This week on TreeHugger , build your own solar generator on wheels , spider automaton to the rescue , a young loose ironware journal launches , inflatable solar LED light figure , and more !
1.Eraser turn Chalk Dust Into New Chalk Sticks
How do we work that old , quondam problem of chalk dust in classrooms ? Two designer recollect they have the solution .
2.Toilet Made from Computer Parts Gives New Meaning to purge Your Cache
The Royal Data Throne by Steven Rodrig would be quite the summation to your home .
3.Open Hardware Journal for Open Source Projects Launches First Issue
The journal is think to be a resourcefulness for people to share forcible or electronic labor as open source .
4.Inflatable Solar - Power Light Packs a Bright Punch
Quite different from any design we ’ve find before , the light is actually an inflatable , rainproof udder that hold an light-emitting diode bulb , and a solar jail cell on the outside .
5.Voltaic Launches New Solar Powered Backpacks
The company ’s most recent launching let in new solar chargers that can power up your laptop computer while latch on to a durable haversack .
6.Robot Spider Will Find You After A tragedy
You ’ve got to sleep with biomimicry , especially when the critters that robots are pattern after are those that can really fawn you out , like spiders . But this spider is not one you ’ll want to tend away from — in fact , it may just preserve your life-time .
7.Tank - same Robot Climbs Walls With Gecko - Inspired Feet
Simon Fraiser University researchers have conduct a pageboy from the gecko “ walk on any airfoil ” vade mecum and applied it to a automaton that looks a bit like a tank .
8.How to Build a Solar Generator on Wheels ( Video )
Consisting of two 80 James Watt solar panel , a marine deep cycle battery , and an inverter , the scheme is enough to power a lowly microwave , TV , laptop computer , or even some index tools .
9.Modern and Unusual Lamps Made From Plastic bottleful
Eco creative person Sarah Turner creates alone lamps from locally collect waste , include moldable bottles . She transforms trash into some rather amazing designs for internal ornament .
10.How Shopping With Your Cell Phone Will Help You Buy Green
There are two significant ways that this rise in using impudent telephone for shopping can pay off for those desire to minimize their carbon footprint during the vacation season ( and any time of the class ) .
11.Hack Your e - lector To Run on Solar Power
arrest out this great project from Instructables maker flapke — it walks you through how to set up solar panels into your e - reader , so that your twist can run straight off off sun power .
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