I'm working on powering more and more of my apartment with solar. Doing the little I can with my fre hours of sunlight every day.
6W at best trickles into my batteries. I try to expand this as best as I can.
Technology for a Solar-Punk future.
Airships and hydroponic farms...
I'm working on powering more and more of my apartment with solar. Doing the little I can with my fre hours of sunlight every day.
6W at best trickles into my batteries. I try to expand this as best as I can.
I have a solar powered tomato plant
Right now, not much but building quickly!
My troupe and I just bought camper trailers to live in on a farm and have been fixing them up. In mine, the stove and fridge both run on electricity and gas and we're excited to set up a biogas digestion system, so I've been researching how to build that as well as convert the appliances to methane.
Excited to set up a biogas water heater for showering as well!
Currently, I am about to set up LoRa nodes and receivers. We already have two in my city and I'll be adding two more stationary nodes and getting some folks set up on the system so that's super fun!
Otherwise, we also have a communally owned household e-bike as well as a whole apothecary fit with multiple interesting tools for processing herbs and foraged food.
We of course also have our garden and have been planting lots of veg and herbs at the farm site we're moving too!
We'll be setting up solar panels eventually (a little out of our budget right now for our full energy needs), but biogas can tide us over a little while we adjust.
will be utilizing a composting toilet system as well as a hand-wash and hang dry laundry.
There's also a greenhouse in shambles that we'll repair and some goats, geese, & a pond on the farm :)
Doing permaculture style
Otherwise, we're also low waste and getting lower by the moment so gradually replacing all home items with sturdy, no-plastic alternatives. Working on repairing lots of clothes sewing by hand, repairing our shoes, and working with saponin-rich plants for soap is an ongoing process
I started messing about with Linux/Raspberry Pi, Arduino, LoRa/Meshtastic in the past couple of months due to being (further) breadpilled with podcasts about open source, greenhouse automation, autonomous text-based communication and such.
I'm not a tech person so I'm literally doing kid-level electronics tutorials on the Arduino ("Congratulations! You've made your first circuit!") and still get a kick out of running sudo apt-get update/upgrade and seeing the lines of text scrolling by.
But I really like the concept of appropriate tech in conjunction with open source "stuff" and, since I'm in a position of being able to listen to ~6.5 hours of podcasts during my workday, I might as well learn something. I hope to get comfortable with electronics for DIY solar eventually, too
Glad to hear about this! Everone has to start somewhere :) I am upost interested in these podcasts you mention, am an avid podcast enjoyer myself, so if you wouldnt mind sharing which ones you listen to?
Back from the asparagus patch!
(drops into Atlantic Canadian accent)
"Turn yer head for a minute and those fuckin' asparagus will be three foot tall and not worth a fiddler's fuck!"
Anyway, I digress....
Some of my go-to podcasts | relevant episodes, are below:
Poor Prole's Almanac | Skillshare episode on Arduino
It Could Happen Here | Meshtastic/LoRa episode | recent episode on off-shelf solar solutions
That LoRa episode led me to the guest's website for more information on his pretty cool shit: Hydroponic Trash/AnarchoSolarPunk
He was also featured on Live Like The World Is Dying, which I had been listening to for a while anyway | S1E49 – Andre on Solar Power, DIY Internet, Mesh Networks, and Solar Punk
Less radical podcasts I listen to are some of the maker-type folks like Simple Electronics and the (now discontinued?) Make: Magazine podcast.
That just about covers it, other than some of the solarpunk podcasts I listen to, but I kinda feel they - while informative and entertaining - aren't as...hands on (?)... as some of the links I shared above.
Cheers gang
SK0
Thanks for sharing all those. Since you mentioned arduino, I thought of sharing something that came to my attention quite recently, and admittedly I found it very disturbing. Before reading that I was an arduino fan, I'm not anymore. Anyways here it is: