[hackerspaces] U.S.-China Green Electronics Competition

[Mitch Altman]

If you can come up with a way to fairly easily unsolder parts from old boards, and then do some minimal sorting, that would be way cool. 

Mitch. 

> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:28:47 -0700
> From: charlie at finitemonkeys.com
> To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] U.S.-China Green Electronics Competition
> 
> A lot of the components are glued on as well as soldered. Heat control
> is hard to make sure you don't damage the components that are worth
> recovering. Then there is the issue of identifying them.
> 
> Usually its easier(and cheaper unless you don't count time) to get out
> of date batches from ebay or companies that have very tight rules
> about out of date components.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone thought of this or is this a bad idea?
> > Use an oven or solder pot to desolder all the components from e-waste
> > circuit boards, etc. and sort them accordingly.  Then just evenly distribute
> > them among all the hackerspaces in the world.  This way the electronics lab
> > of all hackerspaces will have a really nice supply of components to pick
> > from with little to no cost to them.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> People I worked and played with in China are having a competition for
> >> people to hack e-waste into something cool.  Winners will receive prizes as
> >> well as the opportunity to showcase their creations on Slate.
> >>
> >> For details, please see the website and the press release is here (and
> >> copied, below):
> >> http://www.greenelectronicschallenge.com/
> >> and
> >> http://www.newamerica.net/node/106312
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Mitch.
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------
> >>
> >> Future Tense Initiative & Tsinghua University Launch New U.S.-China Green
> >> Electronics Competition
> >> Competition to Encourage Innovation on E-Waste Prevention
> >>
> >> Published:   March 26, 2014
> >>
> >>
> >> WASHINGTON, DC -- The Future Tense initiative - a partnership of New
> >> America, Arizona State University, and Slate magazine - is pleased to
> >> announce the launch of Green Electronics: A U.S.-China Maker Challenge, an
> >> unprecedented online DIY competition focused on preventing the creation of
> >> electronic waste (e-waste). The competition, a collaboration between Future
> >> Tense, China's Tsinghua University and other partners, invites U.S. and
> >> Chinese makers to find creative ways to turn yesterday's cellphone battery
> >> into tomorrow's treasure.
> >>
> >> "This is a great opportunity for the United States and China to work
> >> toward common goals," said Emily Parker, senior fellow and digital diplomacy
> >> advisor at New America, who helped spearhead this project. "Both the U.S.
> >> and China want to encourage the innovation happening at the DIY or maker
> >> level, and both countries face the challenge of reducing e-waste."
> >>
> >> Electronic products tend to become unusable after just a few years, and
> >> items such as computers, DVD players and cell phones frequently wind up in
> >> landfills. Some of the most creative solutions to this problem may come from
> >> U.S. and Chinese makers, many of whom already incorporate old electronic
> >> components into their DIY creations. Green electronics will encourage makers
> >> to showcase their creations online.
> >>
> >> Participants will be invited to upcycle or hack an electronic product to
> >> create a new electronic product; repair an electronic product; create a
> >> sustainable electronic product; or create artwork from used electronic
> >> products. They will show their inventions on Instructables.com, where
> >> submissions will be accepted from April 7 - May 31, 2014. Following a round
> >> of public voting, a panel of judges will choose the best selections from
> >> each country. Winners will receive prizes as well as the opportunity to
> >> showcase their creations on Slate.
> >>
> >> Judges include Chris Anderson, former Wired editor; Joi Ito, Director of
> >> the MIT Media Lab; Mitzi Montoya, Vice President and University Dean for
> >> Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Arizona State University; and Sun Hong Bin,
> >> Dean of Educational Affairs at Tsinghua University. Partners include
> >> Instructables, TechShop, Hackerspaces.org, XinCheJian, Autodesk, and
> >> Inventables.
> >>
> >> For more information, please visit:
> >> http://www.greenelectronicschallenge.com/
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