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winduptoy

When I build an earth house, I won't have the luxury of a large crew of helpers most of the time. I'm struggling to figure out how to get a big load of dirt 8 to 12 feet up in the air more easily than one 5-gallon bucket at a time.

The farm tractor I have access to won't reach that high with its bucket.

Anybody aware of any #lowtech designs for cranes or lifts? The catch is that it has to be portable because it needs to be repositioned as I build each wall, so I can't just sink a telephone pole in the ground and call it good.

I'm thinking a block and tackle would come in handy but I just can't picture the machine...

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Low-Tech Journal

Un style pixel art rétro, volontairement daté, avec une palette de 32 couleurs et des contrôles simplifiés (croix directionnelle + 2 boutons). L’idée : recréer une réalité alternative du jeu vidéo, avec ses mascottes funky, ses influences à peine voilées (Zelda, Metroid, Ghost & Goblins…), et ses contraintes techniques assumées.
escapethecity.life/low-tech-uf #gaming #retrogaming #lowtech

retro-gaming low-tech
EscapeTheCity · Low-tech gaming : UFO 50, le meilleur hommage aux jeux vidéo des années 90'Écologie lucide et autonomie
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Raphaël Ventura

Bonjour Mastodon ! Une courte #introduction après avoir passé un bon moment en observateur 👀.

Je viens des #Maths appliquées, et continue à m’intéresser aux sujets liés à la tech, quand elle me semble politiquement émancipatrice : #LowTech, #DIY, #LogicielLibre, #DonnéesOuvertes, etc.

Au quotidien, beaucoup de temps passé à farfouiller de la #Musique, un peu de #Cyclisme et de la #Cuisine 🤤

Mes pronoms : il/lui

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Hello Mastodon!

A brief #Introduction post after some time as a fediverse observer 👀.

I come from applied #Maths, and am still quite interested in related tech topics when they lead to more freedom and emancipation: #LowTech, #DIY, #FreeSoftware, #OpenSourceSoftware, #OpenData, etc.

In everyday life, a lot of my time is spent digging (and sometimes playing) some #Music, a bit of #Cycling, and #Cooking 🤤

My pronouns: he/him

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karmawheels
A Cannondale "Beast of the East" that was saved from the bin the cleaned and polished.
I then made an unicrown fork and minibullmoose stem and buildt it with a mix of second hand and bin parts.
The custom framebage was made out of old Thomson bag by local bag maker Chloé from C.Pouki (https://c-pouki.be/) whose workshop is a few streets away from ours.

#framebuilding #4130society #handmade #restomod #framebag #upcycling #lowtech #lacyclerieliege #cannondale #rawfillets #karmawhweels
#karmawhweels
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karmawheels
The first frame I made years ago; I started building it in a basement before we opened La Cyclerie in 2016. Thomas @cyclesrougegorge helped me fixing my mistakes and finishing the frame. It is branded "Deroy" after the name of Armand Deroy, a local framebuilder who was Thomas's teacher and mentor. I later build it the way I prefer; with a mix of second hand and bin parts with a low tech approach. This bike now belongs to a friend.

#lowtech #shimagnolo #lugsnotdrugs #framebuilding #4130society #deroy #lacyclerieliege #liege #4020 #handmade
#handmade
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Kudos to this guy Brian on youtube explaining something about a camera: "If you'll forgive state of the art graphics that I use on my channel, nonetheless, this should be sufficient. I don't know why everybody spends so much money on these g-whiz graphics for their youtube videos" and proceeds to draw in his notebook.

I mean, he did try to explain an analog, film camera viewfinder, there's no easy way to record this. But his explanation with pen and paper and the camera itself worked beautifully.

#lowTech #photo #camera #analogPhotography #youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr7j8VxOeUU

A notebook with a drawing of a Ricoh KR-10 Super viewfinder markings, and a pen and fingers of the person who apparently draws it.
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JRelland :linux: :flower:

#nouveau #innovant le #sunaero

Avec SUNAERO, chauffez gratuitement votre habitat.

Basé sur le principe du chauffage solaire thermique, le #sunaero apporte, pendant les périodes d'ensoleillement, un chauffage (ou un préchauffage) gratuit (après investissement).
Idéal pour les grandes salles mal isolées (gymnases, entrepôts, grange...).
Et aussi pour l'habitat pour réduire drastiquement et facilement votre chauffage.

#SolarBrother #lowtech
#productionfrancaise

solarbrother.com/categorie-pro

Photo de face du produit SunAero. De couleur noire. Un panneau solaire thermique avec une cellule photovoltaïque dans la partie supérieure. Production française, produit de 500 W
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marie verdeil

BRUSSELS — BOOK LAUNCH — 29.4

→ How to make books more sustainable? During this evening, Low-tech Magazine will present our "Compressed Book Edition", this time in Brussels, at Architecture Curating Practice's gallery.

→ Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of their three-volume chronological book series into just one book. Compressing the content — an editorial and design choice — produces a larger reduction in resource use than printing on recycled paper could ever do.

🕰 18:30 Doors open
19:00 Book presentation and introduction of Low-tech Magazine
19:45 Q&A
20:00 Book sale / snacks & drinks / discussion

📌 Architecture curating practice,
et al. architect-run space
37 Rue des Tanneurs / Huidevettersstraat 137
1000 Brussels

(talk will be held in english)
Poster by our current intern Hugo Lopez

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#lowtechmagazine #lowtech #solarpoweredwebsite #solar #obsoletetechnology #bikegenerator #opensource #selfhosted #krisdedecker #degrowth #offgrid

a Poster features the 3 volume chronoloigcal series of low-tech magazine squeezed by wooden clamp, illustrating the principle of compression we applied with the book.
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Artanux - Simon Lefort

Découverte du jour : Rotor Déconstruction, une coopérative qui organise une fillière de récupération et de vente de matériel de construction.

Sanitaires, lampes, pierres naturelles, quincailleries, bois, panneaux, ... Plein de trésors qui attendent une deuxième vie.

Encore une fois grâce au podcast du low tech lab : lowtechlab.org/fr/actualites-b

lowtechlab.orgLow-tech Lab – [ENQUÊTE #9] À la rencontre de ROTORLe Low-tech Lab est un programme de recherche et de documentation Open-Source visant à valoriser l’innovation low-tech tout en boostant son développement.
#déconstruction#réemploi#matériel
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JP Mens

Email has become too complicated for my dement mother. Also just reading a message doesn't work.

Is there such a thing as a cigarette-sized box, maybe with ePaper and SMS reception, no buttons no nothing, onto which we could send a short text "your gym session begins in 20 minutes" or something along those lines?

(Please don't say 'smartphone', you've no idea, and don't say Arduino and do it yourself.)

#followerPower#lowTech#easyUI
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Snippety Snap (she/her)

Low-tech resourcefulness:

In high school, I had a bedside clock radio with a cassette deck. I used to tune into the college radio station and record my favorite tunes. That is how I used to hear Planet Claire by the B-52s on demand.

A friend of mine who lived in Memphis recounted how she would hold her landline phone up to the radio during certain college radio shows so her sister in Little Rock, Arkansas could listen.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

#Music#LowTech#RockAndRoll
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