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Built a greenhouse out of reclaimed windows and scrap wood, took me an embaresing amount of time but it looks good now.
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Day 5 or 6 of working on the solar bike. The main bike is effectivaly finished. Decided to go lightweight on everything and it was definantly the way to go. On the back is a 24qt milk crate big enough to hold another few bike batteries. That has a thin as possible sheet of hobby plywood above it that is ziptied to the 50w flexible solar panel. And mounted to the milkcrate with hobby screws. The panel recharges the bike through a mppt step up charge controller. The front panel charges just a simple 5v battery pack for my phone. All in all, I think it turned out well.
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Sealed up the greenhouse from earlier and added growlights. All running off the solarpanel.
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Making dandelion mead with my Gf. She's trying to win a local contest for brewing. Since we had plently of dandelions in the yard, it was an obvious pick. You can use any dandelions in this as long as they're still yellow and they havent been sprayed with pestacides. Other ingedants are black tea, honey (2lbs per gallon), Lemon juice, and champagne yeast. Really easy to do, the secret is to seperate the yellows from the greens when gathering dandelions though.
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Added a stencil to the solarbike. Turned out pretty good for $3 spray paint
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Day 2 of the solar ebike project. I managed to get more power input on this thing, the problem is it's way more janky. With all the hinges and panels on them it's going to clang itself apart with a big enough pothole.
Oh well, I'll think of a solution.
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Converted an Ebike to run off of solar. Wasn't too hard but there are a few thing's it would be better to know beforehand. Will put together a guide once I'm done.
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Visiting my dad in st louis, he's doing some odd projects with windows on houses he's fixing up.
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First snow with the greenhouse and it's still at least 15f warmer in there than outside. I just wish I had more plants now.
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For my dad's birthday, he's been hinting he wants a windturbine. I went ahead and got him one, and reading that painting them will reduce bird colisions, stencil spray painted it to look like the st louis flag (city he's repairing). I have a feeling he'll like it.
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Decided to make my own permaculture map for everything that I'm growing around my house and workshop. It wasn't too difficult, let me know if it's difficult to read for anyone or if anyone wants advice making their own.
This map includes:
Apples Trees x4
Peach Trees x2
Cherry Trees x4
Japanese Plum Trees x2
Blue Damson Plum Tree x1
Fig Tree x1
Pecan Tree x1
Hazelnut Tree x1
Mulberry Tree x2
x8 Different Types of Berry Bushes
x9 Different types of Herbs
One Greenhouse made out of scavenged windows.
A Duckhouse that looks like a rabbit for legal reasons.
Two plots for perennial vegetables such as, horseradish, asparagus, and rhubarb.
And Seven Plots of Annual Vegetables that somehow take up the most of my time.
USDA Zone is 6B in South Kansas City.
#solarpunk#solarpunkdiy#permaculture#permaculture map#gardening#garden#maps#homesteading#farming#agriculture
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Ok Day 4 or so of the ebike project. Built a solar trailer with 200watts of output. About to cement the thing together and paint it. The question I have is should I keep the construction orange color or paint the thing forest green? Both would have the solarpunk emblam on them.
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My comment responding to you on your post about the autonomous tractor kept being removed: I couldn't find any info, but if you wanted to know a bit more, it looks like 4 ~300W panels and 4 ~150amp hour batteries. Panels>charge controller>batteries>inverter>microcontroller like raspberry pi or arduino running a platform like OpenMower with GPS unit>actuators and motor controller. Probably has 433mhz or wifi or something for local control too. Hard to guess what electric motor, you wouldn't want to use anything more powerful than necessary.
Neat, none of that is really complicated other than the code. It would probably take ages to actucaly fine tune it though. Didnt know about openmower will look into that.
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