Normally when you want something about nature explained to you, you either look it up on Google or have someone like Sir David Attenborough narrate it to you in a soothing voice. While Max Egorov from Advoko MAKES doesn’t speak the best English (he is a native Russian speaker), he goes the extra mile to explain how a normal, everyday tick sticks itself onto your skin. More importantly, he shows us the best way to remove it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq6DTikcMe8&t=270s Being a victim of tick bites while working outdoors, Egorov has found that the easiest (and cheapest) way to remove ticks is by cutting a v-shaped wedge using a plastic bottle or…
A wood-burning stove for outdoor activities is probably the best option if you don’t want to bring fuel, butane, or some other form of fire starter. Unlike traditional stoves, which depend on other liquid fuels, wood-burning stoves may use twigs, pines, and other small branches available in your area as fuel. With this, we rounded up several great wood-burning stoves in the market that can help you in having a successful outdoor trip. We tested all of them with the help of our team of experts to further assist you in narrowing down your options. As a result, we’ve ranked them to help you spot the perfect wood-burning stove according…
Rust on your automobile, tools, and equipment, or anywhere else in your home can be inconvenient and hazardous in the worst cases. Iron oxide, commonly known as rust, can accumulate on metal over time, particularly whenever there is moisture in them. From time to time, rust may erode on your automobile, tools, and equipment as well as other things in your home and may cause extensive harm. This problem calls for a rust remover: the absolute solution that can resolve this matter. A rust remover is a substance made to remove rust as well as other types of corrosion. It dissolves it by reacting with the rust while limiting the…
Halloween is still months away, but the boring online video calls are definitely not going anywhere anytime soon. So why not spice things up with a mask that projects all sorts of digital images? A couple of years ago, Sean Hodgins thought of a cool idea for a mask. By installing a projector connected to a teeny-tiny Raspberry Pi Zero computer and affixing it in front of a 3D printed mask, he was able to project all kinds of image files onto his face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WefSub8qesQ So how exactly did he go about making this creepy, yet totally awesome identity-hiding device? Sean gives us a close look at all the components…
Watering your backyard or garden doesn’t have to be tiresome. A soaker hose solves this problem by continuously watering your plants in a controlled amount and pressure. There are different soaker hoses that can do this according to your preference. And since there are so many options in the market to choose from, there are few things that you should always put in mind before buying a soaker hose for your backyard or garden. Scanning your options, of course, translates to pages and pages of research you need to read on your end just to find the right one. But to make things easier for you, our team of experts…
We always need access to a decent toilet wherever we are. Unfortunately looking for buildings and places that house the conventional type of toilet can be a challenge; especially if you are in the mountain, a deserted place, or literally on a desert while driving your RV. Thankfully, we found a way to create a system that would allow us to contain our waste while preventing the annoying odor: composting toilets. Composting toilet is an innovative type of toilet. It holds and contains human waste and treats it biologically through the composting process. While it doesn’t kill the pathogens in the material, the process decomposes the waste and turns it…