Book description
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!
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Table of contents
- Preface
- I. Morning
- 1. Think You’ve Mastered Fire? Make and Use a Bow Drill.
- 2. Hogwash: Bacon Soap
- 3. Kitchen Table Cider Making
- 4. Paper Making
- 5. Olde-School Bookbinding
- II. Afternoon
- 6. Fool’s Stool
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7. Rok-Bak Chair
- Step 1: Make the Plywood Pieces
- Step 2: Make the Cross Braces
- Step 3: Assemble the Basic Chair
- Step 4: Make and Attach the Arms
- Step 5: Make the Footstool Assembly
- Step 6: Make the Headrest
- Step 7: Convert to Rok-Bak Version (Optional)
- Step 8: Finish the Wood and Pad the Arms
- Step 9: Make Yourself Comfortable
- 8. The Lost Art of Lashing: A Photo Essay
- III. Evening
- 9. Pickle Grapes and Beets at Home
- 10. Brine and Roast a Turkey
- 11. Roasting Pumpkin Seeds
- IV. Night
- 12. Da Vinci Reciprocating Mechanism
- 13. Oil Lamp from the Cave Dwellers of Lascaux
- Index
Product information
- Title: Make: Like The Pioneers
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2015
- Publisher(s): Make: Community
- ISBN: 9781680450545
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