Revolutionary Beehive Invention Delivers Honey on Tap
Apr 20th, 2015 by Aldouspi

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Flow Hive is a revolutionary beehive invention, allowing you to harvest honey without opening the hive and with minimal disturbance to the bees. The ground-breaking project launched on Indiegogo earlier this year with a modest goal of $ 70,000 USD.

The project became a worldwide sensation and Indiegogo’s most successful crowdfunding campaign in history, raising $ 12,204,614 USD, 17,435% beyond their initial goal.

 

 

Honey on Tap from Your Own Beehive

 

 

How it started

 
Flow Hive is the culmination of a decade-long endeavour by Cedar Anderson and his father Stuart Anderson. The family has been keeping bees for generations and Cedar started his first hive when he was just six years old. Anderson explains:
 

“Many years ago….I went down to one of my beehives, which I knew was a pretty wild hive. It was getting on towards evening and a bit of a grey day, not the best time for beekeeping!

 

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So I put on the bee vale my grandma made me and pressed the gaffa tape back on the mesh that covered the holes. Then I put on my glove, (I couldn’t find the second one). I fired up the smoker and blew plenty of smoke into the hive.

 

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When I opened the lid my suspicions were confirmed. The bees weren’t happy about being disturbed. I pulled the sleeve over my gloveless hand, blew some more smoke into the hive and pulled some nice frames of honey out.”

 

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“The hive was packed with bees and it was near impossible to get the honey out without squashing lots of them. I really don’t like squashing bees! The bees became grumpier and started to sting me through my bee suit. They weren’t happy. I put the hive back together, squashing more bees as the lid went on and ended up running away across the field thinking… there has to be a better way! So my Dad and I set to work on a decade long task of inventing the beekeepers dream.”

 

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How it works

 
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TLC still a must

 
While the process of extracting honey becomes simpler and less intrusive, hobbyists and enthusiasts should know that you still have to use your smoker and bee suit and do all the normal and necessary things to keep your bees healthy, e.g., inspecting the brood nest for disease, swarm prevention, mites, beetles, etc. You still need to pull your hive apart to do this and you will still get stung by your bees 🙂

 

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The traditional approach

 
– Protect yourself from stings
– Fire up a smoker to sedate the bees
– Crack the hive open
– Lift heavy boxes
– Pull out the frames, try not to squash bees
– Brush the bees off the combs or use a leaf blower
– Transport the frames to a processing shed
– Cut the wax capping off each frame with a heated knife or automatic uncapping machine
– Put them in an extractor to spin out the honey
– Filter out all the wax and dead bees
– Clean up
– Place frames back in the hive

 

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Employee Uses 8,024 Post-Its to Turn Drab Office Walls Into Giant Superhero Murals
Apr 6th, 2015 by Aldouspi

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After staring at his drab office walls for nearly two years, Ben Brucker had enough. “One day I just got so tired of how sterile and boring our office felt, I thought I should do something about it” Brucker explained to reddit.

Brucker, who works at a creative agency, was not allowed to damage or alter the walls in any way since his company was moving into new offices in the next six months, so whatever he did had to be temporary.

 

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After getting the go-ahead from his boss, Brucker decided to use different colored Post-it notes to create a wall of ‘pixel art’ superheroes. After mocking up the designs in Photoshop, Brucker was ready to spice up the office walls.

 

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“The designs were going to require 8,024 post-its in total. Once I calculated the total I needed of each color (which was kind of a pain), I had to figure out how many of each color pack I needed to order (which was even more of a pain). Some only came in assortment packs with other colors, so I decided on some of the backgrounds based on the most efficient use of the budget (which was about $ 300). There are a lot of leftovers, and some colors from the packs were not used at all. I ended up purchasing about 9,000 post-its.” [source]

 

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Photograph by Ben Brucker

 

“Some wonderful people in my office volunteered to come in over the weekend to install the mural. First thing we did was line the top row of every character panel. Then we used those to measure 2 foot (8 post-its) vertical grids spanning the whole wall.We taped them out to keep the grid as straight as possible, since there were a lot of helpers and the wall was huge. It felt daunting at first. It’s a very slow process, but we powered through.” [source]

 

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“We had people in and out helping all day, so I didn’t get any shots of everyone together 🙁 Though it did get really hot, everyone was really cool about it, and it was a ton of fun to create this thing and see it become a reality. We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback, and people from all over the building have been coming to check it out. A big thanks to everyone involved!” [source]

 

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For more information see the original post on reddit. You can also find the complete album on Imgur and see a timelapse of the entire project on Vimeo (embedded below).

 

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