bicycles, and retrofitting electrical systems […]
