So your keyboard just died, or maybe your accounting firm just gave you a shiny new ten key calculator. What do you do with all this old…junk? Well, if you’re Rodrigo Alonso you dump a bunch of it into a square mold, pour resin in, let it harden and sit on it!
This is actually pretty cool, and probably the tech equivalent of the engine block coffee table. It makes all this stuff more usable than it would be sitting in a dark, brown recluse-infested corner of the basement, or being demolished and dumped into landfills at an e-waste “recycler” in the Philippines. Plus, it should give some of us hours of enjoyment trying to decipher just where that “P” key came from or if the keypad off that old HP calculator could have been saved and used in the detonator for one of lilwillie’s explosives.
Head over to Inhabitat to see more, including photos showing how he carefully fills the molds.
[Images © Rodrigo Alonso via Inhabitat]
One man's trash is another man's
treasurefurniture.Has Mrs. SSurfer321 applied her talents to the production of recycled electronics jewelry?
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It doesn't have to be a for-profit thing–just volunteer for an afternoon in a classroom or community center to show people how to use their junk creatively.
No she hasn't but that is an excellent idea!
I don't know how much time she will have for since she just received her 2nd promotion in 18 months. New title may involve some light travel.
Sorry for boasting but I just so damn proud of her!
I really dig this stuff. I'd love a repurposed theme room: engine block coffee tables, a couple of these seats, and the tables from the Milk Bar in the Clockwork Orange movie…
These are really cool. I'm just curious as to the cost of the resin and what was used as a mold.
The guys at humbleablog are all about this kind of stuff.
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That's over 100 MB!
Now if I could figure out how to recycle the explosives and use them again..