In the near future, you should be able to control all of your house heating system and even hot water via a web interface. But for those of you who don’t want to wait for that, you can make your own like Nicholas did, a DIY web interface control system for your central heating and hot water made possible by a linux box and some relays.
If you can either find or have an old fridge, you can easily use the back of the fridge to re-make a solar thermal water heater that can easily burn your hands.
This method doesn’t use any actual solar panels but uses a reflective surface and the heater bars of the old fridge to heat the water, pretty incredibly simple yet very effective.
A word of warning, this panel works VERY WELL. We tested it on a very sunny day and within seconds the water coming out of the panel was hot e
Just in time for Valentines Day, you can learn how to make your own edible body paint and go crazy on each other. Of course, this might be great for many other uses. That, I will leave it up to your imagination.
Homemade Edible Body Paint #1
Step 1, Create a Gel Mix:
In small saucepan blend and cook over low heat:
Carefully add :
When I was growing up in Korea, it was pretty common to see people making their own soy sauce including my mom, who used to have 3 barrels of soy sauce that lasted us about 10 years. I used to wonder why it took so long to make soy sauce but it lasts a lifetime once you make it.
Soy sauce can be created along with fermented soy bean paste, which is another by-product while making soy sauce.
Soy sauce has scientifically been proven to help prevent Cancer and other diseases(One of the Top 10 ant
Wow, check out this modded solar powered panels that “track” the sun and provide your house with nice hot water. (Videos after the jump!)
The site seems to be in Russian but it looks like it’s even hooked up to update information in real-time to the visitors.
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEPA4Y1sq8E
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaNkXtT9LU
