DIY section

[herp_doctor]

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Anybody here knows any DIY home-projects? Any home-projects you can do with simple everyday items.

I know there's a lot of these we can find floating around here in cyberspace. But i want to create a healthy thinking environment where we share off our ideas, and not copy / pasting links of ideas from the web. So as much as possible, let's keep it original. Even if the ideas you have may or may have similirities with the lot, atleast you have your own version of it.

A step-by-step method coupled with a few sketches / drawings or photos would be great.

Pls post it here...

[grovestreet]

hydroponics... hehehe

[herp_doctor]

hydroponics... hehehe

Can you share us how you do it? Ie. your medium, the specimen you're trying to grow, your set-up. Most importantly, the step-by-step method how to construct your DIY Hydroponics?


My set-up would be very simple. I'll use a water-retaining gel, a large pvc pipe cut-down in half with drainholes at the bottom. For the plants, i'll use potatos, onions, even watermelons. They grow mighty fast with this set-up. For the solution, a 14-14-7 fertilizer solution would be great (a little thanks to my father for teaching me how to mix-up my own fertilizer solution.), but even those commercial ones would work wonders too, if you know how to scale them down a bit for your DIY.

[stealthghost]

Edit: oops.. sorry..! I think nasayup ko'g pasabot sa thread..

Electronics akong i-suggest unta..

But you said, every ordinary items.. hmm..

nice ni da.. I do hope someone could render their ideas..

[grovestreet]

Can you share us how you do it? Ie. your medium, the specimen you're trying to grow, your set-up. Most importantly, the step-by-step method how to construct the DIY?

i'm still researching bro... wala pa sad ko financial resources para equipments. Pero after graduation mao ni ako plano nga project. Interesado lang ko ani... you can find videos on youtube.com but mostly vague ra kaayo ilaha mga DIY videos.

[COMCAM]

hydroponics... hehehe

hydroponics? the planting of veggies without soil? Refer to Dept. of Agriculture

[personalmgt]

Try RepRap: https://www.istorya.net/forums/scienc...ototypers.html

[handsoff241]

@TS hey nice thread! FTW!

may ta naay mag post ug DIY unsaon pag harness sa gas sa septic tank hehehe untapped energy in the urban areas... honestly.

[herp_doctor]

Ok then, lemme start. Im abit of an outdoor bloke, and i love to eat. So i'll start with food. This is my version of DIY Dehydrating Food (Red-meat for this instance).


MEAT DEHYDRATION


Here's how to dehydrate the meat:

Ground Meat (ie redmeats: beef, pork, venison,). Best if coupled with pasta or bread for that on the trail spaghetti, pizza or meatball meal.

Brown in frying pan or cook in microwave till all redness is gone. Drain off all fat. "Flash off" meat (Add 1/2 cup water to cooked meat, bring to a boil, and drain off all fluids. This process is to reduce fat to as little as possible.). Repeat flashing off process two or three times. Spread crumbled, cooked ground meat on tray. Dry in dehydrator for up to eight hours or overnight turning meat occasionally to ensure even drying (this can be done in an oven as long as the temperature is under 150 degrees centigrade and door is opened a bit to vent moisture). When it’s done, drain the fat. Put the cooked beef into a strainer and run a teapot of boiling water through it. The water will drain off most of the grease, which is what causes early spoiling. It will also leach out some, but not all, of the nutrients but none of the taste. Throw it in your dehydrator again for a day until it is VERY dry and crumbles into powder when you break it up in your hand.The stuff looks and feels like large pieces of ground coffee.

With fish and seafoods. Cut them out open, clean them out with their bones, scales, shells, etc. Wash properly with water and rinse. Then soak them in 40% salt-solution for about 2hrs, then sun-dry them. after, place them inside your dehydrator (or then oven again, temperature set lower to about 80 degrees centigrade, so not to cook the delicate seafood meat. We want to dehydrate it, not cook it!). Remember to vent out moisture in your dehydrator or oven, to prevent your food from cooking. And also drying them out properly.

Put the dried meat in a ziplock sandwich bag (you might have to use two separate bags). Squeeze as much air out of the bag as possible and close (you can squeeze it out or compress and fold it. do not use anything to tie it with, as the crease might end up puncturing the bacg and ruining your food by letting air leaking into it). Put that bag(s) in a second bigger bag. It should be a ziplock freezer bag. Store in freezer until the trip.

You can then use it for soups and stews, in sauce and chili, spaghetti or pizza in the field. Rehydrate it by letting it sit in a plastic bag with a litre of water per kilogramme for about 30mins to an hour. It will last about 4 weeks in a zip lock bag, and it lasts a year - from one summer to the next - just sitting on a shelf if it’s vacuum sealed.

Enjoy!!

[herp_doctor]

@TS hey nice thread! FTW!

may ta naay mag post ug DIY unsaon pag harness sa gas sa septic tank hehehe untapped energy in the urban areas... honestly.

I an remember my father drew up a design for this 20years ago, and is currently being used by a housing community in Leyte (where we used to live before, a long time ago).

All you need to do is drain off the methane gas built-up on top of the sludge, and slurry off the water around the sludge before draining to create a healthy environment for the bacteria to grow, thus giving more methane. And not to mention increasing the pressure inside the septic tank just a wee bit.


Lterally a "shitfull of gas", i might say. But it's free, renewable energy..