Check out our YouTube channel, we have some opensource projects there from the last couple of years, but we're sort of rebooting the channel...
https://youtube.com/c/AppliedTechnologyLab
https://youtube.com/c/AppliedTechnologyLab
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We all have garden and kitchen waste that could make good compost for gardening and growing our own food.
If you have room for a garbage can, you have room to make your own compost. It's as simple as drilling holes in it for ventilation and mixing it up with a shovel.
If you want to get fancy and have room for it, you can make a tumbler like this. There are also commercial tumblers but this caster wheel system is a fraction of the price and allows for multiple barrels to be tumbled with just a single system.
https://youtu.be/V7aw4Oqcc0o
If you have room for a garbage can, you have room to make your own compost. It's as simple as drilling holes in it for ventilation and mixing it up with a shovel.
If you want to get fancy and have room for it, you can make a tumbler like this. There are also commercial tumblers but this caster wheel system is a fraction of the price and allows for multiple barrels to be tumbled with just a single system.
https://youtu.be/V7aw4Oqcc0o
YouTube
Cheap & Simple Compost Tumbler
This is our very quick, simple, and cheap compost tumbler for heavy-duty HDPE 50 gallon barrels. You can have multiple barrels and use this very simple tumbler for all of them, saving space, time, & money.
Where to Find our Work
Blog: https://applied…
Where to Find our Work
Blog: https://applied…
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even in the best of times it's great to save money & be as vertically integrated as possible. With inflation rising everywhere - your personal garden or egg-laying chickens will benefit from creating cycles using very little input.
Duckweed is easy to grow, grows very quickly, keeps your outdoor fish happy and healthy by cleaning the water, and is an excellent source of food for your chickens!
A free source of food to help cut back on what you need to buy is a win-win no matter what's going on.
https://youtu.be/thEwFZYVa7M
Duckweed is easy to grow, grows very quickly, keeps your outdoor fish happy and healthy by cleaning the water, and is an excellent source of food for your chickens!
A free source of food to help cut back on what you need to buy is a win-win no matter what's going on.
https://youtu.be/thEwFZYVa7M
YouTube
Duckweed: Free Chicken Food - Just Add Water (and Fish)
Creating relatively closed cycles cuts down on waste, reduces costs, and enhances self-sufficiency. Egg-laying chickens are a great way to obtain humane, free range chickens but requires inputs like chicken feed.
However, if you keep fish outdoors like…
However, if you keep fish outdoors like…
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Chickens: CHECK
Compost: CHECK
Something to use the compost for? ....
The next part of our urban farm is the container garden - HDPE barrels that are cheap and easy to find make a durable, sizable container for growing just about anything in it. We show you how to prep the containers for use...
https://youtu.be/bpLv-n9BS0E
Compost: CHECK
Something to use the compost for? ....
The next part of our urban farm is the container garden - HDPE barrels that are cheap and easy to find make a durable, sizable container for growing just about anything in it. We show you how to prep the containers for use...
https://youtu.be/bpLv-n9BS0E
YouTube
Container Garden: Getting Started!
Our urban farm continues to grow. After building a chicken coop and a composting system, it's now time to create some grow space to actually use the compost.
Enter container gardening. It is a way to put a garden any place you can fit a container. And if…
Enter container gardening. It is a way to put a garden any place you can fit a container. And if…
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As our solar panels rest, the lights in the coop work overnight, allowing our chickens to eat when as much as they want, rest when they want, and keeps insects like mosquitoes away...
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https://youtu.be/tiYu5hsRysA
Here's a quick overview of what we're working on - a compost barrel thermometer - to track if our hot composting process is going well or not...
Here's a quick overview of what we're working on - a compost barrel thermometer - to track if our hot composting process is going well or not...
YouTube
Building a Giant Compost Thermometer: Prototyping Phase
We needed a thermometer that could help us track the temperature inside our large 150-200L compost barrels - so we are designing and 3D printing one! Here is...
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The 3D printed case for our compost barrel thermometer (to track the "hot composting" process) is done and everything fits! Hope to have this all up and operating before the end of the week!
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Our new 3D printed compost thermometer at work. It eventually reached 46 degrees Celsius, quite hot but not hot enough.
With this thermometer we can work on ways to improve the composting process and also possibly automate data logging or ever a process such as adding moisture or perhaps automatically turning the barrels.
With this thermometer we can work on ways to improve the composting process and also possibly automate data logging or ever a process such as adding moisture or perhaps automatically turning the barrels.
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Midnight solar repair. A 'visitor' (a giant monitor lizard) regularly tramples our solar panels which are mounted on a brick wall near our chicken coop.
The solar panels charge lights that light up the coop at night.
The solar panels charge lights that light up the coop at night.
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Here is recent make of one of our free 3D printing projects, a replica of an Edo period Japanese lantern which you can find here:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2353657
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2353657
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building soil for an urban garden, so we can grow more of our own food, and create better economic resiliency.
https://youtu.be/AfxZLXSltWw
https://youtu.be/AfxZLXSltWw
YouTube
Building Soil for your Urban Farm
We cover some basic processes used when building soil for an urban container garden using very limited space.
We're using a process called "hot composting" where organic material (2 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen) is added to a barrel that is then tumbled…
We're using a process called "hot composting" where organic material (2 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen) is added to a barrel that is then tumbled…
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