Like the pioneers: a day in the life with sustainable, low-tech/no-tech solutions.

You may have mastered Arduino and 3D printing, but what will you make when the power goes out? This book, featuring projects drawn from previous issues of Make: and Craft:, features projects you can build with little or no technology. Whether it's making your own cider or starting a fire with a bow drill, the projects in this book will let you keep making even when you're away from civilization. Whether you're on a camping trip or fortifying the last human settlement against hordes of zombies, you'll find something in this book that will keep you happy, engaged, and most important of all... alive! Projects include:

• Making fire with a bow drill
• Old-school bookbinding
• Kitchen table cider making
• Hogwash bacon soap
• Da Vinci reciprocating mechanism
• The Rok-Bak chair
• Olive oil lamp