An affordable kit to protect and power small electronics in the case of an EMP. For more information and building instructions check out the blog post Making and testing a trash can Faraday cage.
An inexpensive go-bag cook kit built around the Stanley Adventure pot.
All's quiet on the Canadian front. All border blockades have ended, and CNN reports that the protests may end soon as Ottawa police consider no-go zones. After the Canadian government gave banks the go-ahead to freeze protestors' bank accounts, there was speculation that it could cause a bank run. We haven't seen evidence of that, but Canada's five major banks experienced major outages on Wednesday. Don't read too much into it, but we'll keep our eyes on it. If you're in Canada, let us know i
The recent eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai on the island nation of Tonga was one of the most violent observed in modern times. But the lava was only the beginning of Tonga’s problems — volcanic ash spread throughout the islands, contaminating drinking water and creating a humanitarian crisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHIujMY1nj8 That led a student in the water survival course to ask if you can filter volcanic ash and debris out of drinking water. A thoughtful questio
In the news, we have big happenings on two fronts: Canada and Ukraine. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergency Powers Act, putting Canada into a state of martial law to quell the trucker protest that has been happening for over two weeks. Trudeau stopped short of deploying the military but has empowered banks and financial service providers to freeze accounts without a court order, without fear of legal repercussions. https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/14933444
If you hold cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, your digital money is held in a digital wallet. To keep that wallet private, you unlock it with a seed phrase, which is a long set of passwords in a specific order (think: “apple, car, boat, ball…”). You might hold your coins in a personal decentralized wallet like Metamask. But there’s no “reset password” function when running your own wallet — that’s why you hear stories of people who’ve lost massive amounts of money because they
One of the things we’ve been most excited about in the vehicle prepping market over the last few years is how modern battery technology enabled a new category of personal, portable chargers for jumping a dead battery and other power-hungry vehicle fixes. I’m a big believer in buying high-quality devices that do one thing well — many “survival products” that claim to do lots of various things are usually poor at all of them. Which is why I was skeptical when my wife gave me a Halo Bo