Tag: Do it yourself

  • Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement Changed one Man’s Life

    (via Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement… | TimBatchelder. Related articles ‘Maker Movement’ enabling more women to launch tech businesses? (zdnet.com) Chris Anderson: New Revolution “Bigger Than The Web” (dailyreckoning.com) Maker Corps at Maker Faire Wants You! (makezine.com) Life on the Fringes of Cyberculture: An Interview with Gareth Branwyn (motherboard.vice.com) MIT wants to see…

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  • Sprinter RV DIY Conversion

    (via Sprinter RV: DIY Sprinter RV Conversion Gallery) Related articles Airstream Reveals 2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter-Based Interstate (extravaganzi.com) DIY Housing, Is this a new trend for homeownership? (streetcornerprophet.com) Roadtrek Adds Solar Power, Biodiesel to Its RV Lineup (thegreenenergyblog.com)

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  • DIY copper and concrete lamp

    How To: Make a Concrete and Copper Bedside Lamp curbly.com I’ve been on a bit of a lighting kick lately and I think I might just have to try this bedside lamp project. Especially since it involves two of my favorite materials: concrete and… Continue reading on Curbly.com How To: Make a Concrete and Copper…

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  • Mason jar lunches: safe, healthy and mobile

    Pack Multi-Layered Meals in Mason Jars for a Grab-and-Go Lunch You Can Make in Advance Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Finding time to pack a lunch ahead so you can eat well and save a bit of cash can be tricky. Thankfully the solution to making a healthy, tasty lunch that you can grab in the morning…

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  • Tensile canopy tent

    Tentsile’s New Stingray Hanging Tent Lets You Sleep Comfortably Suspended in the Trees! Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Forget about soggy sleeping bags and competing with rocks and debris on the cold, hard ground on your next camping trip – Inhabitat favorite Tentsile just launched a brand new suspended tent called the Stingray that lets you rest…

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  • A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated

    A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com To get definitive evidence if oil from the BP spill has seeped into water sources, citizen scientists need a device called a spectrometer. Sounds fancy and expensive. But a new project will send you one made with nothing but a few…

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  • DIY history digitizes ethnomedical recipe books

    DIY History crowdsources the transcription of 17th century cookbooks By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk Culture “We are what we eat,” the old say­ing goes. If so, there’s no bet­ter way to digest cul­ture than to comb through painstak­ing­ly hand­writ­ten cook­books. Now, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Libraries has made the task expo­nen­tial­ly eas­i… RT @WiredUK: DIY History…

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  • DIY history identifies forgotten bio prospecting knowledge

    How to make calves’ head soup, and other culinary treats from the past By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk Culture The Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Libraries has made the task expo­nen­tial­ly eas­i­er with the launch of DIY His­to­ry, a crowd­sourc­ing ini­tia­tive that allows vol­un­teers to tran­scribe the Sza­th­mary Culi­nary Archives, cen­turies’ wort… http://flip.it/m6bBi Related articles BioCurious DIY BioPrinter…

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