We've been working on a home garden including hens for fresh eggs, composting for a container garden, and an aquaponics system.
https://youtu.be/UrtK0TqOYgQ
https://youtu.be/UrtK0TqOYgQ
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3D Designed (SketchUp) Chicken Coop Finally Finished!
While a chicken coop might not seem like a project that fits in well with our regular workflow of 3D design and 3D printing - 3D design actually played a central role in this project.
With the coop finished and our chickens already moved in, happy, and…
With the coop finished and our chickens already moved in, happy, and…
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With the coop finished and our chickens already moved in, happy, and laying eggs, next will be more projects including 3D printed projects to automate and monitor the coop...
These projects including guides and plans will be published for free for people to use...
These projects including guides and plans will be published for free for people to use...
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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
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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
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Where to Find our Work
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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
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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
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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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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...
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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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