Meet Ken, a workforce management specialist and instructor who’s learning on Coursera while living in Ireland. In a recent interview, he spoke with us about how he’s using Guided Projects—Coursera’s new short, hands-on learning experiences—to continue building relevant career skills. Ken, thank you for taking the chance to talk with us! Can you start by […]
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15 Organic Homemade Plant Food For Your Homestead
You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive soil fertilizers. There are dozens of homemade plant food recipes and ingredients you can use to boost plant growth and improve soil health. RELATED: Homemade Fertilizer from Compost 15 Simple, Inexpensive Homemade Plant Food Recipes and Ingredients 1. Baking Soda-Ammonia Plant Food Need a quick…Continue Reading
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Hand sanitizer sold out? Here’s how to make your own.
High alcohol content ensures that DIY hand sanitizers will effectively reduce coronavirus when soap and water aren’t available. Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-diy-hand-sanitizer.html
Made in China 8-Core x86 CPU Released
AmiMoJo writes: Zhaoxin, a fabless chip maker based in Shanghai, has produced a homegrown x86 CPU line that’s apparently ready for the DIY scene. The Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000 series of processors were originally shown off in 2018, but since then we had heard little about them. Now it seems that the KX-U6780A will come to market this quarter, as listed on…
Utah Man Builds Bulletproof Stormtrooper Suit With 3-D Printer
schwit1 quotes CNN’s report on a software engineer who who really loves Star Wars costumes: “I kind of incorporated all of the things that I’ve learned in 3-D printing and DIY into this project,” said Nils Rasmusson. Over the course of nine months, he printed the suit and put it together. “I had to figure out — how do you…
Ask Slashdot: Will We Ever Be Able To Make Our Own Computer Hardware At Home?
dryriver writes: The sheer extent of the data privacy catastrophe happening — everything software/hardware potentially spies on us, and we don’t get to see what is in the source code or circuit diagrams — got me thinking about an intriguing possibility. Will it ever be possible to design and manufacture your own CPU, GPU, ASIC or RAM chip right in your…
Right-to-Repair Groups Don’t Buy Apple’s Answers To Congress
Last week, Apple responded to a series of questions that the US House Judiciary Committee sent to it back in September as part of a broader antitrust probe. Apple answered a series of questions about its hardware repair programs. It emphasized that it doesn’t restrict repairs or refuse to repair gadgets that might have been fixed previously by unauthorized technicians. For…
How To Harvest Basil Like A Pro | Homesteading Guide
Harvesting of basil leaves is a very intricate job and the growth of the basil plant and how bushy it is, depends a lot on whether you are getting it right. For you to always have fresh basil ready in your kitchen learn how to harvest Basil like a pro!
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California Wildfires Spark Interest In DIY Home Protection
As California struggles through a wildfire season that has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and burned hundreds of homes, researchers are seeking ways to protect buildings including by wrapping them in “fire blankets.” Reuters reports: Last month, Fumiaki Takahashi, a professor at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, published the findings of 10 years of research on the…
World Pinball-Playing Record Broken During Gamers’ Livestreaming-for-Charity Event
haaz (Slashdot reader #3,346) tells us that history has just been made as part of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals annual online game-playing fundraiser, Extra Life: A man from Milwaukee, Wisconsin is trying to play pinball long enough to break the standing Guinness World Record for Longest Marathon Pinball Play of 30 hours 10 minutes. He’s using Extra Life’s gaming/DIY fundraising…