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Capitol Hill, The Capitol and Creative Capital
Sometimes it’s hard for us to realize there is a life outside of our Capitol Hill basement, especially when we do venture out and everything sounds the same.
Last week I headed out with Open3DP to Washington DC, for a whirlwind trip of 3D printing in our Nation’s Capital. I showed off the Clonedel and some of our new powder-printing skills to the House of Representatives and met up with Makerbot, Shapeways, Reprap and a whole host of 3D printing and DIY fabrication folks who were invited by Public Knowledge to talk about Intellectual Property and this new age of being able to make awesome things without having to go through the traditional manufacturing process. It was a fun-filled trip that involved a lot of robot-building, plastic space-invaders, bar-hopping and a couple of nervous TSA agents.
The second part of this exciting post is that we got to give local artists Sutton Beres Culler a hand with a really cool art piece (or rather 150 pieces) for Creative Capital’s 2011 Benefit Auction on the 5th of May. All of us at the shop have been wondering how this piece would come out once they got their hands on it, and it looks just amazing. I can’t wait until we see the pictures from the final interactive assembly at the benefit. If you are in New York (or heading to New York), tickets are still available for sale online.
Earthworms eat their garbage: Worm Bin Making by Sustainable Capitol Hill
Sustainable Capitol Hill took their meeting on the road tonight and came down to Metrix:Create Space to make worm composting bins. It looked like they had a great deal of fun with giant plastic bins, cordless drills and tearing up a great deal of newspaper. Cheap, easy assembly, and you just need two plastic bins (one for worms and worm food, the other to catch the drips), a power drill, a boxcutter and two teeny vents. And let’s not forget the earthworms and their worm food (damp newspaper and food scraps).
The bins they made were a great deal like ones described in this guide, but SCH got fancy and bought little tiny vent covers to insert in the top of the bins (see picture number three). This only requires a trip to the hardware store, an outlay of a few more dollars, and a couple more minutes work with a boxcutter. If you really want to make sure your earthworm buddies get enough air, it seems like it’s worth the effort.
This worm bin can be kept indoors or outdoors. The double bin construction prevents leaks and if you maintain your new worm friends well, the contents of the bin will just smell like good rich soil. The SCH folks did mention the possibility of fly problems, but they said that if the bin is never outdoors (and I assume, flies don’t get in your house a lot), flies won’t have the chance to invade, lay eggs and be a nuisance.
