62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer: (And Other Discarded Electronics)
- ISBN13: 9780761152439
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Computer hacking takes on a whole new meaning when you’re going at it with a screwdriver and hammer: announcing the most wildly inventive, eco-friendly craft book on repurposing everyday objects since Generation T. Except in this case the raw material isn’t a T-shirt, but the stuff we all have lying around and have no idea what to do with, or even how to get rid of properly—your old cell phone, a broken printer, irredeemable iPod, busted digital camera, mysterious thatches of cables and wires, orphaned keyboards, and of course, those dead PCs and laptops.
Created by a Parsons design graduate who’s obsessed with navigating the intersection of art and technology, here are 62 ingenious projects that ar… More >>
62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer: (And Other Discarded Electronics)
This book was super useful and has a lot or projects that I want to try. Anyone with old electronics cannot live without this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
After being told for many years “what are you going to do all that stuff” I found an answer in this book. I have been in electronics since 1970 in high school and have “collected more than my share of items “needed to be fixed”. This book makes a step towards the answers. Many of the “projects” are silly, but I guess that is the point. IT CAN ALWAYS BE USED. Turns out it is a great coffee table book for the geek in me.
Rating: 4 / 5
The first few pages contain information useful for a “new to electronics” person–things like resistor color code and what to do with capacitors.
While there is a temptation to consider this a manual for electronic scavengers, I think it works on a couple of deeper levels.
First, it opens the door to electronics as an art form; you can take old parts and create something that doesn’t use electricity at all. You can make things that are useful or just interesting. All things don’t have to have a practical function–or be beautiful. Conversation pieces are good for–conversation– (something we may have to work harder at as face to face communication is replaced by electronic gizmos).
Second, this book makes us think about all the good stuff that we throw away just because it gets erratic or outmoded.
To sum it up, this is a good book for the artist, for the electronic beginner or the person concerned about trashing things rather than finding a new purpose.
Rating: 5 / 5
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