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Recycle

Published 25 Oct 2020

Recycle


Overview

A page of ideas for electronic recycling projects. This page is broken into two sections, the first half is about project ideas based on recycled components, the second is about which pieces of equipment might provide sources for recyclable components.

Project ideas

3D/2D printers, plotters etc

Flat 2D Plotters

Vinyl Cutter from old printer

Clock

There are endless clock ideas:

  • Hard drive clock This one uses a hard drive, but fitted a standard commercial clock mechanism.
  • I envisage a clock built with the armature acting like a tick mechanism, each time the arm moves back and forth it increments by one second.
  • Another idea is to use armatures as hands - different sized ones from different sized drives.

Robot

Speakers

Stroboscope

Toys

Toys from trash:

Turntable

Scavenging/Recycling Equipment into Useful Components

Camcorders -> Displays

Laptops ->

Laptops -> Touchpads

Laptops -> Webcams

USB wiring
BlackGround
GreenData+
WhiteData -
Red+5V

LCD Screens ->

Motors -> Brushless

PCBs ->

PCs -> Power Supplies

Toothbrush Chargers -> Wireless Chargers

References and Additional Resources