Due to historical engineering decisions made many decades ago, a great many irrigation systems rely on solenoid valves that ...

Keeping a cool head is difficult at the best of times, least of all when it’s summer and merely thinking of touching bare ...

Thanks to persistently dry weather, the Southwest Florida Water Management District will limit residents to one-day-per-week watering restrictions starting in February. The district governing board ...

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Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

Homeowners can either perform a quick drain for temporary freezes or a full blowout for the season. You can hire a professional to blow out your system or do it yourself with the proper equipment.

Home security systems—once the exclusive domain of high-priced professional installers—have never been more affordable, and the hardware and software is simpler, more intuitive, and easier to set up ...

Newly planted container-grown trees need daily watering for several weeks, then twice weekly through the first summer and fall, and weekly for the following two summers. Ball and burlap trees require ...

One method to develop a greener thumb: Knowing when to water your plants. The general rule for watering plants, or your lawn and garden, is to water them once a week. However, your flowers and other ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Summer is nearly here, and ...