Power & Heat

• Gasifier info: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Gasifier_Burner (take with grain of salt; these people think cars are necessary for civilization)
• Solar cooking
  • basket solar cooker w/ can lids
  • another basket solar cooker
• can rocket stove that looks like a better design than what I've tried in the past. Site also has a good vertical axis wind turbine design, and suggests getting discarded alu sheet from offset-printing / lithography shops

Construction

• Lamellar Roof - roof framing w/ cylindrical shape; built from short segments of (usually) dimensional lumber bolted together

Fabrication & Materials

• natural composites
• finishes you can apply while naked
• database of natural materials - mostly bioplastics, geopolymers, and stuff that can act as feedstock for 3d printing
• Speed Tape - aluminum tape for high-airspeed applications

Origami

• Origami simulator and more Computational Origami Resources
• Miura (corrugated) fold video
• Origami can be hardened with MinWax
• Tomohiro Tachi does research on tesselations, many of them collapsible and/or structural. See research & software sections, and his Flickr
  • Large rigid structures from thick panels made by sandwiching canvas between cardboard: [https://tsg.ne.jp/TT/cg/ThickRigidOrigami_tachi_5OSME.pdf]
• Stiff structures from collapsible tubes
• Biopaper - sounds like kombucha leather, but made by a papermaker (also, pretty transparent) and used in some cases for origami tessalations
• Samira Boon does collapsible origami with digitally-woven textiles, including collaborations with T. Tachi (above) and some work on designs intended for space
• An attempt at using x-form spans made out of cloth with a wooden dowel frame to create collapsible shelters for travelers on the Camino De Santiago
• options for "giant outdoor origami paper"

Tensegrity

• tensegrity wheelchair on the tensegrity wiki
• chair partial tensegrity
• adjustable grip hitch is a useful knot! If making a loop of string/rope that you want to adjust, it can be turned around so it works better - not sure how to explain!

Pedal Power

• e-waste recycling gizmo - grinds ewaste and separates components w/ magnets and eddy current induction

Transportation

• 3mules - guy travels the west coast with his three mules, living outside!
• $1300 spend on bike lanes in NYC = one quality-adjusted life year when averaged over all city residents.
• car crashes are the #1 cause of death for children in the US - where "children" are people under 19. Car crashes account for 20% of child deaths, with everything firearm-related in second place at 15%.
• "We recognize that efficiency is a function of vehicle weight as compared to its cargo weight - another form of the Golden Ratio. The principle is simple: If the cargo weighs more than the vehicle itself - as in a person riding a bicycle - then you are approaching true efficiency. The trick is to have a vehicle/cargo ratio of LESS THAN 1." - Bill Stites, designer of the Truck Trike

Bicycles

• a unique direct-drive bakfiets
• python-style recumbents, including some folding versions
• Finnish recumbent builders forum
  • discussion of FlevoBike geomentry
  • FWD trike with bottom bracket behind the front wheel
  • twist-chain cargo trike
  • simple no-weld MBB bike
• tilting vehicles south africa - focus on free-to-caster tiliting vehicles
• Bicycle Geometry, among other topics, courtesy of NightRider
• bamboo 'bent - French, there's probably a thread on velorizontal

Sail

• self-trimming wing sails

Internet

• search tips for dealing w/ seo
• virtual conferences: best practices and platforms

Water

• biosand water filter

Electronics

• simple EMG sensor

Fiber & Textiles

• Nettles for Testiles