Made FarmBot home-kit. Now helps NASA on farming by Kirsten Dirksen on June 12, 2021 In 2014, Rory Aronson launched FarmBot, a farming robot built on open-source principles. It wasn’t long before they were noticed …
Bought dark fixer-upper. Turned it into dream home (before/after) by Kirsten Dirksen on June 6, 2021 Three years ago, we embarked on a family project. We found a derelict (and affordable) country home located in a …
Full home unfolds in 1-hour, kitchen & bathroom included by Kirsten Dirksen on May 28, 2021 The Boxabl Casita is a $49,000 home that begins as an easily-transportable 8-foot wide box and unfolds into 375-square-feet of …
In search of lost books: an odyssey across Paris by Kirsten Dirksen on May 22, 2021 We think of virtual as something that is detached from reality, but how can we take advantage of this virtual …
Our definition of “home,” place, & belonging (documentary) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 16, 2021 Wanting to examine the meaning of home in a reference point for Western Civilization, our family of 5 boarded a …
Voxel Cabin grows food, reuses water, makes energy from waste by Kirsten Dirksen on May 8, 2021 With the goal of building a cabin without relying on materials from the outside world, those at Valldaura Labs accessed …
Done with city life, he’s reviving an ancient housebarn by Kirsten Dirksen on May 1, 2021 Traditional Basque housebarns – “baserri” (“caserío”, in Spanish) – are farmsteads that could sustain the multiple generations of family that …
U-Build hands-on: a flat-pack modular home you can assemble by Kirsten Dirksen on April 24, 2021 U-Build is a modular construction system even completely inexperienced builders can assemble with simple hand tools. The flat-pack kit is …
This apartment packs 3 bedrooms + 2 beds in beehive-cabinet by Kirsten Dirksen on April 17, 2021 To turn a one-bedroom apartment into a home for a family of five, Pierre-Louis Gerlier crafted bed pods inside a …
Bought rocky lot, created megalith home amid boulders by Kirsten Dirksen on April 10, 2021 Steve Demarest took advantage of the huge boulders covering his land in the Cascade Mountains to build a home that …
