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Scratch-build garden nursery uses Arduino monitoring
Starting your garden indoors helps to ensure large yields. This is because the plants get a head start before it’s warm enough for them to be put in the ground. But the process involves a fair a… more →
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Scratch-build garden nursery uses Arduino monitoring
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wrote 9 hours ago: Starting your garden indoors helps to ensure large yields. This is because the plants get a head sta … more →
The Dronitar; a scrap made motorized sitar
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wrote 18 hours ago: This peculiar instrument, called the Dronitar, is completely made from scrap. Interestingly, it sou … more →
DIY solar collector boost your hot water system
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wrote 1 week ago: This home is heated by a wood stove in the winter, which also produces hot water. But the other thre … more →
Heliowatcher positions solar panels for highest efficiency
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wrote 1 week ago: [Jason Wright] and [Jeremy Blum] are showing off the project they developed for their Designing with … more →
Prototyping a solar charger for your truck
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wrote 2 weeks ago: [Bryan] got his hands on a solar panel and decided to take it on the road rather than throwing it on … more →
Recycle lithium cells by building custom flashlights
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wrote 2 weeks ago: This isn’t a brightest flashlight in the world type of hack (but it does manage to push about … more →
Generating electricity with swing sets
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wrote 3 weeks ago: [Guelherme Pena Costa] came up with an idea to light up a swing set using the motion of the people s … more →
Sun-powered Stirling engine with automatic tracking
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wrote 1 month ago: Check out this solar-powered Stirling engine (translated). The build is part of a high school class … more →
Monitoring a solar array output
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wrote 1 month ago: After years of hoping and wishing [Dave] finally took the plunge and installed solar panels on the r … more →
Harvesting and graphing wireless household utility meter info
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wrote 1 month ago: Both our electrical meter and our gas meter are located in the basement of our house (we recently ha … more →
New dirigibles are power plants in the sky
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wrote 2 months ago: We wonder if a floating wind turbine generator (translated) like this one would alleviate some of th … more →
Coin cell battery charger
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wrote 2 months ago: [Jay Kickliter] built his own coin cell battery recharger. This won’t work on the vast majorit … more →
Hot dirt keeps your plants happy in the winter months
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wrote 2 months ago: [Craig] tried heating his greenhouse last winter, but really only managed to push the limits of his … more →
Check it out, my clothes are electric. No, seriously
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wrote 3 months ago: Someday you may be able to use your crotch or armpits to recharge that cellphone. Heck, maybe there … more →
Make a Wind Turbine from 55 Gallon Drums
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wrote 3 months ago: Although there are several vertical axis wind turbines listed on greenterrafirma’s page, the o … more →
Hydroponic strawberries sweeten up winter dolldrums
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wrote 3 months ago: Add some fruit to your indoor bounty with this hydroponic strawberry farm. [Dino] whipped this up as … more →
A.R.T. sorts your recyclables for you
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wrote 3 months ago: [Yuhin Wu] wrote in to let us know about the Automated Recycling Sorter that was built with a group … more →
Reviewing the numbers from one month of solar harvesting
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wrote 4 months ago: [Mathieu] just finished analyzing the numbers from a month of solar energy harvesting. You may remem … more →
Crunching the numbers: using solar cells indoors
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wrote 5 months ago: [Mathieu] was interested in using more solar cells for his everday electronics. He looked around but … more →
