Primitive Technology: Tile Capped Mud Walls
AdultsCreativityEducationNature...I built Mud walls and capped them with roof tiles to protect them from rain. Mud walls if left uncovered in wet weather will dissolve in the rain and collapse.
Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...With the wet season only 2 months away and thatch being an impermanent material, I needed to make more roof tiles for a new hut that will withstand the next deluge.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows (uses water instead of leather)
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...I built a Water Bellows. It’s an upside-down clay pot with an inlet valve and an outlet spout. The inlet valve is simply a hole in the pot with a leaf plastered to the inside with wet clay so that it forms a one-way flap valve.
What Speakers That Cost $370,000 Sound Like | WIRED
AdultsConstructionCreativityTechnology...What does it sound like when you listen to a speaker that’s roughly the price of the home you put it in?
Mapping Better Bike Routes
YouthCitiesConstructionTechnology...Finding ways for cities to be more sustainable is what Carter Jonas aims to achieve with the help of GIS technology.
Primitive Technology: Geopolymer Cement (Ash and Clay)
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...I have made wood ash cement before under the assumption that it was the calcium in the ash that gave it its cementitious properties...
Primitive Technology: Wet Season Destroys Thatched Workshop
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...The thatched workshop where I produce bricks, pottery, cement and charcoal for various projects was destroyed by prolonged rain from the wet season.
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...I tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
AdultsConstructionCreativityNature...I tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Chandigarh a perfectly planned city?
AdultsConstructionCreativityHistory...Explore the construction of the futurist city Chandigarh, a project of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and planned by Le Corbusier.
Primitive Technology: Crab and Fish Trap
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...I made a fish trap from cane and tested it over the course of a year catching various aquatic animals.
How This Guy Makes the World's Best Puzzle Boxes | Obsessed | WIRED
AdultsConstructionCreativityGaming...Kagen Sound is an artisan of remarkable skill, engineering and constructing incredibly intricate puzzle boxes made entirely of wood.
Inside Japan’s Earthquake Simulator
AdultsConstructionCreativityTechnology...This is the world’s largest earthquake simulator, here’s how it works.
Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...I made a volute shaped blower where the housing for the fan is volute shaped, that is to say a widening spiral to test the effectiveness of a one way spinning impeller.
Primitive Technology: Brick and Charcoal Production
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...In this video I use the thatched hut to fire bricks and make charcoal in for the first time.
Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Insulated Furnace
AdultsConstructionCreativityNature...I made a furnace insulated with wood ash to smelt iron in. Furnace insulation stops heat being lost from the walls of a furnace and so increases the heat within the furnace.
The Figure 8 Knot Has Never Failed. Why?
AdultsConstructionEducationPhysics...Modern roped rock climbing, one of the nerdiest sports, relies almost entirely on a single type of knot for safety: the figure eight knot.