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Kratky Hydroponics.

Kratky Hydroponic method in Mason Jars

I've wanted to try out some different hydroponic methods. One of them was the Kratky method. No pumps nor recirculation at all. Basically just some contained water and light. Awesome! Sounds simple.

So, to simplify things, I've went and painted some mason jars black …

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Spoonflow GIMP and Inkscape Palette.

Spoonflower Gimp and Inkscape Palette

I've been playing around with some of Spoonflower fabrics. One of the small challenges that I've had is matching the colors they've picked as their fabric palette. They have a palette file (a .ase, used for Adobe products), but since I try my best to …

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Cat pillows with bells.

Cat pillows and bells.

New option!

Some ideas are obvious after they've been thought, including the fact that cats love jingly things!

But their owners don't always, and that's why it's an optional add on to all cat pillows! If you're cat loves bells, but you don't, you don't have …

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All about catnip.

Catnip

About

Catnip is the most familier plant used for cat enjoyment. Also called catmint, about 70% of cats enjoy it <https://www.gwern.net/Catnip>__.

Can be dried and saved for later, as well as buds saved for maximum cat enjoyment.

Growing

Catnip enjoys well draining soil, and …

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Mushrooms and harp progress.

Mushrooms are growing! Little tiny baby ones, which is pretty neat. Hopefully, they'll be full grown, or nearly enough, by the next update.

There's been some pretty major updates to harp, with the materials having a proper webpage. Hopefully the first print will be done by the weekend.

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Filanew

One of the goals of WorldsProject is long term sustainability. Like any deep space vehicle, we need to recycle our resources so that we can use them tomorrow.

As a result, Filanew has done a soft launch. This service allows people to send in their used, potentially discarded, filament, and …

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Moving away from hydroponics, selling on Etsy, HARP.

It's been a while since there has been an update. Silent but not motionless. There's been a small pivot from hydroponics. Due to high energy costs, it's not very profitable to grow and produce just about any food crop. The only real option is something like pot. Sadly, I don't …

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New Etsy products, knitting needles from the UK.

New Products!

We have some earrings up for sale, along with some bulbasaur planter/thing holders. They're all very cute!

Bulbasaur Pencil Holder and Hlanter Green Flower Earrings Orange Flower Earrings Green and Blue Flower Earrings

Ive also added an Instagram. Because many of the items are visual in nature …

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IPFS, laser cut parts shipped.

Skipped a day, simply because not much to update.

Laser cut parts ship tomorrow! That means lots of picture taking of the circle loom, as assembly can finally start.

Lots of new Etsy stuff, from the finished Bulbasaur planter/pencil holder, earrings and 3d printed objects, starting with cookie cutters …

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Redesigning circle knit electronics case.

Worked on the electronics case for the circle knit so that it no longer requires to be laser cut, and can now be 3D printed. Since laser cutting is so much more expensive than 3D printing, this does save on some cost. Of course the original files are still there …

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