#lo-tech — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lo-tech, aggregated by home.social.
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@ruemaleficent These are my personal favorites...
https://decomposition.com/collections/pocket-sized-notebooks?page=1
#Handwriting #HandwrittenNotes #Notebooks #SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech
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@ruemaleficent These are my personal favorites...
https://decomposition.com/collections/pocket-sized-notebooks?page=1
#Handwriting #HandwrittenNotes #Notebooks #SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech
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@ruemaleficent These are my personal favorites...
https://decomposition.com/collections/pocket-sized-notebooks?page=1
#Handwriting #HandwrittenNotes #Notebooks #SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech
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@ruemaleficent These are my personal favorites...
https://decomposition.com/collections/pocket-sized-notebooks?page=1
#Handwriting #HandwrittenNotes #Notebooks #SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech
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@ruemaleficent These are my personal favorites...
https://decomposition.com/collections/pocket-sized-notebooks?page=1
#Handwriting #HandwrittenNotes #Notebooks #SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech
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I'm thinking as an alternative to social media, I'll send hand-written notes along with a couple of printed photos to certain friends and family members. It might be only a few times a year, but still. I also have sent stickers to my anarchist / activist friends via snail mail in the past, which was greatly appreciated! (And I gave human artists some income in the process). Yeah, stickers and photographs. That's the way to go...!
#SolarPunkSunday #Handwriting #DigitalMinimalism #LowTech #LoTech #HandwrittenLetters #PostSocialMedia #Correspondence #HumanCreativity #SupportArtists #CreateArt #SolarPunkSundayMusings
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I'm thinking as an alternative to social media, I'll send hand-written notes along with a couple of printed photos to certain friends and family members. It might be only a few times a year, but still. I also have sent stickers to my anarchist / activist friends via snail mail in the past, which was greatly appreciated! (And I gave human artists some income in the process). Yeah, stickers and photographs. That's the way to go...!
#SolarPunkSunday #Handwriting #DigitalMinimalism #LowTech #LoTech #HandwrittenLetters #PostSocialMedia #Correspondence #HumanCreativity #SupportArtists #CreateArt #SolarPunkSundayMusings
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I'm thinking as an alternative to social media, I'll send hand-written notes along with a couple of printed photos to certain friends and family members. It might be only a few times a year, but still. I also have sent stickers to my anarchist / activist friends via snail mail in the past, which was greatly appreciated! (And I gave human artists some income in the process). Yeah, stickers and photographs. That's the way to go...!
#SolarPunkSunday #Handwriting #DigitalMinimalism #LowTech #LoTech #HandwrittenLetters #PostSocialMedia #Correspondence #HumanCreativity #SupportArtists #CreateArt #SolarPunkSundayMusings
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I'm thinking as an alternative to social media, I'll send hand-written notes along with a couple of printed photos to certain friends and family members. It might be only a few times a year, but still. I also have sent stickers to my anarchist / activist friends via snail mail in the past, which was greatly appreciated! (And I gave human artists some income in the process). Yeah, stickers and photographs. That's the way to go...!
#SolarPunkSunday #Handwriting #DigitalMinimalism #LowTech #LoTech #HandwrittenLetters #PostSocialMedia #Correspondence #HumanCreativity #SupportArtists #CreateArt #SolarPunkSundayMusings
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I'm thinking as an alternative to social media, I'll send hand-written notes along with a couple of printed photos to certain friends and family members. It might be only a few times a year, but still. I also have sent stickers to my anarchist / activist friends via snail mail in the past, which was greatly appreciated! (And I gave human artists some income in the process). Yeah, stickers and photographs. That's the way to go...!
#SolarPunkSunday #Handwriting #DigitalMinimalism #LowTech #LoTech #HandwrittenLetters #PostSocialMedia #Correspondence #HumanCreativity #SupportArtists #CreateArt #SolarPunkSundayMusings
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Gen Z adults are ditching #smartphones for #FlipPhones; research backs the benefits
"A growing number of young people are swapping smartphones for basic flip phones to break free from social media, and researchers say reduced screen time can improve sleep, focus, and stress levels."
#SolarPunkSunday #SmartphoneAddiction #LoTech #OldSchoolTechnology #LessScreenTime
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Gen Z adults are ditching #smartphones for #FlipPhones; research backs the benefits
"A growing number of young people are swapping smartphones for basic flip phones to break free from social media, and researchers say reduced screen time can improve sleep, focus, and stress levels."
#SolarPunkSunday #SmartphoneAddiction #LoTech #OldSchoolTechnology #LessScreenTime
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Gen Z adults are ditching #smartphones for #FlipPhones; research backs the benefits
"A growing number of young people are swapping smartphones for basic flip phones to break free from social media, and researchers say reduced screen time can improve sleep, focus, and stress levels."
#SolarPunkSunday #SmartphoneAddiction #LoTech #OldSchoolTechnology #LessScreenTime
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Gen Z adults are ditching #smartphones for #FlipPhones; research backs the benefits
"A growing number of young people are swapping smartphones for basic flip phones to break free from social media, and researchers say reduced screen time can improve sleep, focus, and stress levels."
#SolarPunkSunday #SmartphoneAddiction #LoTech #OldSchoolTechnology #LessScreenTime
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Gen Z adults are ditching #smartphones for #FlipPhones; research backs the benefits
"A growing number of young people are swapping smartphones for basic flip phones to break free from social media, and researchers say reduced screen time can improve sleep, focus, and stress levels."
#SolarPunkSunday #SmartphoneAddiction #LoTech #OldSchoolTechnology #LessScreenTime
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Podcast: Would You Go Back to a Time Before #Smartphones If You Could?
Turns out, looking back is also about looking forward.
By Julie Beck and Natalie Brennan, July 27, 2026
"Back in the ’90s, before everyone had a #smartphone, were things just … better? Tech-focused #nostalgia has become a potent cultural force in recent years, driving sales of '#dumbphones,' #iPods, #CDs, and other #RetroTechnology. According to a 2023 survey, 67 percent of Americans wish they could go back to a time 'before everyone was ‘plugged in.’ '
"The psychologist behind that survey, Clay Routledge, has found that this sort of nostalgia is more than just a yearning to go backwards. 'We can often feel overwhelmed in the moment and in the challenges we face today. It's hard to see past them. #Nostalgia can help us step outside of that moment,' Routledge explains. Nostalgia can actually teach us how we want to live now, and in the future."
#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #PhysicalMedia #RetroComputing #RetroTech #SmartphoneAddiction
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Podcast: Would You Go Back to a Time Before #Smartphones If You Could?
Turns out, looking back is also about looking forward.
By Julie Beck and Natalie Brennan, July 27, 2026
"Back in the ’90s, before everyone had a #smartphone, were things just … better? Tech-focused #nostalgia has become a potent cultural force in recent years, driving sales of '#dumbphones,' #iPods, #CDs, and other #RetroTechnology. According to a 2023 survey, 67 percent of Americans wish they could go back to a time 'before everyone was ‘plugged in.’ '
"The psychologist behind that survey, Clay Routledge, has found that this sort of nostalgia is more than just a yearning to go backwards. 'We can often feel overwhelmed in the moment and in the challenges we face today. It's hard to see past them. #Nostalgia can help us step outside of that moment,' Routledge explains. Nostalgia can actually teach us how we want to live now, and in the future."
#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #PhysicalMedia #RetroComputing #RetroTech #SmartphoneAddiction
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Podcast: Would You Go Back to a Time Before #Smartphones If You Could?
Turns out, looking back is also about looking forward.
By Julie Beck and Natalie Brennan, July 27, 2026
"Back in the ’90s, before everyone had a #smartphone, were things just … better? Tech-focused #nostalgia has become a potent cultural force in recent years, driving sales of '#dumbphones,' #iPods, #CDs, and other #RetroTechnology. According to a 2023 survey, 67 percent of Americans wish they could go back to a time 'before everyone was ‘plugged in.’ '
"The psychologist behind that survey, Clay Routledge, has found that this sort of nostalgia is more than just a yearning to go backwards. 'We can often feel overwhelmed in the moment and in the challenges we face today. It's hard to see past them. #Nostalgia can help us step outside of that moment,' Routledge explains. Nostalgia can actually teach us how we want to live now, and in the future."
#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #PhysicalMedia #RetroComputing #RetroTech #SmartphoneAddiction
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Podcast: Would You Go Back to a Time Before #Smartphones If You Could?
Turns out, looking back is also about looking forward.
By Julie Beck and Natalie Brennan, July 27, 2026
"Back in the ’90s, before everyone had a #smartphone, were things just … better? Tech-focused #nostalgia has become a potent cultural force in recent years, driving sales of '#dumbphones,' #iPods, #CDs, and other #RetroTechnology. According to a 2023 survey, 67 percent of Americans wish they could go back to a time 'before everyone was ‘plugged in.’ '
"The psychologist behind that survey, Clay Routledge, has found that this sort of nostalgia is more than just a yearning to go backwards. 'We can often feel overwhelmed in the moment and in the challenges we face today. It's hard to see past them. #Nostalgia can help us step outside of that moment,' Routledge explains. Nostalgia can actually teach us how we want to live now, and in the future."
#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #PhysicalMedia #RetroComputing #RetroTech #SmartphoneAddiction
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Podcast: Would You Go Back to a Time Before #Smartphones If You Could?
Turns out, looking back is also about looking forward.
By Julie Beck and Natalie Brennan, July 27, 2026
"Back in the ’90s, before everyone had a #smartphone, were things just … better? Tech-focused #nostalgia has become a potent cultural force in recent years, driving sales of '#dumbphones,' #iPods, #CDs, and other #RetroTechnology. According to a 2023 survey, 67 percent of Americans wish they could go back to a time 'before everyone was ‘plugged in.’ '
"The psychologist behind that survey, Clay Routledge, has found that this sort of nostalgia is more than just a yearning to go backwards. 'We can often feel overwhelmed in the moment and in the challenges we face today. It's hard to see past them. #Nostalgia can help us step outside of that moment,' Routledge explains. Nostalgia can actually teach us how we want to live now, and in the future."
#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #PhysicalMedia #RetroComputing #RetroTech #SmartphoneAddiction
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How the #Amish Let #Technology in Without Letting It Take Over
After three years studying the community, I came to see that the real question isn't what technology can do, but what it asks us to give up.
By: Lindsay Ems, July 27, 2026
Excerpt: "I first began studying the Amish in 2012 as a doctoral researcher of media studies at Indiana University, located within a few hours of settlements in Elkhart, LaGrange, and Daviess counties. Going into the project, I knew what most everyone else did: that the Amish prized simple living, communal values, and religious discipline, while resisting certain technologies such as cars, TV, and electricity. In my initial conversations with Amish leaders, they told me that they were worried that new technology might diminish the sense of purpose people in their communities feel. They worried that new communication tools, such as smartphones and social media, would disrupt rituals, traditions, and their established communication patterns. Above all, they wanted to preserve their shared culture in which each person felt spiritually connected to their neighbors and the #NaturalWorld."
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"In Joe’s settlement, the #BlackBoxPhone was developed in response to a very specific social problem: Roughly 100 crews left the settlement daily for their construction jobs and needed a way to communicate while away from home. At the same time, several ministers believed that the cell phones already adopted by many community members should be abandoned. They worried that private text messages could facilitate extramarital relationships. And #smartphones, they feared, tempted users to access unfiltered, immoral content such as pornography, which could undermine human intimacy.
"The black-box phone, by contrast, was a happy medium that posed threats to community members’ social and spiritual health. Its design reflects that: The phone is an intentionally bulked-up contraption that enables mobile communications from a vehicle but is highly inconvenient to carry. It only allows public, audible conversations — no texting or internet access. It is also shared among the crew members. Ministers in the settlement hoped that adopting these devices would make individual cell phone ownership among their constituents unnecessary.
"As a substitute for cell phones, the black-box phone is a distinctively Amish modification of an existing technology that better aligns with their values. It forces public communicative arrangements, allowing peers to hold each other accountable for their actions. Additionally, this device enables the Amish to achieve their goals and adhere to their social norms without submitting to the individualizing, privatizing, and attention-fragmenting logic of #BigTech."
Read more:
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-the-amish-let-technology-in-without-letting-it-take-over/#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #SmartPhoneAddiction #TechAddiction #Communication #Luddite #Connections #ConnectingWithCommunity #ConnectingWithNature
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How the #Amish Let #Technology in Without Letting It Take Over
After three years studying the community, I came to see that the real question isn't what technology can do, but what it asks us to give up.
By: Lindsay Ems, July 27, 2026
Excerpt: "I first began studying the Amish in 2012 as a doctoral researcher of media studies at Indiana University, located within a few hours of settlements in Elkhart, LaGrange, and Daviess counties. Going into the project, I knew what most everyone else did: that the Amish prized simple living, communal values, and religious discipline, while resisting certain technologies such as cars, TV, and electricity. In my initial conversations with Amish leaders, they told me that they were worried that new technology might diminish the sense of purpose people in their communities feel. They worried that new communication tools, such as smartphones and social media, would disrupt rituals, traditions, and their established communication patterns. Above all, they wanted to preserve their shared culture in which each person felt spiritually connected to their neighbors and the #NaturalWorld."
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"In Joe’s settlement, the #BlackBoxPhone was developed in response to a very specific social problem: Roughly 100 crews left the settlement daily for their construction jobs and needed a way to communicate while away from home. At the same time, several ministers believed that the cell phones already adopted by many community members should be abandoned. They worried that private text messages could facilitate extramarital relationships. And #smartphones, they feared, tempted users to access unfiltered, immoral content such as pornography, which could undermine human intimacy.
"The black-box phone, by contrast, was a happy medium that posed threats to community members’ social and spiritual health. Its design reflects that: The phone is an intentionally bulked-up contraption that enables mobile communications from a vehicle but is highly inconvenient to carry. It only allows public, audible conversations — no texting or internet access. It is also shared among the crew members. Ministers in the settlement hoped that adopting these devices would make individual cell phone ownership among their constituents unnecessary.
"As a substitute for cell phones, the black-box phone is a distinctively Amish modification of an existing technology that better aligns with their values. It forces public communicative arrangements, allowing peers to hold each other accountable for their actions. Additionally, this device enables the Amish to achieve their goals and adhere to their social norms without submitting to the individualizing, privatizing, and attention-fragmenting logic of #BigTech."
Read more:
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-the-amish-let-technology-in-without-letting-it-take-over/#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #SmartPhoneAddiction #TechAddiction #Communication #Luddite #Connections #ConnectingWithCommunity #ConnectingWithNature
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How the #Amish Let #Technology in Without Letting It Take Over
After three years studying the community, I came to see that the real question isn't what technology can do, but what it asks us to give up.
By: Lindsay Ems, July 27, 2026
Excerpt: "I first began studying the Amish in 2012 as a doctoral researcher of media studies at Indiana University, located within a few hours of settlements in Elkhart, LaGrange, and Daviess counties. Going into the project, I knew what most everyone else did: that the Amish prized simple living, communal values, and religious discipline, while resisting certain technologies such as cars, TV, and electricity. In my initial conversations with Amish leaders, they told me that they were worried that new technology might diminish the sense of purpose people in their communities feel. They worried that new communication tools, such as smartphones and social media, would disrupt rituals, traditions, and their established communication patterns. Above all, they wanted to preserve their shared culture in which each person felt spiritually connected to their neighbors and the #NaturalWorld."
[...]
"In Joe’s settlement, the #BlackBoxPhone was developed in response to a very specific social problem: Roughly 100 crews left the settlement daily for their construction jobs and needed a way to communicate while away from home. At the same time, several ministers believed that the cell phones already adopted by many community members should be abandoned. They worried that private text messages could facilitate extramarital relationships. And #smartphones, they feared, tempted users to access unfiltered, immoral content such as pornography, which could undermine human intimacy.
"The black-box phone, by contrast, was a happy medium that posed threats to community members’ social and spiritual health. Its design reflects that: The phone is an intentionally bulked-up contraption that enables mobile communications from a vehicle but is highly inconvenient to carry. It only allows public, audible conversations — no texting or internet access. It is also shared among the crew members. Ministers in the settlement hoped that adopting these devices would make individual cell phone ownership among their constituents unnecessary.
"As a substitute for cell phones, the black-box phone is a distinctively Amish modification of an existing technology that better aligns with their values. It forces public communicative arrangements, allowing peers to hold each other accountable for their actions. Additionally, this device enables the Amish to achieve their goals and adhere to their social norms without submitting to the individualizing, privatizing, and attention-fragmenting logic of #BigTech."
Read more:
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-the-amish-let-technology-in-without-letting-it-take-over/#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #SmartPhoneAddiction #TechAddiction #Communication #Luddite #Connections #ConnectingWithCommunity #ConnectingWithNature
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How the #Amish Let #Technology in Without Letting It Take Over
After three years studying the community, I came to see that the real question isn't what technology can do, but what it asks us to give up.
By: Lindsay Ems, July 27, 2026
Excerpt: "I first began studying the Amish in 2012 as a doctoral researcher of media studies at Indiana University, located within a few hours of settlements in Elkhart, LaGrange, and Daviess counties. Going into the project, I knew what most everyone else did: that the Amish prized simple living, communal values, and religious discipline, while resisting certain technologies such as cars, TV, and electricity. In my initial conversations with Amish leaders, they told me that they were worried that new technology might diminish the sense of purpose people in their communities feel. They worried that new communication tools, such as smartphones and social media, would disrupt rituals, traditions, and their established communication patterns. Above all, they wanted to preserve their shared culture in which each person felt spiritually connected to their neighbors and the #NaturalWorld."
[...]
"In Joe’s settlement, the #BlackBoxPhone was developed in response to a very specific social problem: Roughly 100 crews left the settlement daily for their construction jobs and needed a way to communicate while away from home. At the same time, several ministers believed that the cell phones already adopted by many community members should be abandoned. They worried that private text messages could facilitate extramarital relationships. And #smartphones, they feared, tempted users to access unfiltered, immoral content such as pornography, which could undermine human intimacy.
"The black-box phone, by contrast, was a happy medium that posed threats to community members’ social and spiritual health. Its design reflects that: The phone is an intentionally bulked-up contraption that enables mobile communications from a vehicle but is highly inconvenient to carry. It only allows public, audible conversations — no texting or internet access. It is also shared among the crew members. Ministers in the settlement hoped that adopting these devices would make individual cell phone ownership among their constituents unnecessary.
"As a substitute for cell phones, the black-box phone is a distinctively Amish modification of an existing technology that better aligns with their values. It forces public communicative arrangements, allowing peers to hold each other accountable for their actions. Additionally, this device enables the Amish to achieve their goals and adhere to their social norms without submitting to the individualizing, privatizing, and attention-fragmenting logic of #BigTech."
Read more:
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-the-amish-let-technology-in-without-letting-it-take-over/#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #SmartPhoneAddiction #TechAddiction #Communication #Luddite #Connections #ConnectingWithCommunity #ConnectingWithNature
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How the #Amish Let #Technology in Without Letting It Take Over
After three years studying the community, I came to see that the real question isn't what technology can do, but what it asks us to give up.
By: Lindsay Ems, July 27, 2026
Excerpt: "I first began studying the Amish in 2012 as a doctoral researcher of media studies at Indiana University, located within a few hours of settlements in Elkhart, LaGrange, and Daviess counties. Going into the project, I knew what most everyone else did: that the Amish prized simple living, communal values, and religious discipline, while resisting certain technologies such as cars, TV, and electricity. In my initial conversations with Amish leaders, they told me that they were worried that new technology might diminish the sense of purpose people in their communities feel. They worried that new communication tools, such as smartphones and social media, would disrupt rituals, traditions, and their established communication patterns. Above all, they wanted to preserve their shared culture in which each person felt spiritually connected to their neighbors and the #NaturalWorld."
[...]
"In Joe’s settlement, the #BlackBoxPhone was developed in response to a very specific social problem: Roughly 100 crews left the settlement daily for their construction jobs and needed a way to communicate while away from home. At the same time, several ministers believed that the cell phones already adopted by many community members should be abandoned. They worried that private text messages could facilitate extramarital relationships. And #smartphones, they feared, tempted users to access unfiltered, immoral content such as pornography, which could undermine human intimacy.
"The black-box phone, by contrast, was a happy medium that posed threats to community members’ social and spiritual health. Its design reflects that: The phone is an intentionally bulked-up contraption that enables mobile communications from a vehicle but is highly inconvenient to carry. It only allows public, audible conversations — no texting or internet access. It is also shared among the crew members. Ministers in the settlement hoped that adopting these devices would make individual cell phone ownership among their constituents unnecessary.
"As a substitute for cell phones, the black-box phone is a distinctively Amish modification of an existing technology that better aligns with their values. It forces public communicative arrangements, allowing peers to hold each other accountable for their actions. Additionally, this device enables the Amish to achieve their goals and adhere to their social norms without submitting to the individualizing, privatizing, and attention-fragmenting logic of #BigTech."
Read more:
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-the-amish-let-technology-in-without-letting-it-take-over/#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #SmartPhoneAddiction #TechAddiction #Communication #Luddite #Connections #ConnectingWithCommunity #ConnectingWithNature
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17th Century Days at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site
Date: July 25, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: 13 miles south of Damariscotta, off Route 130. 28 Colonial Pemaquid Drive New Harbor, ME 04554
State Park: Colonial Pemaquid
Event Type: History/Historical, Special Event"Visit the rough-and-tumble world of 17th century Maine. Historic interpreters attired in period dress will introduce visitors to the English cod fishery trade with the #Wabanaki and French, and small watercraft construction, coopering, and #blacksmithing, as practiced in early Maine. #TobiasFrancis of the #Passamaquoddy tribe will demonstrate the construction, use, and repair of a Wabanaki birchbark canoe. Castlebay members Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee will play a selection of popular 17th C ballads."
Contact Phone: (207) 677-2423
Cost: Park entry fee: $3 for adult Maine Residents; $4 for non-residents; $1 for Children 5-11 years old; $2 for Senior non-residents. Free for Maine Seniors and children under 5.#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #NativeAmericans #TraditionalTechnology #TEK #Maine #MaineEvents #History #LivingHistory
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17th Century Days at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site
Date: July 25, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: 13 miles south of Damariscotta, off Route 130. 28 Colonial Pemaquid Drive New Harbor, ME 04554
State Park: Colonial Pemaquid
Event Type: History/Historical, Special Event"Visit the rough-and-tumble world of 17th century Maine. Historic interpreters attired in period dress will introduce visitors to the English cod fishery trade with the #Wabanaki and French, and small watercraft construction, coopering, and #blacksmithing, as practiced in early Maine. #TobiasFrancis of the #Passamaquoddy tribe will demonstrate the construction, use, and repair of a Wabanaki birchbark canoe. Castlebay members Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee will play a selection of popular 17th C ballads."
Contact Phone: (207) 677-2423
Cost: Park entry fee: $3 for adult Maine Residents; $4 for non-residents; $1 for Children 5-11 years old; $2 for Senior non-residents. Free for Maine Seniors and children under 5.#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #NativeAmericans #TraditionalTechnology #TEK #Maine #MaineEvents #History #LivingHistory
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17th Century Days at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site
Date: July 25, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: 13 miles south of Damariscotta, off Route 130. 28 Colonial Pemaquid Drive New Harbor, ME 04554
State Park: Colonial Pemaquid
Event Type: History/Historical, Special Event"Visit the rough-and-tumble world of 17th century Maine. Historic interpreters attired in period dress will introduce visitors to the English cod fishery trade with the #Wabanaki and French, and small watercraft construction, coopering, and #blacksmithing, as practiced in early Maine. #TobiasFrancis of the #Passamaquoddy tribe will demonstrate the construction, use, and repair of a Wabanaki birchbark canoe. Castlebay members Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee will play a selection of popular 17th C ballads."
Contact Phone: (207) 677-2423
Cost: Park entry fee: $3 for adult Maine Residents; $4 for non-residents; $1 for Children 5-11 years old; $2 for Senior non-residents. Free for Maine Seniors and children under 5.#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #NativeAmericans #TraditionalTechnology #TEK #Maine #MaineEvents #History #LivingHistory
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17th Century Days at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site
Date: July 25, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: 13 miles south of Damariscotta, off Route 130. 28 Colonial Pemaquid Drive New Harbor, ME 04554
State Park: Colonial Pemaquid
Event Type: History/Historical, Special Event"Visit the rough-and-tumble world of 17th century Maine. Historic interpreters attired in period dress will introduce visitors to the English cod fishery trade with the #Wabanaki and French, and small watercraft construction, coopering, and #blacksmithing, as practiced in early Maine. #TobiasFrancis of the #Passamaquoddy tribe will demonstrate the construction, use, and repair of a Wabanaki birchbark canoe. Castlebay members Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee will play a selection of popular 17th C ballads."
Contact Phone: (207) 677-2423
Cost: Park entry fee: $3 for adult Maine Residents; $4 for non-residents; $1 for Children 5-11 years old; $2 for Senior non-residents. Free for Maine Seniors and children under 5.#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #NativeAmericans #TraditionalTechnology #TEK #Maine #MaineEvents #History #LivingHistory
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17th Century Days at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site
Date: July 25, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: 13 miles south of Damariscotta, off Route 130. 28 Colonial Pemaquid Drive New Harbor, ME 04554
State Park: Colonial Pemaquid
Event Type: History/Historical, Special Event"Visit the rough-and-tumble world of 17th century Maine. Historic interpreters attired in period dress will introduce visitors to the English cod fishery trade with the #Wabanaki and French, and small watercraft construction, coopering, and #blacksmithing, as practiced in early Maine. #TobiasFrancis of the #Passamaquoddy tribe will demonstrate the construction, use, and repair of a Wabanaki birchbark canoe. Castlebay members Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee will play a selection of popular 17th C ballads."
Contact Phone: (207) 677-2423
Cost: Park entry fee: $3 for adult Maine Residents; $4 for non-residents; $1 for Children 5-11 years old; $2 for Senior non-residents. Free for Maine Seniors and children under 5.#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #NativeAmericans #TraditionalTechnology #TEK #Maine #MaineEvents #History #LivingHistory
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My little Thinkpad runs Linux Mint + Emulated MacOS 7.5.3 so that I can sit and draw in Photoshop 3.0.5, like I used to do :) Lo-tech is resistance :) #linux #adobe #photoshop #lotech
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My little Thinkpad runs Linux Mint + Emulated MacOS 7.5.3 so that I can sit and draw in Photoshop 3.0.5, like I used to do :) Lo-tech is resistance :) #linux #adobe #photoshop #lotech
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My little Thinkpad runs Linux Mint + Emulated MacOS 7.5.3 so that I can sit and draw in Photoshop 3.0.5, like I used to do :) Lo-tech is resistance :) #linux #adobe #photoshop #lotech
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My little Thinkpad runs Linux Mint + Emulated MacOS 7.5.3 so that I can sit and draw in Photoshop 3.0.5, like I used to do :) Lo-tech is resistance :) #linux #adobe #photoshop #lotech
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So how to survive a #heatwave?
Chinese are already doing it...
https://youtu.be/1GaTRB9AoJYI am just drying my washed clothes by wearing them...
Ah well #LoTech works too... -
Make This #DIY #SwampCooler
Make summer heat a little more bearable with a do-it-yourself evaporative cooler.
"Swamp coolers will not provide relief in areas with high humidity, since they add humidity to the room."
Becca Lewis, August 17, 2023
"A swamp cooler, also known as an evaporative cooler, pulls air into a container and over water or ice, causing an energy exchange in which the heat in the air is absorbed by the surface of the ice or water, cooling the surrounding air. This process is known as 'evaporative cooling,' and works a lot like sweating does on your body. You can purchase a swamp cooler, or make one yourself relatively inexpensively. The DIY set-up uses a cheap commercial fan to pull air across ice or water to accomplish the evaporative cooling result."
https://lifehacker.com/make-this-diy-swamp-cooler-1850747672
#SolarPunkSunday #KeepCool #Heatwave #Heatwaves #ClimateChange #LoTech
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Make This #DIY #SwampCooler
Make summer heat a little more bearable with a do-it-yourself evaporative cooler.
"Swamp coolers will not provide relief in areas with high humidity, since they add humidity to the room."
Becca Lewis, August 17, 2023
"A swamp cooler, also known as an evaporative cooler, pulls air into a container and over water or ice, causing an energy exchange in which the heat in the air is absorbed by the surface of the ice or water, cooling the surrounding air. This process is known as 'evaporative cooling,' and works a lot like sweating does on your body. You can purchase a swamp cooler, or make one yourself relatively inexpensively. The DIY set-up uses a cheap commercial fan to pull air across ice or water to accomplish the evaporative cooling result."
https://lifehacker.com/make-this-diy-swamp-cooler-1850747672
#SolarPunkSunday #KeepCool #Heatwave #Heatwaves #ClimateChange #LoTech
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Make This #DIY #SwampCooler
Make summer heat a little more bearable with a do-it-yourself evaporative cooler.
"Swamp coolers will not provide relief in areas with high humidity, since they add humidity to the room."
Becca Lewis, August 17, 2023
"A swamp cooler, also known as an evaporative cooler, pulls air into a container and over water or ice, causing an energy exchange in which the heat in the air is absorbed by the surface of the ice or water, cooling the surrounding air. This process is known as 'evaporative cooling,' and works a lot like sweating does on your body. You can purchase a swamp cooler, or make one yourself relatively inexpensively. The DIY set-up uses a cheap commercial fan to pull air across ice or water to accomplish the evaporative cooling result."
https://lifehacker.com/make-this-diy-swamp-cooler-1850747672
#SolarPunkSunday #KeepCool #Heatwave #Heatwaves #ClimateChange #LoTech
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Make This #DIY #SwampCooler
Make summer heat a little more bearable with a do-it-yourself evaporative cooler.
"Swamp coolers will not provide relief in areas with high humidity, since they add humidity to the room."
Becca Lewis, August 17, 2023
"A swamp cooler, also known as an evaporative cooler, pulls air into a container and over water or ice, causing an energy exchange in which the heat in the air is absorbed by the surface of the ice or water, cooling the surrounding air. This process is known as 'evaporative cooling,' and works a lot like sweating does on your body. You can purchase a swamp cooler, or make one yourself relatively inexpensively. The DIY set-up uses a cheap commercial fan to pull air across ice or water to accomplish the evaporative cooling result."
https://lifehacker.com/make-this-diy-swamp-cooler-1850747672
#SolarPunkSunday #KeepCool #Heatwave #Heatwaves #ClimateChange #LoTech
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Make This #DIY #SwampCooler
Make summer heat a little more bearable with a do-it-yourself evaporative cooler.
"Swamp coolers will not provide relief in areas with high humidity, since they add humidity to the room."
Becca Lewis, August 17, 2023
"A swamp cooler, also known as an evaporative cooler, pulls air into a container and over water or ice, causing an energy exchange in which the heat in the air is absorbed by the surface of the ice or water, cooling the surrounding air. This process is known as 'evaporative cooling,' and works a lot like sweating does on your body. You can purchase a swamp cooler, or make one yourself relatively inexpensively. The DIY set-up uses a cheap commercial fan to pull air across ice or water to accomplish the evaporative cooling result."
https://lifehacker.com/make-this-diy-swamp-cooler-1850747672
#SolarPunkSunday #KeepCool #Heatwave #Heatwaves #ClimateChange #LoTech
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How 100 #Romanian hospitals switched to #PenAndPaper to defeat a national #CyberAttack
Joe Tidy, June 23, 2026
"One after another the calls came in from hospitals; criminals were infecting computer networks in a mass hack that was putting countless lives at risk.
"At Bucharest's national cyber-security centre (#DNSC) they watched helplessly as the hackers spread across #Romania through a popular piece of medical software.
"Cyber-chief Dan Cimpean had a tough decision to make, but it was the only option they had.
"The order went out to more than 100 hospitals. Disconnect from the internet, now.
"The cyber-attack on Romania's hospitals in February 2024 is one of the worst to target healthcare systems around the world, but these incidents are becoming increasingly common.
"Healthcare is now the most targeted area of critical national infrastructure, the FBI has said recently.
"Cutting off 100 hospitals in Romania from the internet stopped the hackers in their tracks, buying time to work out how bad the attack was.
"But it meant no connected devices, emails or web browsers.
"Medical staff had to switch to pen and paper, improvising workarounds to protect patients while IT teams scrambled and the national cyber response centre tried to find out how the hackers had got in - and how they could stop them.
"Their actions over four days from 10 February 2024, and those of the doctors and nurses, have been widely praised.
How they reacted and how they coped has become a test case for disaster planners internationally, as officials look for advice on responding to a mass hospital hack."https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyk756mzlo
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/4ZOHC#ThePitt #NoTech #LoTech #Offline #Ransomware #PaperRecords #Hacking
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How 100 #Romanian hospitals switched to #PenAndPaper to defeat a national #CyberAttack
Joe Tidy, June 23, 2026
"One after another the calls came in from hospitals; criminals were infecting computer networks in a mass hack that was putting countless lives at risk.
"At Bucharest's national cyber-security centre (#DNSC) they watched helplessly as the hackers spread across #Romania through a popular piece of medical software.
"Cyber-chief Dan Cimpean had a tough decision to make, but it was the only option they had.
"The order went out to more than 100 hospitals. Disconnect from the internet, now.
"The cyber-attack on Romania's hospitals in February 2024 is one of the worst to target healthcare systems around the world, but these incidents are becoming increasingly common.
"Healthcare is now the most targeted area of critical national infrastructure, the FBI has said recently.
"Cutting off 100 hospitals in Romania from the internet stopped the hackers in their tracks, buying time to work out how bad the attack was.
"But it meant no connected devices, emails or web browsers.
"Medical staff had to switch to pen and paper, improvising workarounds to protect patients while IT teams scrambled and the national cyber response centre tried to find out how the hackers had got in - and how they could stop them.
"Their actions over four days from 10 February 2024, and those of the doctors and nurses, have been widely praised.
How they reacted and how they coped has become a test case for disaster planners internationally, as officials look for advice on responding to a mass hospital hack."https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyk756mzlo
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/4ZOHC#ThePitt #NoTech #LoTech #Offline #Ransomware #PaperRecords #Hacking
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How 100 #Romanian hospitals switched to #PenAndPaper to defeat a national #CyberAttack
Joe Tidy, June 23, 2026
"One after another the calls came in from hospitals; criminals were infecting computer networks in a mass hack that was putting countless lives at risk.
"At Bucharest's national cyber-security centre (#DNSC) they watched helplessly as the hackers spread across #Romania through a popular piece of medical software.
"Cyber-chief Dan Cimpean had a tough decision to make, but it was the only option they had.
"The order went out to more than 100 hospitals. Disconnect from the internet, now.
"The cyber-attack on Romania's hospitals in February 2024 is one of the worst to target healthcare systems around the world, but these incidents are becoming increasingly common.
"Healthcare is now the most targeted area of critical national infrastructure, the FBI has said recently.
"Cutting off 100 hospitals in Romania from the internet stopped the hackers in their tracks, buying time to work out how bad the attack was.
"But it meant no connected devices, emails or web browsers.
"Medical staff had to switch to pen and paper, improvising workarounds to protect patients while IT teams scrambled and the national cyber response centre tried to find out how the hackers had got in - and how they could stop them.
"Their actions over four days from 10 February 2024, and those of the doctors and nurses, have been widely praised.
How they reacted and how they coped has become a test case for disaster planners internationally, as officials look for advice on responding to a mass hospital hack."https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyk756mzlo
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/4ZOHC#ThePitt #NoTech #LoTech #Offline #Ransomware #PaperRecords #Hacking
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How 100 #Romanian hospitals switched to #PenAndPaper to defeat a national #CyberAttack
Joe Tidy, June 23, 2026
"One after another the calls came in from hospitals; criminals were infecting computer networks in a mass hack that was putting countless lives at risk.
"At Bucharest's national cyber-security centre (#DNSC) they watched helplessly as the hackers spread across #Romania through a popular piece of medical software.
"Cyber-chief Dan Cimpean had a tough decision to make, but it was the only option they had.
"The order went out to more than 100 hospitals. Disconnect from the internet, now.
"The cyber-attack on Romania's hospitals in February 2024 is one of the worst to target healthcare systems around the world, but these incidents are becoming increasingly common.
"Healthcare is now the most targeted area of critical national infrastructure, the FBI has said recently.
"Cutting off 100 hospitals in Romania from the internet stopped the hackers in their tracks, buying time to work out how bad the attack was.
"But it meant no connected devices, emails or web browsers.
"Medical staff had to switch to pen and paper, improvising workarounds to protect patients while IT teams scrambled and the national cyber response centre tried to find out how the hackers had got in - and how they could stop them.
"Their actions over four days from 10 February 2024, and those of the doctors and nurses, have been widely praised.
How they reacted and how they coped has become a test case for disaster planners internationally, as officials look for advice on responding to a mass hospital hack."https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyk756mzlo
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/4ZOHC#ThePitt #NoTech #LoTech #Offline #Ransomware #PaperRecords #Hacking
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How 100 #Romanian hospitals switched to #PenAndPaper to defeat a national #CyberAttack
Joe Tidy, June 23, 2026
"One after another the calls came in from hospitals; criminals were infecting computer networks in a mass hack that was putting countless lives at risk.
"At Bucharest's national cyber-security centre (#DNSC) they watched helplessly as the hackers spread across #Romania through a popular piece of medical software.
"Cyber-chief Dan Cimpean had a tough decision to make, but it was the only option they had.
"The order went out to more than 100 hospitals. Disconnect from the internet, now.
"The cyber-attack on Romania's hospitals in February 2024 is one of the worst to target healthcare systems around the world, but these incidents are becoming increasingly common.
"Healthcare is now the most targeted area of critical national infrastructure, the FBI has said recently.
"Cutting off 100 hospitals in Romania from the internet stopped the hackers in their tracks, buying time to work out how bad the attack was.
"But it meant no connected devices, emails or web browsers.
"Medical staff had to switch to pen and paper, improvising workarounds to protect patients while IT teams scrambled and the national cyber response centre tried to find out how the hackers had got in - and how they could stop them.
"Their actions over four days from 10 February 2024, and those of the doctors and nurses, have been widely praised.
How they reacted and how they coped has become a test case for disaster planners internationally, as officials look for advice on responding to a mass hospital hack."https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyk756mzlo
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/4ZOHC#ThePitt #NoTech #LoTech #Offline #Ransomware #PaperRecords #Hacking
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Demand Is Booming for New #NoTech, #Repairable #Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
by Jason Koebler
Jun 3, 2026"The secondary market for decades old, low-tech #JohnDeereTractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, 'no-tech' tractor to solve what has become a gigantic pain point for farmers?
"Alberta’s #UrsaAg says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare. We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management systems that prevent them from fixing their machinery, tractors that won’t run because of minor sensor failures, and crops that literally die on the vine as they wait for an 'authorized' repair person to fix tractors during critical harvesting periods.
"Ursa Ag markets its tractors as '#NoFrills' and 'built to last.' Ursa Ag’s Doug Wilson told me that the company designed the tractor because of a need in the marketplace for a new machine that isn’t loaded with tech and is easy to maintain. The company follows in the footsteps of consumer electronics companies like #Fairphone, which makes a repairable smartphone and #Framework, which makes modular, repairable #laptops. The demand Ursa Ag has seen is part of the backlash to manufacturer repair #monopolies and the injection of #technology and #InternetConnectedSensors and terms of use into even the most basic of gadgets.
" 'I talk to farmers every day and I hear from farmers every day about how they went out and bought machinery from 1987 so that it wouldn’t have a computer on it,' Wilson said. 'All of this came from a simple discussion with a customer who wanted to be able to turn [the tractor] on at the start of the day, to use it, and shut it off at the end of the day. It needed to work, so that’s what we built.'
"Ursa Ag’s tractor has been hyped in agriculture circles after Wilson showed the tractor off at a Canadian farm show and it was featured by Farms.com. Wilson said more than a thousand farmers have contacted him after that show, from roughly 30 countries. 'I got a handwritten letter from a farmer in France who doesn’t own a computer and wanted us to mail him information about the tractors,' he said."
Read more:
https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/ -
Demand Is Booming for New #NoTech, #Repairable #Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
by Jason Koebler
Jun 3, 2026"The secondary market for decades old, low-tech #JohnDeereTractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, 'no-tech' tractor to solve what has become a gigantic pain point for farmers?
"Alberta’s #UrsaAg says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare. We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management systems that prevent them from fixing their machinery, tractors that won’t run because of minor sensor failures, and crops that literally die on the vine as they wait for an 'authorized' repair person to fix tractors during critical harvesting periods.
"Ursa Ag markets its tractors as '#NoFrills' and 'built to last.' Ursa Ag’s Doug Wilson told me that the company designed the tractor because of a need in the marketplace for a new machine that isn’t loaded with tech and is easy to maintain. The company follows in the footsteps of consumer electronics companies like #Fairphone, which makes a repairable smartphone and #Framework, which makes modular, repairable #laptops. The demand Ursa Ag has seen is part of the backlash to manufacturer repair #monopolies and the injection of #technology and #InternetConnectedSensors and terms of use into even the most basic of gadgets.
" 'I talk to farmers every day and I hear from farmers every day about how they went out and bought machinery from 1987 so that it wouldn’t have a computer on it,' Wilson said. 'All of this came from a simple discussion with a customer who wanted to be able to turn [the tractor] on at the start of the day, to use it, and shut it off at the end of the day. It needed to work, so that’s what we built.'
"Ursa Ag’s tractor has been hyped in agriculture circles after Wilson showed the tractor off at a Canadian farm show and it was featured by Farms.com. Wilson said more than a thousand farmers have contacted him after that show, from roughly 30 countries. 'I got a handwritten letter from a farmer in France who doesn’t own a computer and wanted us to mail him information about the tractors,' he said."
Read more:
https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/ -
Demand Is Booming for New #NoTech, #Repairable #Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
by Jason Koebler
Jun 3, 2026"The secondary market for decades old, low-tech #JohnDeereTractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, 'no-tech' tractor to solve what has become a gigantic pain point for farmers?
"Alberta’s #UrsaAg says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare. We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management systems that prevent them from fixing their machinery, tractors that won’t run because of minor sensor failures, and crops that literally die on the vine as they wait for an 'authorized' repair person to fix tractors during critical harvesting periods.
"Ursa Ag markets its tractors as '#NoFrills' and 'built to last.' Ursa Ag’s Doug Wilson told me that the company designed the tractor because of a need in the marketplace for a new machine that isn’t loaded with tech and is easy to maintain. The company follows in the footsteps of consumer electronics companies like #Fairphone, which makes a repairable smartphone and #Framework, which makes modular, repairable #laptops. The demand Ursa Ag has seen is part of the backlash to manufacturer repair #monopolies and the injection of #technology and #InternetConnectedSensors and terms of use into even the most basic of gadgets.
" 'I talk to farmers every day and I hear from farmers every day about how they went out and bought machinery from 1987 so that it wouldn’t have a computer on it,' Wilson said. 'All of this came from a simple discussion with a customer who wanted to be able to turn [the tractor] on at the start of the day, to use it, and shut it off at the end of the day. It needed to work, so that’s what we built.'
"Ursa Ag’s tractor has been hyped in agriculture circles after Wilson showed the tractor off at a Canadian farm show and it was featured by Farms.com. Wilson said more than a thousand farmers have contacted him after that show, from roughly 30 countries. 'I got a handwritten letter from a farmer in France who doesn’t own a computer and wanted us to mail him information about the tractors,' he said."
Read more:
https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/ -
Demand Is Booming for New #NoTech, #Repairable #Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
by Jason Koebler
Jun 3, 2026"The secondary market for decades old, low-tech #JohnDeereTractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, 'no-tech' tractor to solve what has become a gigantic pain point for farmers?
"Alberta’s #UrsaAg says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare. We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management systems that prevent them from fixing their machinery, tractors that won’t run because of minor sensor failures, and crops that literally die on the vine as they wait for an 'authorized' repair person to fix tractors during critical harvesting periods.
"Ursa Ag markets its tractors as '#NoFrills' and 'built to last.' Ursa Ag’s Doug Wilson told me that the company designed the tractor because of a need in the marketplace for a new machine that isn’t loaded with tech and is easy to maintain. The company follows in the footsteps of consumer electronics companies like #Fairphone, which makes a repairable smartphone and #Framework, which makes modular, repairable #laptops. The demand Ursa Ag has seen is part of the backlash to manufacturer repair #monopolies and the injection of #technology and #InternetConnectedSensors and terms of use into even the most basic of gadgets.
" 'I talk to farmers every day and I hear from farmers every day about how they went out and bought machinery from 1987 so that it wouldn’t have a computer on it,' Wilson said. 'All of this came from a simple discussion with a customer who wanted to be able to turn [the tractor] on at the start of the day, to use it, and shut it off at the end of the day. It needed to work, so that’s what we built.'
"Ursa Ag’s tractor has been hyped in agriculture circles after Wilson showed the tractor off at a Canadian farm show and it was featured by Farms.com. Wilson said more than a thousand farmers have contacted him after that show, from roughly 30 countries. 'I got a handwritten letter from a farmer in France who doesn’t own a computer and wanted us to mail him information about the tractors,' he said."
Read more:
https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/ -
Demand Is Booming for New #NoTech, #Repairable #Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
by Jason Koebler
Jun 3, 2026"The secondary market for decades old, low-tech #JohnDeereTractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, 'no-tech' tractor to solve what has become a gigantic pain point for farmers?
"Alberta’s #UrsaAg says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare. We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management systems that prevent them from fixing their machinery, tractors that won’t run because of minor sensor failures, and crops that literally die on the vine as they wait for an 'authorized' repair person to fix tractors during critical harvesting periods.
"Ursa Ag markets its tractors as '#NoFrills' and 'built to last.' Ursa Ag’s Doug Wilson told me that the company designed the tractor because of a need in the marketplace for a new machine that isn’t loaded with tech and is easy to maintain. The company follows in the footsteps of consumer electronics companies like #Fairphone, which makes a repairable smartphone and #Framework, which makes modular, repairable #laptops. The demand Ursa Ag has seen is part of the backlash to manufacturer repair #monopolies and the injection of #technology and #InternetConnectedSensors and terms of use into even the most basic of gadgets.
" 'I talk to farmers every day and I hear from farmers every day about how they went out and bought machinery from 1987 so that it wouldn’t have a computer on it,' Wilson said. 'All of this came from a simple discussion with a customer who wanted to be able to turn [the tractor] on at the start of the day, to use it, and shut it off at the end of the day. It needed to work, so that’s what we built.'
"Ursa Ag’s tractor has been hyped in agriculture circles after Wilson showed the tractor off at a Canadian farm show and it was featured by Farms.com. Wilson said more than a thousand farmers have contacted him after that show, from roughly 30 countries. 'I got a handwritten letter from a farmer in France who doesn’t own a computer and wanted us to mail him information about the tractors,' he said."
Read more:
https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/ -
We have released #CollaboraOnline 25.04.10 for EGroupware
More details:
https://help.egroupware.org/t/de-uk-collabora-online-update-25-04-10/79816
Thanks to
@CollaboraOffice
and the community (collaboraonline.github.io) for the great work! 👍#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Collaboration #gdpr #LibreOffice #LOTech #CollaboraOnline
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We have released #CollaboraOnline 25.04.10 for EGroupware
More details:
https://help.egroupware.org/t/de-uk-collabora-online-update-25-04-10/79816
Thanks to
@CollaboraOffice
and the community (collaboraonline.github.io) for the great work! 👍#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Collaboration #gdpr #LibreOffice #LOTech #CollaboraOnline
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We have released #CollaboraOnline 25.04.10 for EGroupware
More details:
https://help.egroupware.org/t/de-uk-collabora-online-update-25-04-10/79816
Thanks to
@CollaboraOffice
and the community (collaboraonline.github.io) for the great work! 👍#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Collaboration #gdpr #LibreOffice #LOTech #CollaboraOnline
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We have released #CollaboraOnline 25.04.10 for EGroupware
More details:
https://help.egroupware.org/t/de-uk-collabora-online-update-25-04-10/79816
Thanks to
@CollaboraOffice
and the community (collaboraonline.github.io) for the great work! 👍#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Collaboration #gdpr #LibreOffice #LOTech #CollaboraOnline
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NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).
Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!
By skillcult
"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.
"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!
"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.
"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.
"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!
"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.
"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"
Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime -
NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).
Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!
By skillcult
"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.
"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!
"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.
"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.
"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!
"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.
"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"
Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime -
NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).
Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!
By skillcult
"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.
"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!
"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.
"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.
"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!
"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.
"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"
Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime -
NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).
Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!
By skillcult
"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.
"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!
"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.
"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.
"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!
"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.
"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"
Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime -
NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).
Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!
By skillcult
"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.
"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!
"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.
"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.
"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!
"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.
"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"
Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime -
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