This guide explains how to construct an energy-efficient cooking appliance powered by a small solar panel. Thanks to its heat storage, the cooker remains ready to use even after sunset.
This manual guides you through the process of building a 12V DC electric resistance heating element for a self-made heating or cooking device.
A balcony awning provides shading and cooling with minimal time, effort, and expense.
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.
How to make books more sustainable? Inspired by the image compression on our solar-powered website, we squeezed the article catalog of our three-volume book series into just one book.
This manual explains how to assemble an electrically heated and insulated table that keeps you toasty warm in a cold space.
This guide explains everything you need to know to build stand-alone photovoltaic systems that can power almost anything you want.
Low-tech Magazine built a bicycle generator for an exhibition on energy at the Pavillon d’Arsenal in Paris, now open to the public. Our two other bikes can be seen and experimented with in Rotterdam and Barcelona.
From 10 to 14 October, Low-tech Magazine holds a free workshop where we will build a bicycle generator together.
Using solar panels without backup infrastructure makes renewable energy production much more affordable, efficient and sustainable.
Andy Lagzdins built and documented a pedal-powered air compressor to run the power tools in his motorcycle workshop.
While manufacturing modern firearms and bullets depends on a global supply chain and fossil fuels, bows and arrows can be made anywhere out of anything, using only human power and simple hand tools.