Volume 18

46: The Modern Homestead: A Bird’s-Eye View

Energy use and monitoring, plus geeked-out gardening.

48: Home Energy Dashboards

New ways to see your power usage in real time. By Bob Parks

52: Power Down with DMAIC Reduce your electricity bill with the engineer’s favorite problem-solving method. By Tom Anderson

56: Build a Heat Exchanger

Fresh air without the energy loss. By Charles Platt

60: Off-Grid Laundry Machine

Make a washer that needs no electricity. By Michael Perdriel

68: Making the Energy Garden Food + biofuels: an 18-month experiment in self-sufficiency. By Julian Darley and Celine Rich-Darley

71: Kitchen Garden Quantitative Analysis

Take food independence to the max. By Esperanza Pallana

72: Drip Irrigation

Grow healthy vegetables the automatic way. By Erik Knutzen

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ON THE COVER: The Peggy 2 LED kit will display any message you like. Here’s one we like. Photograph by Garry McLeod. Styled by Sam Murphy and Ed Troxell.

Columns

1: Welcome: ReMake America

Makers are the best hope for the future. By Dale Dougherty

12: Reader Input

Stirling engines, Einstein’s Riddle, and the joys of generalism.

15: Maker’s Corner: Makers Market

A new market for makers to sell their products. By Dan Woods

17: Make Free: Open Government

If you can’t open government, you don’t own it. By Cory Doctorow

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26: Making Trouble: Spending Carbon Wisely Calculating our remaining energy supply. By Saul Griffith

28: Hands On: Landscapes of Possibility Making and using the futurescape. By Bruce Sterling

78: Make Your Own Worm Compost Bin

Let wigglers take out the trash. By Celine Rich-Darley

82: Humanure for the City Dweller

Embrace your body as a soil-maker. By Nance Klehm

84: Solar-Heated Water

How one couple proved the skeptics wrong. By Dan Bassak

87: Sustainability Roundup

Energy, home, and garden projects from our past volumes.

40: Personal Fab: Building a CNC Mill Make things with a mill that you make. By Tom Owad

42: The Country Scientist: Image Analysis

Easily analyze scientific images. By Forrest M. Mims III

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