Monthly Archives: February 2013

Indoor (small) Vermicompost

Posted on February 21, 2013 by robertwilkie

Nice write-up and Idea on using 2 buckets to make a worm composter.  But…it still could smell so I would put it outside, and It would be nice if the buckets could be rotated.  This one maybe worth trying in … Continue reading →

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Homemade Solar Hotwater heater

Posted on February 21, 2013 by robertwilkie

Another nice write-up on how to make a solar hotwater heater from scratch.  I think this might be something worth scaling down and putting in a kids playhouse for hot water. http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Solar-Water-Heater-forced-circulation-wit/

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How to Make a Bullroarer

Posted on February 21, 2013 by robertwilkie

Nice write-up on how to make one of these.  This would be a good outdoor kid project…with just one kid at a time. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-A-Bullroarer

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Even NASA is using Arduino

Posted on February 21, 2013 by robertwilkie

Interesting article where even NASA does some initial tinkering/prototyping with arduinos. http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/21/arduino-nasa/  

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How to uninstall a Windows License to reuse it

Posted on February 20, 2013 by robertwilkie

I think about all the machines I have built after err…destroying one, and then getting annoyed with the Windows License Manager and have to…err tweak it to install.  If I had known this I could have saved myself alot of … Continue reading →

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Use Acrylic to make enclosures

Posted on February 20, 2013 by robertwilkie

OK so you don’t have a CNC to cut all your materials to size to make an enclosure, and you want folks to see it.  Well this article goes on about how to do it by hand with arcylic.  Includes … Continue reading →

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Use a lego machine to make clothe

Posted on February 20, 2013 by robertwilkie

Nice idea, where basically the author made a wheever out of legos.  I wonder how long those plastic parts would last doing this work. http://gizmodo.com/5985086/who-needs-to-knit-when-you-can-use-a-lego-machine-that-makes-clothes-automagically

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Whats this got to do with Xerox

Posted on February 20, 2013 by robertwilkie

Its mostly an article about genomes and mapping them and the privacy issues around them.  What is this got to do with Xerox.  Well actually it involves PARC which is building tech for this.  Not so much Xerox.  PARC is … Continue reading →

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Q&A with U.B. CEO of Xerox

Posted on February 20, 2013 by robertwilkie

A very fluffy Q&A with Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox.  You can tell the questions must have been staged.  The two bits I  found interesting is the justification for the “big” cuts in R&D is that with moving into software … Continue reading →

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Amazon AWS anounces OpsWorks

Posted on February 20, 2013 by robertwilkie

This is interesting since it sounds like OpsWorks would eliminate some of the need for tools like chef and puppet to configure new instances (vm machines) in your cloud.  It sounds like it can take chef recipes and just use … Continue reading →

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