Become an Eco-Macgyver
Ideas pulled from Emails:
- Milk Jug/carton planters.
- 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
- 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
need to make the electrolyte and jar, milliamp meter and testing)
- Sanded pennies salt water volta piles (make had a article on it), can make throwies. -adric & walter
- plastic bag “Tyvec clone” ironing plastic bags together to make a
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
- 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)
- adric
- Coke Bottle Air/Water rocket toy.
- adric
- Slow Photography, Taking pictures using blueprint paper, Snus tin pinhole throwies,
- adric
- Small garden composter
- geoff
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
- Come up with uses for all those small 8“x8” plexi glass windows.
- other cool recycled things ideas????