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what size of batttery can be charge with a 43w solar panel? can i connct it...
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Can anyone help me identify this plant, please?
Found in my new Community Garden plot, among the weeds that had sprung up over the winter. I was going to pull it, but then it starting looking to me like it might be a desirable garden plant. A few...
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MINI-MUFFIN CRAYONS... A New Life for Broken Crayons!
''''Broken crayons?!? Don't throw them away...MAKE OLD CRAYONS-NEW AGAIN! Up-cycle your broken crayons into MINI-MUFFIN SIZED CRAYONS. You will love the tie-dyed look and your young artists will love...
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Make a greenhouse from an old carport
Turn that old portable metal pipe carport into a greenhouse. I used one section (out of 3) of an old metal pipe portable garage (the plastic cover rotted off) for the starting frame.Using the carport's...
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Recycle Denim: Floor mat from Waistbands and inseams
This comfy floor mat is made from recycled waistbands, hem cuffs, and inseams from old jeans. These are often the wasted scraps left after other projects with recycled denim. To see how to efficiently...
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Pocket-Sized Candle- Shed Some Light
have you ever needed more light? Maybe you want to add a more romantic mood over your dinner table? These candles are for you! In this instructable, I will show you how to create your own candles. I...
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Recycled Juice Pouch Lunch Bag
This is a great inexpensive project to do with and for your kids before they go back to school! They learn about recycling and reusing things they would normally throw away and have the added bonus of...
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What is a good way to store reusable shopping bags?
They always end up scattered around our house, unless they find their way back to the car. Anyone interested in writing an Instructable for some type of storage container or system for reusable bags of...
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Reduce your liquid soap usage - FOR FREE
Liquid soap has many advantages over "normal" soap - it smells better, is a bit cheaper (depends on where and what sort of liquid soap you buy), easier to use and, to a certain degree, more hygienic...
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What is this plant?
My mum asked me to find out for her what this plant is. Any ideas anyone? We presume it's from one of the seeds that's fallen out of the bird feeder. She let it grow so she could find out what it is....
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How to Make a Laundry Water Recycler (Gray Water System)
For those interested in getting into gray water, this may be one of the easiest ways. I got this idea from Home Use of Graywater from the University of Arizona. The idea is very simple: Save the rinse...
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Recycled 5 Gallon Bucket Wall
A working experiment in reusing 5 gallon buckets as low-tech structural building units.Let me start off by saying that I'm only involved in this project in the design and tech side, no real labor yet....
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How to Make Your Home Environmentally Friendly
Having an environmentally friendly home is a simple way to help protect the environment.There are many DIY techniques that can be used to make your home more environmentally friendly. Most of the...
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I am building a v-axis wind turbine. I need to know what kind of DCmotor to...
The winds in my backyard aren't extremely strong, but I want my design to work and provide a good amount of power if possible. What kind of DC motor do I need? Is it easy to create a DC generator...
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Reusing Lightbulbs: as planters or mini terrariums
Light bulbs can be recycled in many forms and uses, although is not a new idea, check this site about reusing light bulb for chemical glassware testers , pretty cool, and here's another one using the...
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Portable Evaporative Cooler (swamp cooler)
In areas with low humidity, regular air conditioners don't work very well. A simpler solution uses water evaporation to cool and humidify air. These are called evaporative coolers or swamp coolers and...
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Don't chuck that broken umbrella!
With winter fast approaching there are often blustery showers. With high winds you will, more often than not, see broken umbrellas discarded in bins or on the roadside. There is no need to throw away a...
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Resurrecting the California Cooler
Coastal Northern California is blessed with a very moderate climate, generally on the cool side, especially at night. Before the refrigerator became common in households, denizens of this region took...
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How does the joule thief circuit work?
the best i can figure, the current coming through toroid turns on the transistor, then the collector drains the current to the negative, while pulling it from the emiter back through the diode to the...
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Scented Gift Bow made of Recycled Perfume Ads
For topping off the wrapping of a very special gift, make a one-of-a-kind bow with the added surprise of carrying an exotic designer scent! Your recipient need never know that this lovely and festive...
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Papaya Picker
Papays are big fruit; heavy, and often high up. After getting the picker fingers around the fruit, you pull the string to close the flexible "fingers". Twist the fruit to break the stem, and lower the...
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Plastic Paper Clips From Recycled Gift Cards
Do you ever want a paperclip that's at least a little different then every other paperclip out there? Metal paper clips are really useful, and do a great job, but sometimes I just want something a...
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Make Reusable Teabags and Coffee Filters
If you are looking to decrease your dependence on paper products a great way to cut down (and save money) is to make some reusable teabags and coffee filters. While those two items may not seem like...
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Transplant a Tree with a Giant Two Wheel Dolly
It's like a giant furniture mover's dolly for moving trees. This method works great for trees that a vehicle can't get to. When there's vehicle access the A-Frame method of tree moving works great ....
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How to make a Heating and Cooling Jacket
Project by CU Boulder GEEN 1400 Engineering Projects students: Diana George, Jenna Sobieray, Alex Cossoff and Chris Francklyn Have you ever dreamt about having a jacket that kept equilibrium? Well...
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Dead Computer Contest Winners
Instructables is happy to announce the winners of the Dead Computer Contest ! We put out the call for your dead computer creations and you have answered with over 100 spectacular new projects. As you...
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Original pinbadge recycling
Do you have a pinbadge from a boring conference or one which you found in the street? Have you discover and old forgotten badge in your room? This instructable tells you how to paint your old, boring...
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How To Enter the Coffee Cup Challenge
58 billion paper coffee cups are thrown in the trash each year. That's a lot! We think that there are some better ideas for paper coffee cups than just tossing them out so we teamed up with the betacup...
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My Solar Furnace
This is not completely my own design. You can find these all over the internet if you do a Google search or a search on you-tube. I built this because so many people pay so much money to heat their...
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DIY Green Projects - On ABC News
"We're going to look at some of the best Do It Yourself green projects" ABC just ran a piece interviewing Julie Gerstein from The Daily Green about their Heart of Green Awards. The interview...
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Coffee Cup Whirlygig
It's spring madness again and time to create our coffee cup version of the Flower Whirligig Robogigithingy This is a wind driven fanciful animated display. This is also a simulation of Eric...
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indestructible RECYCLING CHUTE
After you have slammed back a ice cold instructables indestructible ENERGY DRINK, it's time to recycle. This is a way to send your recyclables to the basement. It's inexpensive and not too hard to do...
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ROB ZOMBIE!!!!
(ANNOUNCEMENT: Answering the public concern about the Atari joysticks, I declare the controls were damaged, broken and without any possible reparation, so I gift them a second life. So relax everyone!...
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coffee cup purse
this bag is made entirely out of coffee cups both ceramic and paper. It was entirely hand sewn, with a bit of hot glue. (god the time i spent, really im just lazy). please please enjoy. (please)....
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Coffee Cup Papermaking
Making very cool paper can be actually quite easy. This instructable shows a method I have found to work very well, even for young children or people who have never done anything like making paper. If...
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Cheap and effective sanitizer
After cooking in the kitchen, I want to clean everything up and make sure to kill any remaining germs, but I'm not too keen on using bleach. Instead, you can use a couple of other items you may already...
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Win The Book "Designing For Re-use", Post Your Reused Items
We at instructables are hosting a mini-contest where you can win a new book! Post your own reuse project and win a brand new copy of the book "Designing For Re-use: The Life Of Consumer Packaging" by...
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5 Things to Do with An Old Shirt
The following instructable is a simple demonstration of how to upcycle an old shirt. This is a good project to do with children. It is easy, quick, zero cost and fun. It also has the added benefit of...
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Make robo-planters re-using home junk
(UPDATE: Check out for my new robo-planters pictures: http://www.instructables.com/id/New-Robo-planters/) Tired of simple or sissy planters? Do you want more attitude flowerpots? Well, it's your lucky...
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How to collect balcony rain water for free
I've recently started gardening on my small balcony, finally. It's lovely to see little green plants growing from tiny seeds and all, but sometimes I forget to water my plants because I just can't be...
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Bio fuel briquettes, compress paper pulp and sawdust into fuel bricks.
Project: To find a use for the large amount of sawdust produced from wood turning sawing firewood etc, the 2 choices had was to dunp / compost it or burn it. loose sawdust can be burned in a wood...
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How To Build A Bicycle Generator
The intention of this project is to build a straight forward human powered generator from a used bicycle and to use it to power light bulbs, blenders, cell phones, laptops, and other small appliances....
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DIY Cooling Systems
Keeping cool can be a real challenge. Keeping cool inexpensively even more so and doing it in an eco friendly fashion? No worries! Instructables can help. Here's a list of Instructables that will get...
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Green your stationery
It's pretty that your stationery , inclusive pencils and pens become green & fresh for your writing and school . Natural materials give you a new and fresh start . Also they have fragrance and...
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Using cowpat to store seeds
This image is (rather,used to be) a very common sight in rural India. Cow excreta is very rich in minerals has a surprising amount of uses; cow urine is used as a disinfectant and biofertilizer, and...
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Reusable Posty Notes
These are essentially note sized post-able whiteboards or simply reusable post-it notes. At my workplace we seem to use a ridiculous amount of post-it notes. Although must are discarded in the paper...
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Make Your Own Vacuum Sealer Bags On The Cheap!
I got a food sealer today so that I could store the processed meat from my SCRAPS project for long periods of time. [Actually I got two but I will explain that later.] I figured that I might as well...
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Strawberry Basket to Snowflake
This is a really easy instructable, kids can do it, the materials are inexpensive, it doesn't take a long time, and you can recycle those strawberry baskets saved from this Summer. Step 1 The...
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Pedal powered smoothie maker
A pedal powered blender for making smoothies at festivals and events had always seemed like a great idea. It brings in a number of concepts: firstly there is the ‘we don’t need electricity for...
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'No-welding' pedal generator stand
Renewable Energy Innovation has built a number of pedal generators for both adults and children. Pedal power helps to demonstrate the concepts of power and energy in an interesting way, along with...
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