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Growing Oyster mushrooms + Easy Jacob's Ladder + Basement wall ideas - C C - Feb 8, 2017
Growing your own Oyster mushrooms
http://fivegallonideas.com/mushroom-farm/
EXCERPT: The easiest way to grow mushrooms at home is with a five gallon bucket full of coffee grounds, and some Oyster Mushroom spawn. The guide below will get you started growing your very own Oyster mushrooms. Oyster mushrooms can grow quite large and produce a lot of food using little space. Seeing the success others have had growing large Oyster mushrooms made me eager to try it out for myself. One youtuber’s grow kit showed oysters as big as dinner plates, growing out of something the size of a football. What you’ll need....
Easy Jacob's Ladder
http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Jacobs-Ladder/
EXCERPT: A Jacob's Ladder visualizes electricity by creating a plasma arc that lets you view electricity itself. This project uses exceptionally high voltages and is very dangerous, and should only be done by people confident in what they are doing and who are not working alone. This Jacob's Ladder is made with two conductive aluminum rulers that have a 12,000V arc continually rising up between them. If that sounds like a lot of voltage, it's because it is a lot.
I know I may be repeating myself, but I cannot stress this enough - this project is dangerous and should not be attempted by anyone who is unsure of what they are doing or working alone! Always make sure someone is nearby while working on this project. If it sounds like I am trying to scare you, I am. You should have a healthy fear of the amount of electricity that is required to ionize air, and conduct as plasma across an air gap. This is not a toy....
Basement Wall Ideas: Check Out This 3 Hour Project
http://www.fauxpanels.com/blog/basement-wall-ideas-3-hours
EXCERPT: If you’re looking for design ideas for your basement walls, it doesn’t get much simpler and faster than this project. See how Nick from southeastern Michigan added major wow factor with Wellington Dry Stack panels in the Boston color. “This was by far one of the easiest projects we tackled for our basement,” Nick wrote to us, “It took approximately three hours to complete.”
[...] “The pictures don’t do it justice,” Nick admits. “It definitely provides a ‘wow’ factor to our wall. These panels of yours look very real, and everyone who has come over has questioned if the wall was real or not – and if it was difficult to complete!”