Monthly Archives: June, 2010
2nd Composter Finished
Rodent Resistant Composter – More DIY How To Projects Our household has officially outgrown our gigantic composter. We’ve made some changes to the composter and shared it on Instructables. major changes: Simple wire cylinder separates inner compost chamber from outer ring of woodchips instead of a cylinder AND a wire basket. The wire cylinder with [...]
WTF Fire Marshall?
So imagine me in a beautiful old building built for casting, welding, and other heavy industrial processes telling the landlord that we’re looking for space for our design group which builds and designs prototypes out of plastic, concrete and wood. He says to me ”Oh . . . we mostly have start ups in the [...]
New Monitoring System: easier, wireless, more reliable
Now we’re getting somewhere! My previous networked temperature monitoring systems were a little buggy. My first temperature monitor had its cable chewed up by a rodent and needed to be reset frequently. My second prototype failed on restart, making it problematic in low-power situations (a known issue for the Arduino’s Ethernet Shield), and eventually the [...]
Compost Pile, Modified
We eliminated the inner bin our our compost about eight weeks ago. The air gap between the thick wire and mesh bin channeled too much heat out. Now we have just a 4′ diameter mesh pile full of wood chips, with a 24″ column of vegetable compost in the middle, and temperatures pushing 60ºC in [...]
Speaking of Urinals… at Research Club, Tribute Gallery
Much thanks to Dustin Zemel! Mathew Lippencott from Research Club on Vimeo.
