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Google Maps can now calculate the carbon footprint of an entire city

Google Maps is probably one of the best navigation apps to have installed on your smartphone and Google keeps rolling out new features meant to help …

Use Rosin to Tighten up Your Band Saw

No matter how nice your band saw is, it’s still a fussy instrument with a lot of settings that are …The post Use Rosin to Tighten up Your Band Saw …

The Best Fat-burning Boxing Workout to Get Strong and Lean

Boxers are among the most well-conditioned athletes in the world because of the rigors of the sport and training regimen. Good thing is you don’t …

Truck drawers / platform project

Riverstone tables by Andy needles. Riverstone tables, using local beach stones and local claro black walnut

Giant Wooden Lego Men

Introduction: Giant Wooden Lego Men<p>About: I am a 22 year old woodturner from Sydney. I have been wood turning for about 6.5 years and have completed …

How to Make a Ring on the Lathe | Stone Inlay

How to Build a Space-Saving Flip-Top Workbench

A space-saving workshop on wheels!<p>Of course, you could configure the workbench so one side holds bench top tools while the other serves as a …

Curious to Try the Keto Diet? Here's Everything You Can and Cannot Eat

The keto diet has been one of the most talked-about health trends in the past year. The low-carb, high-fat diet induces a state of ketosis in your body, creating ketones that burn fat instead of the glucose converted from carbohydrates. In other words, the keto (short for ketogenic) diet forces …

9 STEPS OF MAKING A TABLE SAW BOX-JOINT JIG

Making box joints — among the strongest joinery methods for square corners — is quick and accurate on the table saw with an easy-to-make jig.<p>Box …

Dams and reservoirs can’t save us. This is the new future of water infrastructure.

In the recent past, humans thought of freshwater as a constant. Sometimes there was drought, and sometimes there was flood, but water levels always returned to normal eventually. So we built dams and reservoirs, hulking infrastructure they imagined as a bulwark against the pains of any short-term …

Canoe Plans | The Ashes Solo Day - for Cedar Strip Construction

Description<p>A SOLO CANOE for INLAND LAKE SYSTEMS, QUIET RIVERS & PROTECTED BAYS<p>The Solo Day is a very personal canoe … she is designed to fit the …

34 Clever Handy Hints for Your Woodworking Projects

These incredible tips from The Family Handyman readers and editors will help you complete your woodworking projects faster and better than ever …

Why blockchain is the missing link to IoT transformations

Mention blockchain to your average Joe, and odds are that it evokes notions of cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, and covert financial transactions. But …

Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

Thanks to the modern electric grid, you have access to electricity whenever you want. But the grid only works when electricity is generated in the same amounts as it is consumed. That said, it’s impossible to get the balance right all the time. So operators make grids more flexible by adding ways …

How to Make Your Own Barn Wood

It’s easy to do, looks authentic and saves 
you a fortune!<p>There are a few essential tools for this project. The first is an angle grinder. It doesn’t …

Augmented reality software shows where pipes and other underground structures are

Geographic information systems used to be 2-D maps, but new AR technologies are letting users see where pipes and other underground infrastructure is …

Making Milk Jug Skulls

For those who really get into Halloween and DIY haunts, it’s never too early to start working on costumes, props, and decorations. In fact, for the truly hardcore, last Nov 1st was when preparations for this year’s Halloween began.<p>But for those of us who are a little more chill about our party …

UNSW taps NASA, machine learning, for new landscape tracking tool

From months to minutes.

Here's What You Should Eat Post-Workout, According To A Nutrition Coach

While most of us understand the importance of fueling our body before working up a sweat, we don’t give much thought to what we put in our body after working out. Turns out, how we decide to refuel post-workout can directly impact our body composition, recovery and performance , says Jessica …

This robot will draw and erase anything on your walls

Scribit is a drawing robot that can turn your walls into a work of art. The little bot raised over $1.6 million on Kickstarter, crushing the …

Google may bring proximity-based Nearby API to Chromebooks

Last year, Google released v2.0 of its "Nearby Connections" API, which allows for your gadgets to communicate with other devices in close proximity …

Sunflower Shield Arduino Touchscreen Display

Electronic and Arduino enthusiasts may be interested in a new creation by developer Paul Bartek, who has created an Arduino touchscreen display in …

Finally, a smarter alternative to lorem ipsum

Lorem ipsum. To most of us, it’s a passage of meaningless Latin that fills websites or brochure layouts with text while waiting on writers to fill it with real copy. And in fact, lorem ipsum was designed as nonsense from the beginning. Its use rose to prominence as early as the 1500s, when an …

How to use Machine Learning and Quilt to Identify Buildings in Satellite Images

Recently there has been interest in using satellite images as investing tools. Hedge funds are looking at construction in Beijing to bet on concrete …

Making an Incredible Sourdough Starter from Scratch in 7 Easy Steps

Flour, water, salt. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. If you had told me many years ago that I could make enticingly crunchy, tender, healthy …

TensorFlow Tutorial For Beginners

<i>Originally published at</i> <i>https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/tensorflow-tutorial</i><p>Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning that is a set …

This Crazy Fan Will Keep Your House Cool All Summer Long

It will cost you a mere fraction of what your air conditioner is costing you!<p>When the summer heat finally arrives, it seems like the only solution to …

Brace Yourself: Here's the Exact Full-Body Workout I Did With the Kettlebell King

If you know me at all, you know I'm a little obsessed with the kettlebell. I was lucky enough to learn from some of the best teachers out there, including Eric Leija, senior kettlebell coach at Onnit who's also known as primal.swoledier on Instagram. He's affectionately called the Kettlebell King. …