super cheap, eco friendly, wooden pallet and adobe construction

This is a wonderful idea. Wooden pallets are available in every corner of the world and correspondingly inexpensive. Often they are scrapped. Sure the wood isn’t usually top quality but as internal structure for adobe it need only be srong, not pretty.

linkage: via green upgrader

sculptured cob stairway

Sustainable building techniques provide many opportunities for organic design. This stairwell is a great example of cob sculpture incorporated into the walls straw bale building.

linkage: via paint kettle black.com

slurpr ultimate wardrive wifi thief++

Ever got fed up with the slow speed of the neighbors wifi you are ‘borrowing’ for your Torrent download server? Well not to worry, Slurpr is here to save your day. Now you can steal ALL your neighbors wifi!

linkage: geektechnique 

windbelt micro-wind power generation

A new twist on wind turbines. This young inventor wanted a super cheap method for generating power on a micro scale and has achieved this by using a technique known as flutter. Wind flutter occurs when wind flows across a high tension strip causing it to flutter. The flutter effect is converted to energy at the end simply by placing the high tension strip between some coils.

linkage: Video via jetson green

beer bottle solar hot water invention

A Chinese farmer who wanted to give his mom hot water has made a roof top solar hot water heater using beer bottles and some tubing. Funnily enough, the neighbors has followed suit.

linkage: read some more on solar beer bottle heater

beautiful stained glass pc case

Not all computer cases are created equal.

linkage: via boredstop.com 

ultimate live performing rig

I have just posted this on VJ Forums

I am wondering what the ‘Ultimate’ (entry-level) live performing rig would consist of.

I am at the stage where I need to get a dedicated box, probably before a new years party next month.

I figure if I can work out what the ulitmate rig is, and the cost, I can take steps backwards until I hit my maximum price point.

I have been scrounging articles from around the place and have come up with a couple of possibilities. For obvious reasons a kick ass laptop would be pretty good. Nice and portable. Plenty of speed, and little power consumption. Something like an
Alienware Aurora™ m9700 or Sagar NP9890-V . The Alienware seem better specc’d with the Dual Sli cards. But there is a lot of bad talk about poor build quality and crappy service, 15% charges on returns etc etc. So I think it would be a bit silly to buy from them.

definitive pirate keyboard

Ok so you’re a regular swashbuckler. You live on a rusty and battered oil rig and ply your trade off the Caribbean Isles in fair weather or foul. Evey good pirate hulk these days has a fat broadband connection to while away those lazy summer days, so it should come as no surprise that you can get a custom keyboard. Especially designed for chatting away in messenger or irc.

new zealand sustains

Stumbled Across a blog story on the TreeHugger site about a couple trying to life an alternatively sustainable lifestyle on Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand. In 2004 they picked up 20 acres that accounted for everything on their wish list. The post is the first in a series on the authors stay there.

linkage: nz sustains (part one)

obi-wan the cursor – amazing project on make

So if you are like this guy with 4 screens and you sometimes loose which screen your cursor is on then you better just have a go at making an Obi-Wan 3d action figure cursor. I know I know. That doesn’t make much sense. Just watch the clip after the jump

official seal (sticker) generator

Ever wondered about quickly whipping up a few stickers? I sure have. Making a positive contribution to society ‘n all that. This seal generator site is a useful find and lets ‘An Official Seal sticker’ be created at your meddling in just a few moments.

excellent burning man photographs

Stumbled across this nice photo-journalist by the name of Gabe. There is an excellent series from Burning Man 2006. Absolutely amazing deco. I am thinking I may just have to make it there for next years party.

linkage: gabe kirchheimer burning man, main page

vancouver’s footpath gardens, photoblog

I think I may have mentioned this recently. Now I have the photo to show you what I mean. Vancouver’s central city residents have a habit of digging up the council’s grass edging a turning it into a garden. So lovely to see. It sure beats all this wasted water to keep lawns immaculate.

create your own office in your cubicle

Using nothing more than some cardboard lying about the office you can make a completely new office. Upgrade to the executive model now! (plans not included)

atlas gloves, DIY god control of google earth

That is a bit of a mouthful. God Control of Google Earth. You can literally grasp the world in your giant god like hands.

This is what the clever folks have to say about their on the cheap make-culture invention.

Atlas Gloves is a DIY physical interface for controlling 3D mapping applications like Google Earth. The user interface is a pair of illuminating gloves that can be used to track intuitive hand gestures like grabbing, pulling, reaching and rotating. The Open Source Atlas Gloves application can be downloaded here and operated from home using a webcam and two self-made illuminating gloves (or flashlights).