Skateboards are probably one of the toughest built sports gear out there (and probably the reason why skaters like to throw them up in the air for no reason). Haroshi, a skateboarder and artist in Japan, has devised a way to make some great art using old skateboards. I would have to say these are indeed works of art, definitely check it out here.
“As a skater, I want to take responsibility of reusing skateboards when they were no longer useable,” Haro
For those of you who tend to drink a lot of soda and/or beer, you might need a cool gadget like this DIY can crusher (built using a Basic Stamp) so you can automate the can-crushing process. Not only is it cool to recycle, it’s even better if you can make the whole recycling experience at the ease of pushing a button.
This is the “Cannihilator”, a pnuematic powered can crusher that is controlled by a BS2 on a modified Homework Board. My two sons, Jake-
What happens when you grow flowers on ordinary furniture? Take a look at some of the work designer Asif Kahn has created with his flower furniture, brilliant!
If you have old furniture laying around, this might be a great idea to turn them into garden art.
See below picture of how Asif has used strong indoor lights to grow the flowers.
designer Asif Khan has taken the subdued aesthetic of Gypsophila (better known as Baby’s Breath) and let it bloom into something splendid to sit on. Kahn began wor
Here’s an interesting eco-gadget that could proved to be pivotal in recycling all of indoor lights. The IllumiCharger uses solar cells to recycle you indoor lights and feeding your gadgets via USB ports.
The Illumi-Charger achieves this unprecedented feat by recycling light energy that permeates in any indoor space that has luminescence provided by fluorescent, compact fluorescent, or incandescent lighting. As solar calculators (available in every Walmart or drug store) utilized the light energy inside our
*Note – This is a guest blog post from Shannon Bell from ResidentialSolarPanels.org. Thanks Shannon! I’ve always wondered how government credits work with residential solar panels, now I know.
Over the years, you have seen your power bills increase for a variety of reasons. Sources are inconsistent, and methods to generate power are becoming more expensive. Ultimately, many of the resources we use are non-renewable.
Coal, gas and oil are finite commodities. To encourage people to reduce thei
Here’s a really cool set of DIY solar power bottle boat kits. If you have a lake nearby or even a pool in the backyard, it might be a great idea to get your kids started on eco-science experiments. $24.95 at SpheralSolar.com
This is a fun kit to build your own solar powered boat. You provide the recycled soda bottle and the kit has everything else you need.Includes complete instructions with 3 boat
OMG! This is so cool! Just when I thought there was nothing you can do with an old plastic toothbrush, I see this great instructable on how to make a bracelet out of your old toothbrush!
How cool is that! I can see all kinds of fashionistas wearing this everywhere in San Francisco and New York.
Hello, and welcome to the illustrated step-by-step process for making a toothbrush bracelet. This is a great way to reuse an item that you may have otherwise thrown out. In six simple steps you will turn your toothbrush into a one-of-a-kind fashion accessory!
As an avid motorcyclist, I don’t really worry about my gas too much as it gets as much as or better than most hybrid cars at 55MPG+, but this inventor decided to make motorcycles even more efficient by focusing on aero-dynamics. Based on his studies, 90% of drag at 55MPH is caused by air, not your wheels. So the above design was born, which gets 214MPG going 55MPH!
Now, I don’t see how I could ride that thing and look cool but I guess the point is about going far here. T
Here’s something I missed at CES 2010 but gladly this could be the invention of the decade, a water-to-hydrogen converter. Not only does it convert water to hydrogen, it stores the hydrogen efficiently in solid matter. This means that we could possibly forego gas stations in the future, perhaps just dump some water into your hydrogen-powered car. Exciting!
Named HYDROFILL(TM) unveiled at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The small desktop device simply plugs into the AC, a solar panel or a small wind turbine, automatically extracts hydrogen from it
You know every year, solar power is getting cheaper by the dozen, solar lights are everywhere including front yard of many homes that I see in my neighborhood. Well, there’s a way you can hack those cheap solar lights into solar LED bricks, this instructable shows you how. Brilliant.
With this in mind, I combed craigslist for some suitably shaped glass blocks, went to Home Depot for the appropriate solar light, stocked up on speaker wire and came up with the Solar Pow
