Collaborate Disseminate
The bulbs inside scanners (before transitioning to LED, anyway) were cold cathode fluorescent tubes that emit a fairly wide bandwidth of light. They were purpose-built to produce a very specific …read more Continue reading CCFL Scanner Bulb Makes a Cool Desk Lamp
Every year, as consumers gobble up the latest Android devices, more old, but perfectly serviceable, units end up collecting dust in drawers. Or worse, they end up getting tossed in …read more Continue reading postmarketOS Now Boots on Over 250 Devices
When looking at the specifications of smartphones that have been released over the past years, it’s remarkable to see how aspects like CPU cores, clockspeeds and GPU performance have improved …read more Continue reading Repurposing Old Smartphones: When Reusing Makes More Sense Than Recycling
When [Stephen Cass] found himself with a broken Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 portable computer, the simplest solution was to buy another broken one and make one working computer from two …read more Continue reading TRS-80 Model 100 Gets Arduino Heart Transplant
Although plant-based polylactic acid (PLA) bioplastic is acclaimed for its biodegradability, it can take quite a long time to degrade if the conditions aren’t quite right. Bearing this fact in mind, Washington State University scientists have devised a… Continue reading New process converts old PLA plastic into a better 3D-printing resin
We love upcycling around these parts — taking what would be a pile of rusty scrap and turning it into something useful — and this project from YouTuber [Hands on …read more Continue reading Making a Pipe Crimper From Scrap
The idea of upcycling plastic waste into even more valuable products is a meritorious one, but some forms of the material lend themselves to this process better than others. Polystyrene lays at the more problematic end of the spectrum, but a team of Vi… Continue reading UV upcycling treatment could help polystyrene recyclers break even
As digital music files become increasingly popular, compact discs are likewise becoming obsolete. There may still be a use for some existing CDs, however, as the gold foil in them could be used in the production of wearable biosensors.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Old CDs could be upcycled into new wearable biosensors
There are some situations in which extra office space is temporarily required, but a full-scale move into a larger building would be overkill. That’s where the ootbox comes in, as it’s a rentable portable office made out of an upcycled shipping contain… Continue reading Self-contained ootbox portable office is made from a shipping container
[Willem Koopman aka Secretbatcave] was looking at a master clock he has in his collection which was quite a noisy device, but wanted to use the matching solenoid slave clock …read more Continue reading A Tuning Fork Clock, With Discreet Logic