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Discarding the utility company + Add mechanical movements to carved pumpkin - C C - Oct 22, 2015
Old, house new energy: ditch your utility company
http://www.oldhouseweb.com/blog/old-house-new-energy-ditch-utility-company/
EXCERPT: Utility companies work on a centralized model, and for one hundred years have relied on legal monopolies to ensure that they make a profit. They build giant, central, and unhealthy power plants designed to meet demand on the hottest and coldest days of the year. They can adjust to changing energy needs and they aren't interested in sharing the profit with you. In the past several months, the end of the old-school energy monopolies has come into plain site. Very soon you will be able to be your own energy producer and store that energy to use whenever you please. [...] Tesla wants to make your home a "virtual power plant."....
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Bring Your Pumpkin to Life with Mechanical Movements
http://makezine.com/2015/10/22/bring-your-pumpkin-to-life-with-mechanical-movements/
EXCERPT: Carving pumpkins is fun, but after a while it can become routine. [...] Engineer Ben Brandt, however, decided to take things one step further, and construct his pumpkin so that the eyes and tongue move via a crank-driven cam mechanism....
RE: Discarding the utility company + Add mechanical movements to carved pumpkin - Magical Realist - Oct 22, 2015
My shop won the pumpkin carving contest on our ship back in 93. We dressed it to look like our senior chief, with a strobe light going off on the inside. I carved the pumpkin myself since everyone knew of my artistic talent. The high tech effects were expected. We were after all Electronics Technicians.