Author Archives:
GardenPool & Our Design Fiction
Molly and I wrote this piece of design fiction about using the suburbs for scrap last summer. And today in a Transition PDX is GardenPool, where they DID roughly what we were talking about! love it.
The Other WTO
The World Toilet Organization. Check out this amazingly comprehensive 158 page compendium (PDF link) of toilets, sanitation, and sewage technologies.
Peak Phosphorus vid from Phosphorus Futures
Taking the Pee (draft audio) from Dylan McIntyre on Vimeo.
Talking with RJ at DorkbotPDX’s summer party tonight
RJ Steinert, monitoring, dorkbotPDX
DEQ permits Dirthugger
Dirthugger, a new Oregon composting company, just got their permit from the DEQ!. Congratulations!
sensors off the grid
I’m working on a 3.6v lithium ion battery charger based on the LT3652. more later, I just like how it looks in CAD.
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.
Opening May 21 at AT1 Projects, LA
Things have been quiet here on our blog, because we’ve been preparing an exhibition. An essay/text and prototypes of ours will be featured in the Super/Prime Pavilion at Volume, AT1 Projects opening show. Super/Prime is curating a collection of works about transformations in process. We’re excited, but won’t be able to make the opening. If [...]