I’m attending Nø School Nevers today through Wednesday, and I’m going to tell these artists, activists and hackers about what we do and about what can be learned from the repair movement.
One of the things I’m interested is from learning from our end-of-life products at events. I know that there are drives, fans, memory, stepper motors and many other salvageable and valuable components in these. But it would be cool to create a salvage/reuse guide — per product category — for use by participants and other who might want to “glean” at events.
Here is data on 2,200+ end-of-life devices in our database.
Being your typical techie squirrel, I tend to keep lots of old PCBs and components like fans and PSUs in my store room “just in case they’re useful”. Aside from cards inside old PCs that can often go into other machines, the most common components I’ve reused over the years have probably been:
Power supplies, especially wall warts
Fans
Capacitors
Connectors
I once also had an artist ask for a load of old boards for an installation they were making!
Thanks @Janet, I did not notice this thread here about reuse - upcycle…
With a friend we were building a spinning thingy out of salvaged stuff and whilst doing so and getting things from the streets we salvaged motors (amongst other things) from hoover, but also old pc tour CD/DVD drives…
The motor I used here is one of those that I had kept, I was looking for a fan in freecycle on Tuesday because I did not want to buy one for a two day summer heatwave … anyway then it occurred to me I could just try and build one for fun…
I used the motor, it was like 11pm, so i went for no soldering little effort solution!
Ingredients:
Some electric tape,
Adhesive dots,
the box is a make up box ,
Then the blades are 10cm long cardboard,
Power supply is from broken Christmas lights: 3 1.5V AA batteries
the post or @ me.
… anyway then it occurred to me I could just try and build one for fun…
