Casa Robino

i was researching different ways of making soaps, since this is one of the things on the list of cool things i could make for house and give a workshop on. i've made soap several times before, usually coconut-based. this time, i was thinking more savon de marseille or savon de aleppo.

BirdHouse: A birdhouse made out of bio-plastic soon coming to the Casa? Yesterday, some of us attended a reading of our friend Michel Bauwens and got the opportunity to meet Erik, who opened our eyes of how easy it is to create our own customizable manufacturing capability.

Erik is involved in the Fablab-movement and he spoke with us about his experience with RepRap's. These are 3D printers designed to be freely reproduced by anyone. The cost of making them yourself is 500 euro.

But here comes the funny thing: you don't actually have to buy these components to build up the printer, but you manufacture them through a different 3D-printer, by using shared digital designs, and then assemble them yourself.

Dear Casa Robino.
May the wind be beneath your wings - all the wings you can make out of old bike rims and haywire.

If you would like to build a Wind Turbine, this is a fabulous hitch-out spot to start from: http://www.instructables.com/id/Wind_Power/

as you may know, casa-robino needs a birdhouse. Well, here is as a first step a useful link. So don't forget to bring some pieces of wood with you, if you visit Casa Robino next time. I'll bring a saw :-)