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Make: Like the Pioneers - PDF
Drawn from the pages of Make: magazine, these 13 projects might just save your life.
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You may have mastered Arduino and 3D printing, but what will you make when the power goes out? This book, featuring projects drawn from previous issues of Make: and Craft:, features projects you can build with little or no technology. Whether it's making your own cider or starting a fire with a bow drill, the projects in this book will let you keep Making even when you're away from civilization. Whether you're on a camping trip or fortifying the last human settlement against hordes of zombies, you'll find something in this book that will keep you happy, engaged, and most important of all . . . alive!
Projects Included
- Make your own bacon soap
- Light a matchless fire
- Cider-making 101
- Make your own paper and bind your own book
- Create a 'fool's stool,' a Rok-Bak chair, and learn to lash
- Pickle grapes and beets
- Brine and roast a turkey
- Make a Da Vinci Reciprocating Machine
- Craft your own oil lamp like cave dwellers of yore!