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nonviolent communication NVC
3 hour YouTube video of Marshall Rosenburg’s Nonviolent Communication Workshop. At least watch the first 5 or ten minutes.
http://youtu.be/XBGlF7-MPFI
One semester of Spanish Love Song
I’m still trying to learn Spanish. Maybe this will help.
Korean Hangul in 20 minutes
Motoped Survival Bike
Survival Bike
assembled US$3199.00
http://www.motoped-choose-your-adventure.com/survival/
Lithium Battery storage for solar
2.6 Kwhr Energy Storage System – Lithium batteries 12 Volts connected in series. Pack Voltage Nominal 12 VDC; Pack Voltage Peak 16 VDC; Cycle life 3000 Cycles; Five year prorated warranty. Includes Battery Management system, cell monitoring of temperature and voltage control. Includes fuse and contactor [ battery disconnect]. Works seamlessly with most leading solar charge controllers and inverters. Max Charge voltage not to exceed 14.4 VDC. Cell balancing at .75 amps. $1650
mobile washer
Yup, it’s just a fancy plunger . Put dirty clothes in 5 gallon bucket with water and a little detergent. Plunge up and down for a couple of minutes. Repeat with rinse water. About $25
Wanderers
Carvey desktop cnc
“Carvey is a new, remarkably easy to use, tabletop 3D carving machine”
$2400 on Kickstarter
iBox Nano 3D Resin Printer
“Created with the home based user in mind, the iBox Nano is the worlds smallest, most affordable 3D Resin Printer” $300 on Kickstarter
Battery watering solution
Keep your wet batteries wet. Replace the vent caps with caps that have a float valve connected to a gravity fed distilled water source.
http://usbattery.com/install-battery-watering-technologies-single-point-watering-system/
Venus bucket mounted mini washing machine
Dorothée Loriquet Sculptures Céramiques
CGP Grey videos on youtube
knowledge well explained
https://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey/videos
Motoped
Marry a mountain bike to the legendary Honda xr50 4-stroke OHV motor and this is what you get. And from Santa Cruz.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2097071998/
ZeroHour XD Flashlight
It’s a little big and expensive at $225 but has a 1000 lumen Cree LED and can be used as a 10,000+mAh USB charger.
http://www.zerohourxd.com/products/zerohour-xd-flashlight
QU-BD One Up – Open Source Production Ready 3D Printer
$199 on kickstarter
MakesmithCNC desktop CNC router
MakesmithCNC desktop router $195 on kickstarter started by two guys from Santa Cruz
New Matter MOD-t 3d printer
indiegogo $199 3d printer partnered with Frog Design
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-matter-mod-t-3d-printing-for-everyone/
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Kindle Formatting
There is a lot of stupid and confusing info for formatting your book for Amazon Kindle. These are the best guides I’ve found so far.
https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A17W8UM0MMSQX6
http://johnaugust.com/2009/kindle-formatting-for-web-geeks
The ebook Design and Development Guide by Paul Salvette
http://derekjcanyon.blogspot.com/2010/10/step-by-by-step-kindle-ebook-html.html
http://kindleformatting.com/formatting.php
From Kindle Formatting:
Use the custom
<mbp:pagebreak />tags to mark pagebreaks in the text. I suggest you include one in front of every chapter or section.The Kindle has built-in bookmarks for the Table of Contents and the start of the book’s content. Use the following anchor tags to mark those places in your book:
<a name="TOC"/>and<a name="start"/>. Place the anchors right after the page break tag, before any headings or paragraphs.