PVC Innovation Features
News: PVC Workshop
This guy has a lot of cool projects, and he's one of my influences toward seeing what else this pipe can do.
News: Cheap Hexapod - Six Legged PVC Robot
This is just one example of how PVC can be used as a prototyping material for robot designers.
News: The Art of Making a Custom Predator Call
Strange as it may seem to super urban people, certain animals, like coyotes, have high reproduction rates and can be a true menace to ranching. Even in the county where I live, which is home to Colorado Springs, there is a $30 bounty on coyotes. All you have to do is bring in both ears to the game warden, and you will be paid.
News: Mark and Joe Build a Spaceship - Ultra Recycling!
These guys take found item recycling to the max. This isn't exactly the most useful application for recycling, but if the stuff is going to be around for the next couple of thousand years, it might as well look cool.
News: Eleven Super Cool Designs
Not all of these are PVC, but there is some serious design action going on here. This is not your average. A lot of the projects out there, mine included, have a childish, do it yourself-ish feel to them. These eleven designs are slick, beautiful and professional.
News: Rick's Pipe Dream - Magnetic Motor/Generator
This is really cool. He goes pretty deep into the principles of magnetism before actually showing how his generator comes together and works. Great information.
News: Cool Freakin Scarecrow
This is all I can say. He shows step by step. The Picture speaks, I be quiet.
News: Re-Recyclable PVC Landscape
The P.S. 1 Young Architects Program design competition is always an amazing event. Recently, an architectural firm called Bjarke Ingels Group made this showing at the P.S.1.
News: Hey, I'm Not the Only One!
Not only am I not the only one, but I'm not the only one saying I'm not the only one!
News: The Modern Victory Garden + Vermiculture Tips
I WILL BOMBARD YOU WITH GARDEN IDEAS UNTIL YOU GROW YOUR OWN FOOD!
News: HAM and CB Antenna
This is the first part in a pretty long series called 'My Quad Project' where this dude shows you in exacting detail how to make a very nice antenna. There are a lot of these out there, but this guy uses heavy pipe and he has a great understanding of how it all works. If you're an amateur radio junkie, this just may be for you.
News: PVC?!? Seriously?!?
Oh, yeah. I was a skeptic, too. A few things are worth noting, though. 1) This stuff is cheap. You can get started on a project for very little money. Even advanced fabrication tools are reasonably priced.
News: Home Made Van De Graaff Generator
This has a great tutorial for making the generator and a few fun things you can do with it.
News: The Leviathan - Huge PVC Sculpture
Just when I thought I'd scoured the internet for every cool existing PVC project, this thing came up.
News: Build a Net Gun
What with all the protesting going on, these may be necessary to stave off police brutality!
News: Connected at the Hip - PVC Wrapped Furniture
This stuff is weird, but it sure is interesting.
News: Hand-Powered water pump.
It is so easy that there's a kid showing how to do it. This pump can mean the difference between water and no water in some places.
News: The Green House - Vertical Gardening Exterior Walls
This is one concept that I would love to see sweep the urban world. One thing that strikes me every time I visit a major city is how far away they are from anything that is truly alive. Not only is the air dirty, but everyone must buy their produce from the grocery store. If those trucks were to stop coming for any reason, most people, if not everyone, would die of starvation. While this house is covered with ornamental plants, I would love to see this same concept applied to edible plants an...
News: Underwater Remote Operated Vehicle
This is a cool thing that shows how to make a remote controlled submarine with a camera attached. If you live near a large body of water, you should make one of these.
News: Peruvian Causa - Layered Potato Salad Using PVC Mold
A thousand words.
News: Bent PVC Mobile for Ptolemy
this is a mobile that i made for my son. sorry about the poor image quality. this is in response to the question in the comments on the sculpture how to
News: Fibonacci Graffiti
Oh, the fun of bending sheets.
News: Formufit Structural PVC
I'm new here, but wanted to add formufit to the list of links on your cork board. They are solely sellers of structural PVC items, used to build greenhouses and such. I am currently building some outdoor PVC furniture as the weather here in Missouri has destroyed our previous 'durable store bought' furniture. I saw some other resources on here, but I just bought a slew of products from formufit.com and I thought I would share. I will post some photos of the completed furniture soon.
News: PVC is also a great material for art!
This was done by heating up the entire pipe, cutting the sections lengthwise, turning them inside out and tying them into crazy shapes.
News: Theo Jansen's Magnificent Strandbeests
After seeing your tutorial on making PVC sculptures, I remembered Theo Jansen. His sculptures are so beautiful. Are they made with PVC? It's some kind of plastic tubing...
News: Another PVC Greenhouse
There'll be about a million of these here, but i can't stress enough how cool it is to grow your own food in a greenhouse that you've built for yourself. This guy has a cool looking design.
News: Hand-Held Hubble Telescope Model
It's not actually a working telescope, but it is a cool model to show kids and Hubble image enthusiasts what the telescope actually looks like. Includes printable skins so the texture map looks like the actual satellite.
News: Optics and Optimism - An Inventor In Okara
This guy made his own telescope, and you're never going to guess what he used for the body.
News: One of the Best DIY Costumes Ever!
This guy has gone all out. Amazing craftsmanship and complete photo documentation of his making process.
News: Jeremy P's Blog - Tubulum FAQ
This is the personal blog for the maker of the Monster Tubulum. The section this link is pointing to is the FAQ's for people who want to build their own PVC instruments.
News: PVCDESIGN.org
WOO! These people take beautiful design to ridiculous extremes, taking PVC pipe, sheet and cloth to previously unexplored heights. This is a must-see for people who are in the PVC and design worlds.
News: Rough How-To for PVC Wind Turbine
there is no explanation, but this video does visually illustrate the basic principles of VAWT design and construction.
News: PVC Pipe in the Home, Garden, etc.
This guy has some great ideas, from planters to storage containers.
News: Ski Jump Rails With No Snow
Just check out the video.
News: Flying Spaghetti Monster Statue
For those that don't know, Pastafarianism is the understanding that the entire universe was created by a flying spaghetti monster. These people have made a statue as a shrine to worship. (he he) Originally a poke at organized religion, the Flying Spaghetti Monster has taken hold as a spoof belief structure in that it is no more or less feasible than any other monotheism. Think what you want, but the statue is great. They tour it all over a county.
News: Rain Water Harvesting 101
This shows how to collect rain water for future use from the roof of your house. Very cool setup, but be careful not to break the law while you're doing it. I know that here in Colorado, it is actually illegal to collect rain water without a permit. Scary, huh?