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- Small garden composter
- geoff
- Come up with uses for all those small 8"x8" plexi glass windows.
- other cool recycled things ideas????
- My Big Fresnel Death Ray. (need a box of cheap uv cutting sunglasses
for anyone who wants to be around it,)
- Someone's Fuel Cell Solar Cell Car, (there next to the drill press
since we moved in, looks complete has a manual)
- Demo Power use with the Killowatt, LED VS CFL VS lightbulb, and or
phantom power demo.
- demo a Copper oxide home built solar cell (cooked the copper for the
cell the other day
- Geoff
- My Big Fresnel Death Ray. (need a box of cheap uv cutting sunglasses
- (still need a batch of sunglasses for anyone who wants to be around it)
- adric
- (still need a batch of sunglasses for anyone who wants to be around it)
- Someone's Fuel Cell Solar Cell Car, (there next to the drill press since we moved in, looks complete has a manual)
- Demo Power use with the Killowatt, LED VS CFL VS lightbulb, and or phantom power demo.
- demo a Copper oxide home built solar cell (cooked the copper for the cell the other day, (still need to test) -ad
- possibly have folks make zinc/pennies lemon juice volta piles (make
article on it, ive had limited success replicating)
- Sanded pennies salt water volta piles (make had a article on it), can make throwies. -adric & walter
strong fabric (someone posted a link here
- Wine Bottle Recycling? (the rack rails i put along side of the
building I think we could bolt in a scribe and a bottle stop and clamp that in the benchmate box i have to score them)
- My junk built Solar Shop heater. (hopefully fully thermal switched
and solar powered by then. (wrong season, but shows how some junk plus $1.50 can lend some warmth to a chilly garage
strong fabric (someone posted a link here
- lexi?
- Wine Bottle Recycling?
- gabe
- My junk built Solar Shop heater. (hopefully fully thermal switched and solar powered by then. (wrong season, but shows how some junk plus $1.50 can lend some warmth to a chilly garage ***adric
to spin the teeny pinwheel)
- Sanded penny voltaic pile battery/Led throwie?)
- Coke Bottle Air/Water rocket toy.
to spin the teeny pinwheel)
- adric
- Coke Bottle Air/Water rocket toy.
- adric
- Slow Photography, Taking pictures using blueprint paper, Snus tin pinhole throwies,
- adric
- Sanded penny voltaic pile battery/Led throwie?)
- Coke Bottle Air/Water rocket toy.
Ideas pulled from Emails:
- Milk Jug/carton planters.
- My Big Fresnel Death Ray. (need a box of cheap uv cutting sunglasses
for anyone who wants to be around it,)
- Someone's Fuel Cell Solar Cell Car, (there next to the drill press
since we moved in, looks complete has a manual)
- Demo Power use with the Killowatt, LED VS CFL VS lightbulb, and or
phantom power demo.
- demo a Copper oxide home built solar cell (cooked the copper for the
cell the other day need to make the electrolyte and jar, milliamp meter and testing)
- possibly have folks make zinc/pennies lemon juice volta piles (make
article on it, ive had limited success replicating)
- plastic bag "Tyvec clone" ironing plastic bags together to make a
strong fabric (someone posted a link here
- Wine Bottle Recycling? (the rack rails i put along side of the
building I think we could bolt in a scribe and a bottle stop and clamp that in the benchmate box i have to score them)
- My junk built Solar Shop heater. (hopefully fully thermal switched
and solar powered by then. (wrong season, but shows how some junk plus $1.50 can lend some warmth to a chilly garage
- Wind and sun powered yardlight. (tested it got it charged from nothing to a medium glow driving home, took about a 6mph wind
to spin the teeny pinwheel)
Other ideas:
- Gabe's big motor setup with a crank and a load. to show folks how
much work work it takes.
- We have lots of 12V gel cells, think about how to power things with
them, or demo some electrolysis
- Ive got an electric scooter in the back yard, needs a fair bit of
work, and probably wont
- Old UPS turned into a solar/battery/car 110V AC inverter.
- setting up the satellite tv dish, and my antenna tripod to warwalk/long distance link