Suppose you’ve got an old computer around,
just taking up space, and your initial attempts at
finding alternate uses for it have not been successful. But you know perfectly well that, according to this
super scientific pie graph, there must be better recycling ideas out there on the net. Let’s have a look at some of them, shall we?
If you think your
parents' basement cool loft apartment could do with some geeking up, you could make a
toothbrush holder for the bathroom, or a
coffeemaker,
beer keg,
bread box,
pop vending machine, or
sausage slicer for the kitchen. Maybe the living room could use a new
coffee table, or a new
DVR, or a
clock or
two. You might make a
journal or
document folders for your home office. If your home office is more old school than cool, you might like to make a
steampunk keyboard. Perhaps you’d like a
fire pit for the backyard, or a
mailbox for the front of the house. You could use your old tower to grow
wheat grass,
seedlings, or a micro-herb garden. Your pets might like to get into the geek act with a
new cat bed or
hamster cage. If you work in a lab, you might like a
magnetic stirrer to keep cells agitated, or simply a
new way to decide who makes the coffee today.
If you like to express your geekitude sartorially, you can use those old computer parts to make some accessories. You can make an
earring holder,
cufflinks, a
wrist cuff,
necklace, a
ring or four, a
wallet,
clutch, or
handbag.
At the less practical, more decorative end of the computer craft spectrum, you could make
Mac-O-Lanterns for Halloween, a
robot, your own
Wall-E doll, a
horse, an
owl,
Nike shoes, a
cityscape, or
other sculptures. For artistic inspiration, check out Sandy Smith’s
Mauritania Sunset installation,
Alex Andromeda’s sculptures, or the
sandals,
toilet and many other things
Steven Rodig is making over at PCB Creations. More ideas for computer recycling can be found
here.
posted by boo_radley at 4:22 PM on October 22, 2012 [1 favorite]