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    How to make everything yourself - online low-tech resources



    Energy Bulletin pointed us to the website of Practical Action (previously known as the Schumacher Centre for Technology & Development), an online resource devoted to low-technology solutions for developing countries. The site hosts many manuals that can also be of interest for low-tech DIYers in the developed world. They cover energy, agriculture, food processing, construction and manufacturing, just to name some important categories.




    We would like to add to this the impressive online library put together by software engineer Alex Weir. The 900 documents listed here (13 gigabytes in total) are not as well organised and presented as those of Practical Action, but there is a wealth of information that is not found anywhere else. The library is also hosted here (without search engine).




    Other interesting online resources that offer manuals and instructions are Appropedia, Howtopedia and Open Source Ecology. These are all wiki's, so you can cooperate. The Centre for Alternative technologies has many interesting manuals, too, but the majority of those are not for free.



    Previously: The museum of old techniques / A do-it-ourselves guide. This article was first published at NTM.

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    Re: How to make everything yourself - online low-tech resources

    Dear Rajiv,
    Nice, but....yawn. About any small farmer has built more stuff of this sort than you can imagine. Been there, done that myself more than I'd care to remember.
    They didn't even mention this. http://www.riferam.com/

    I do love most of your posts.

    Take care. Stetts

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      Re: How to make everything yourself - online low-tech resources

      Actually from the very first link, I get to Water and sanitation and from there to Hydraulic ram pumps. Yes I have been there and done that also. However, these are useful pieces of information to have around, and knowledge worth preserving in many places.

      And thanks for the Rife Rams site a useful place to shop for such things if needed.

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