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Wood is an amazing material to use around the house, both for its green credentials and the way it looks and feels. That said, as a natural product there are …read more Continue reading The Confusing World of Wood Preservation Treatments
For whatever reason, certain pieces of technology can have a difficult time interacting with the physical world. Anyone who has ever used a printer or copier can attest to this, …read more Continue reading A Wood Chipper from First Principles
Drilling holes can be quite time consuming work, particularly if you have to drill a lot of them. Think about all the hassle of grabbing a part, fixturing it in …read more Continue reading Drilling Rig Makes Accurate Holes In Seconds
Keyboards! They’ve been almost universally made out of plastic since the dawn of the microcomputer era. Meanwhile, wood is a rather desirable material and it lends itself rather well to …read more Continue reading Producing An Exquisite Wooden Keyboard
A 3,775-year-old log discovery has lent credence to the idea of burying wood to sequester the carbon it contains. Known as a wood vault, the concept helps keep CO2 out of the atmosphere while allowing the soil to be used for crops and other purposes.Co… Continue reading Carbon-locking wood vault concept advanced by discovery of ancient log
A 3,775-year-old log discovery has lent credence to the idea of burying wood to sequester the carbon it contains. Known as a wood vault, the concept helps keep CO2 out of the atmosphere while allowing the soil to be used for crops and other purposes.Co… Continue reading Carbon-locking wood vault concept advanced by discovery of ancient log
Embossing (making raised shapes) and debossing (making sunken shapes) on 3D-printed surfaces is not a new idea; we do it all the time. [Cory] from Vancouver Hack Space was playing …read more Continue reading Embossing Graphics By 3D Printing On Wood
Researchers at the University of British Columbia leveraged an unusual discovery into ultra-black material made from wood. The deep, dark black is not the result of any sort of dye …read more Continue reading Ultra-Black Material, Sustainably Made from Wood
Vantablack, which is the world’s darkest material, could be in for some competition. Canadian scientists have created a super-black substance that has the potential to be cheaper, hardier and easier to manufacture … and it’s made out of wood.Continue R… Continue reading Valuable “super-black” material derived from plasma-treated wood
Tulip trees have been around for millions of years, but a new analysis of their structure has revealed a previously unknown type of wood. The finding could explain why the trees are great at sequestering carbon and help our efforts to do the same.Conti… Continue reading New type of carbon-capturing wood discovered in nature