We just built a Hexayurt H13 at the Cloughjordan Ecovillage. The H13 was designed by Scott Davis and Dylan Toymaker. The H13 adds one panel to the “classic” H12 hexayurt, but that one extra sheet of plywood gets an 8′ roof line and three times the walkable space inside the hexayurt. It’s a really beautiful [...]
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Read more →Solar funnel from Jonathan Sanderson on Vimeo. Thank’s so much to Jonathan Sanderson and Elin for making the film. The Giant Solar Funnel is a solar funnel solar cooker than is very powerful, safe, and can be made in a few minutes from a big sheet of cardboard or corrugated plastic using just tape, glue [...]
Read more →Dealing in Security – understanding vital services and how they keep you safe Dealing in Security – understanding vital services and how they keep you safe Vinay Gupta Publish at Scribd or explore others: Other Research Science http://bit.ly/scim2 has the original PDF. This tool is under an open license, and I’m very interested in taking [...]
Read more →Feel that earthquake today, SoCal? In California, we know how to roll — and how to shake and rattle, too. We’ve got five iPhone applications to help you get the details when your nerves are shaken by a quake — or to check in with that nutty West Coast relative as you sit safely tucked [...]
Read more →(SketchUp & other files) The Tribike is an attempt to create a “hexayurt for transport” – something minimally functional that can be made with common parts. The core idea is to use a tetrahedron as the basic form – the most minimal shape for enclosing space, and one of the strongest. Steel tube would be [...]
Read more →(thanks for the pic, Jonathan) At the Maker Faire Newcastle, we made a new kind of Solar Funnel solar cooker. The design is very simple but very effective: take a 4×8 sheet of thin corrugated plastic (2mm is probably ideal, we used a light grade of 4mm) and cover one side with ordinary tinfoil using [...]
Read more →This is the talk I delivered at Oekonux, an open source hardware type conference in Manchester this weekend. Here is an MP3 audio version of the talk. Here are the slides. They ask the questions that the talk attempts to answer. Here are the 10 questions we addressed. 1. What is Poverty? 2. How can [...]
Read more →Does a really nice write up of the Hexayurt Project.
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