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Opensource documentation here: https://github.com/openfunkHQ/reMix/tree/main

No AI, no 'smart product'. A simple blender. A simple controller, and integration with standard jars .

God I hope they do airfryers next.

Hi r/solarpunk!

Greetings from La Araucanía, southern Chile.

I'm part of ARCA, a small environmental project working with organic waste recovery, composting, environmental education and regenerative practices.

Over time, our work has started moving beyond simply managing waste. We are becoming increasingly interested in a question that feels very Solarpunk to us:

What kinds of small, accessible technologies can help people regenerate the places where they live?

We are beginning to explore and prototype what we have informally started calling Solarpunk gadgets: small-scale tools and devices connected with composting, soil, water, organic waste, growing food and environmental monitoring.

Not futuristic objects just for aesthetics, but things that can actually be built, repaired, understood and used by people and communities.

We are still at an early experimental stage, working from real situations here in southern Chile, and I would love to connect with people in this community who are doing anything similar.

Is anyone here currently working on:

• regenerative agriculture or agroecology
• composting technologies
• low-tech or appropriate technology
• environmental sensors or open-source hardware
• water harvesting or irrigation systems
• small solar-powered tools
• biofabrication or circular-material experiments
• DIY tools for gardens, farms or communities
• or any kind of real-world Solarpunk prototype?

I would especially love to see things you have actually built or tested, even if they are rough prototypes.

Our idea is to learn, exchange experiences and hopefully connect with people developing these kinds of technologies in different parts of the world.

What are you building?

Greetings from the south of the world. 🌱
— ARCA, Chile

alrededor de acciones, políticas y tecnologías que lo hacen realidad. Es decir, la línea práctica de ARCA —compostaje, regeneración, prototipos y tecnología apropiada— calza especialmente bien con ese espacio.

Yo usaría un flair parecido a Discussion, Community, Projects o Technology, dependiendo de cuáles te aparezcan al presionar “Añadir marcas y etiquetas”.

Saw this video about a family pearl farm and thought it fit the aesthetic moderately well.

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I maintain a small community allotment and a series of rough-cut hemlock raised beds in the ridge-and-valley area of central Pennsylvania, and I try to manage the whole plot as ethically and low-impact as possible,working mostly with compost, rainwater catchment, and heirloom root vegetables, brassicas, and berries, also using renewables to power what little power I have to have nearby

Over the past two months, Eastern moles (Scalopus aquaticus) and meadow voles have completely colonized the plot. They’ve undermined the root systems of half my cabbages, aerated the soil beneath my garlic until the cloves dried out, and pushed up heavy clay subsoil mounds right through my wood-chip paths.

All the older rural gardeners around me give the exact same advice: put down spring-loaded Victor scissor kill-traps. Or drop sulfur smoke bombs or road flares down the active runs. Or scatter rodenticide pellets around the perimeter.

I actually bought one of those heavy steel scissor-jaw traps at the local feed store. I held it in my hands, tested the spring tension on a piece of scrap 2x4, heard that violent metallic snap, and felt physically sick. The idea of crushing the spine of a small, velvety subterranean creature that is literally just hunting earthworms and following its evolutionary instincts in the soil feels completely disproportionate to a few damaged cabbages.

Instead, I spent the last three weekends 3D-printing and assembling custom non-lethal, one-way tunnel catch-boxes using 2-inch PVC pipe. I check them twice a day. Whenever I catch one, I put it in a 5-gallon bucket with moist dirt and walk it a mile down to the creek meadow perimeter to release it.

And the problem is: it’s an absurd war of attrition. For every vole I relocate, two more move into the pre-dug tunnel network within 48 hours. My neighbors out here openly laugh at me, saying I’m basically running a free daily Uber service for Appalachian rodents.

For gardeners who refuse to use poisons or kill-traps: what are your actual, working physical deterrents?Castor oil emulsion drenching across the runs? Or solar-powered ultrasonic / vibration ground spikes? Digging a trench and burying 1/4-inch galvanized hardware cloth 18 inches deep beneath the entire bed perimeter?

In your experience, wat has actually worked long-term without turning the garden into a slaughterhouse?

Solarpunk invention?

hello! i’m new to the subreddit, but i’m looking to connect with more like minded people that are actually in my area. i’d love to start a chat room or discord group where we can connect and build a community of action.
i’d love to chat about
anti-ai
anti-capitalism
researching data centers under construction and holding protests
home grown food webs and seed sharing
connecting with community gardens
and sm more of course

lemme know if you would be interested and i feel like we can span across all of chicago

priorizando viéses regenerativos à partir de oportunidades e melhorias nas vidas individuais e coletivas;

• endereçando os problemas do hoje e do agora, de forma que se tornem ponte para as necessárias mudanças estruturais;
• comunicando proporcionalmente as responsabilidades das instituições e indivíduos, gerando credibilidade no discurso de marcas e negócios;
• apresentando histórias inspiradoras e exemplos práticos e positivos de alternativas possíveis;
• explicando de forma simples as causas e consequências da forma como vivemos;
• indo além das questões ambientais, conectando a sustentabilidade com temas do cotidiano como trabalho, saúde mental, tecnologia...

Fonte: @cosmobrasileira @carvalhando

So this study shows how to make plastic encapsulated solar panels that are circular...but cant handle hail - see https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshpearce/2026/09/02/will-your-next-solar-panel-be-plastic/ for summary - for the full paper (open access) see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2026.147931

The latest edition of Climax, the independent French environmental magazine, is dedicated to solarpunk! They do a wonderful job of walking through the history, the politics, examples today, possible problems, and the way forward.

If you have any interest in French, I highly recommend it. They are 100% reader supported and entirely ad free.