PVC Innovation World: Page 3

This is just one example of how PVC can be used as a prototyping material for robot designers.

Even the pipes themselves make cool toys, but it's possible to do some really fun stuff with PVC!  Potato guns, anyone?  And that's just the beginning....

Have you started to add bends to your work yet?

Oh, yeah.  I was a skeptic, too.  A few things are worth noting, though.

This guy has some great ideas, from planters to storage containers.

Believe it or not, once you heat this stuff up, it takes on the consistency of a cooked spaghetti noodle, and from there, you can do some amazing things.

This space is dedicated to questions people may have about using PVC Pipe in irrigation applications.  I'd love to see some irrigation pros join the conversation, as I'm really just a hobbyist here.

I've been hell-bent on complete self sufficiency for a long time now. There was a point where I was living in a self-sustaining community in the mountains in Colorado, and we had a very large greenhouse there. Dragging the hose around to water plants was a real pain, and that stuck in the back of my mind even after I left the place. It would have been much easier to integrate watering into the frame at construction time than doing that hose dance every day.

I'd like to use this space to answer any questions you may have about the self-watering greenhouse concept, as well as take any new ideas you might have.  I want this option to be WIDE open to the public, and I'd like to know what other people are thinking.

This guy has a lot of cool projects, and he's one of my influences toward seeing what else this pipe can do.

If you haven't had a pile of pipe and fittings to play with before, it's hard to see what is so cool about a plain, plastic pipe.  All it does in the house is carry the poop away.  Really, who cares?