This is a place for you to talk about things you’ve been working on, projects that you think are cool, things that you’re doing and etc. I’m hopeful that seeing people’s cool projects and efforts can be inspiring to the rest of us!
This is a place for you to talk about things you’ve been working on, projects that you think are cool, things that you’re doing and etc. I’m hopeful that seeing people’s cool projects and efforts can be inspiring to the rest of us!
I’ve got a few projects going - I’m writing a TTRPG campaign for the solarpunk game Fully Automated, which I’m hoping to test and eventually release libre and gratis through their official channels. All my work so far has been on setting, characters, plot points etc, so I think you could use most game systems for it, though I am hoping to build out any gameplay stuff next (statting out some characters in FA’s system and building a minigame around soil and water testing). The campaign itself involves exploring a mostly abandoned former bedroom community, searching for illegally dumped industrial waste from sixty years before so it can be safely removed and used in the production of geopolymers.
I’ve made a couple grocery trips on the mountain bike I recently started setting up as a cargo bike.
I’ve been fixing up an ewaste MacBook to donate to a refugee resettlement group.
I’ve also been getting into bookbinding, which I’m now using to make physical copies of some of my favorite extremely self published ebooks, none of which ever got a hardcopy release, some of which never got released as anything but serialized fiction on a blog or paywalled patreon. I’m not sure how much making something from entirely new materials falls under solarpunk for me, but I really like the idea of making long-lasting versions of these books.
Here’s one of the ones I just finished - I’ve found I really enjoy the process of physically making these books. It’s very satisfying. Theyre stitched like hardcovers, so they’ll hold together well, but glued into a printed canvas softcover (my local makerspace has a plotter printer and my SO figured out they can run a big roll of canvas through it).
dang, the bookbinding looks super cool! good for you. i am slowly beginning to investigate a partnership between my workplace (in the IT field, and we do a lot of ewaste recycling) and the local migrant center to provide them with a bunch of machines for things like GED, citizenship study, and communication.
That’s awesome! I hope it works out! I’m just giving whatever laptops and tablets I can get to the group to give to individuals but it helps them with resumes, calling home, etc.