Archives: August 29, 2021

Explore the high-tech revolution’s collateral damage—25 million tons of e-waste and counting, poisoned workers

I came across this video today why researching for a project and thought I should share their work and video as it explains a lot about our waste and overproduction of electronic goods.

The Story of Electronics employs the Story of Stuff style to explore the high-tech revolution’s collateral damage—25 million tons of e-waste and counting, poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill. Annie Leonard takes viewers from the mines and factories where our gadgets begin to the horrific backyard recycling shops in China where many end up. The film concludes with a call for a green ‘race to the top’ where designers compete to make long-lasting, toxic-free products that are fully and easily recyclable. Our production partner on the electronics film is the Electronics TakeBack Coalition, which promotes green design and responsible recycling in the electronics industry.


Building parts computers 3d Printing

With the large stock of recycled parts collected over the last year, I started looking for a cheap way to reuse them and my first idea was to build my case, for I looked at thingiverse.com and found an amazing Open-Frame ATX SFF PC Case by lightofhonor. with a few modifications for mounting hard drives and allowing different power supplies to be used, we now have the base for the test bench computer. This is a work in progress for future modes to come.


Video wall Progress

The recycled video wall has made good progress we have now sorted out all the software and coding to run the wall and will soon have a full working wall for our joint artwork, with the ability to loan it to other art projects. The wall is a modular design so we can add as many monitors as we like for the artwork.