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Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers and supporters who have been building The Global Village Construction Set for a post-scarcity world. They have created forty different machines needed to create  small self sufficient resilient communities able to live off their local resources. It is described as a life-size Lego set. They hope to have it ready for replication in two years.

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Ray Villafane  has an online tutorial on how he does these carvings.

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Damia Soler created a website that makes sundials. Type in your location, and it’ll give you a printable paper sundial customized to function there, provided that you point it in the right direction. And the site will tell you orient you in that direction.

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Here’s a pretty nice solution for diffusing on (or off) camera strobes by dressing them with a small and light weight soft-box. Link

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Briton Steve Bodiley shows you how to build a bicycle sidecar using a wooden body welded upon a steel frame.

The team from Southern Fried Science tackles stitch-and-glue boat building, with rather impressive results.

If you live near the water, or want to live near the water, or just want people to think you live near the water, you need a boat. It doesn’t have to be much of a boat, just enough to get you, your beverage cooler, a few fishing poles, and a healthy disregard for personal safety out far enough that you can’t get twitter on your smart phone. Link