Open-Source Solar Modules
As the price of solar panels continues to fall, more and more places find it economical to build solar farms that might not have been able to at higher prices. …read more Continue reading Open-Source Solar Modules
Category Archives: green
Hackaday Prize 2023: AutoDuct Smart Air Duct
Modern building techniques are relying more and more on passive elements to improve heating and cooling efficiencies, from placing windows in ways to either absorb sunlight or shade it out …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: AutoDuct Smart Air Duct
Off-Grid EV Charging
There are plenty of reasons to install solar panels on one’s home. Reducing electric bills, reducing carbon footprint, or simply being in a location without electric service are all fairly …read more Continue reading Off-Grid EV Charging
Self-Watering Planters Reuse Household Jars
Self-watering planters are low-maintenance, and common DIY projects. What we like most about [Tommy]’s design is that it reuses empty jars to create self-watering planters. After all, jars are fantastic …read more Continue reading Self-Watering Planters Reuse Household Jars
2022 Hackaday Prize: Plant Monitoring System Grows To Include LoRa
Change on industrial scales is slow, but if you’re operating your own small farm or simply working in a home garden there are some excellent ways to use water more …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Plant Monitoring System Grows To Include LoRa
Green Roofs Could Help Improve Solar Panel Efficiency
There’s been a movement in architecture over the past couple of decades to help tie together large urban developments with plant life and greenery. We’ve seen a few buildings, and …read more Continue reading Green Roofs Could Help Improve Solar Panel Efficiency
Flax/cork-composite truck camper overlands to a greener destination
If you enjoy exploring remote, pristine parts of the world, it follows that you probably want to protect those spaces — and camping around in a foam-filled box hauled by a big truck with low double-digit fuel economy isn’t necessarily the best way of d… Continue reading Flax/cork-composite truck camper overlands to a greener destination
Flax/cork-composite truck camper overlands to a greener destination
If you enjoy exploring remote, pristine parts of the world, it follows that you probably want to protect those spaces — and camping around in a foam-filled box hauled by a big truck with low double-digit fuel economy isn’t necessarily the best way of d… Continue reading Flax/cork-composite truck camper overlands to a greener destination
Road Pollution Doesn’t Just Come from Exhaust
Alumni from Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art want to raise awareness of a road pollution source we rarely consider: tire wear. If you think about it, it is obvious. Our tires wear out, and that has to go somewhere, but what surprises …read more
Continue reading Road Pollution Doesn’t Just Come from Exhaust
CNC on the Desktop Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, August 26 at noon Pacific for the CNC on the Desktop Hack Chat with Matt Hertel and John Allwine!
Once limited to multi-million dollar machines on the floors of cavernous factories, CNC technology has moved so far downscale in terms of machine size that it’s often …read more