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Creatures made from recycled tires
Sculptor Yong Ho Ji makes the most astounding sculptures -- animals, people, fanciful mutants -- out of recycled tires. This is great work. Yong Ho Ji (via This is Colossal)
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Çurface: an industrial surface made from compressed coffee and melted coffee...
We've been in the market for a new surface for our kitchen's eating area (a wide shelf that's set into a wide space knocked through into the sitting room serviced by four tall stools) for a year now....
View ArticleWell-engineered pizza box keeps grease out of the cardboard for easier recycling
Scott from Scott's Pizza Tours is obsessed with pizza box engineering, and posts YouTube videos about the pizza boxes people send him from all over the world. In this installment, he explores a...
View ArticleHarvesting power-cells from dead laptop batteries for home electronics projects
Geekdad has a bunch of tips for using the round power-cells from a dead laptop battery. These cells, called "18650s," look like AA batteries, but have very different characteristics. Your laptop...
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Bookshelf made from books
Tom took a pile of books left over from a jumble sale and made a bookshelf out of them: So many books are thrown away each year, and although recyclable, the emotional bond that is attached to books...
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Recycling in Antarctica
When I recycle, I have to separate out metal, plastic, chipboard, glass, plain paper, glossy paper, and newsprint. That sounds like a lot of separating, until you compare it to the recycling protocol...
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Turning artificial joints into scrap metal at the crematorium
Combine the spike in commodity metal prices with advances in geriatric medicine and the increased trend to cremation and what do you get? A thriving trade in artificial joint harvesting and recycling....
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For Passover fun in Israel, a safari of animals crafted from Coca-Cola trash
A monkey sculpture is pictured on a pick-up truck before it is placed in an exhibition at Hiriya recycling park, built on the site of a former garbage dump near Tel Aviv. The Coca-Cola Recycled Safari...
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Prom dress made from cardboard
Maura, a Missouri high-school student, has a long history of making awesome prom-dresses (there was the goth one, the one made out of Doritos bags, and the one made of pull-tabs). This year, she...
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Building covered in old clothes
The Guardian's Deborah Orr is probably right that the Marks and Spencer "shwopping" initiative is "an ugly word for a dubious enterprise", but I am rather taken with this promotion for the program....
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Dutch Masters portrait subjects clothed in foam packing sheets
Netherlands artist Suzanne Jongmans has created a series of portraits in the style of the Dutch Masters, creating the costumes out of soft packing foam sheets. She needs to team up with the artist who...
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HOWTO make Star Wars vehicles from 3.5" floppies
Instructables user Jetpack5 created a series of Star Wars space vehicles out of floppy-disk parts and office supplies. There's even a rubber-band-ball Death Star! Also in the set: a Millennium Falcon...
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Diaper-box AT-AT
Here's Off-Beat Mama's photos show how you can build your own AT-AT out of empty diaper boxes. What a fantastically shitty idea! I have a dozen nappies boxes sitting around, and recently decided...
View ArticleHOWTO make a school computer lab for free with "broken" computers and...
Elizabeth on ifixit tells us the heartwarming story of Robert Litt, a teacher at ASCEND, "a small arts K-8 school in the Alameda County School District." Litt needed a computer lab. His school had no...
View ArticleMeet "Big Trash"
Over the long run, keeping stuff like tree limbs and compostable waste out of landfills is good for cities. There's only so much space in a landfill and getting more land is extremely expensive. So why...
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Filabot: turn scrap plastic into 3D printer filament
Filabot, "The Personal Filament Maker" is an ongoing open-source hardware kit project that aims to perfect a plastic grinder/melter that you can use to turn scrap plastic (including failed 3D...
View ArticleWhere old TV screens go to die
Time was, we used to recycle old cathode ray tubes from TVs and computer monitors into new ones. Obviously, though, there's no longer a demand for new CRTs — or the specialized leaded glass they're...
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Filamaker: turn misbegotten 3D prints back into filament
Joris sez, "I interviewed Marek Senický about his Filamaker today. The device is a grinder and filament extruder that recycles waste plastic and turns old unwanted 3D prints into new ones. I think its...
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Send a Togolese 3D printer made out of ewaste to Mars
Afate is a Togolese hacker who uses the WoeLab makerspace in Lome, Togo (the first makerspace in west Africa). He's invented a 3D printer made out of the ewaste that is piled high in...
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Kickstarting an album of music made from junk hardware - and plans for...
Chiron sez, "I'm making an album and music video on Kickstarter, creating music and art from the most powerful tools human kind has ever discarded. Using recycled electronics, you journey into a...
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