Why This Matters
This tutorial highlights innovative efforts in the tech industry to develop ethical, sustainable, and community-driven hardware solutions. By repurposing electronic components and exploring eco-friendly materials, it emphasizes responsible manufacturing practices that benefit both the environment and society, inspiring future hardware development towards sustainability and social consciousness.
Key Takeaways
- Focus on using recycled and urban mined materials for PCB manufacturing.
- Encourages community-driven, feminist hacking as a creative approach to hardware design.
- Promotes repurposing existing electronic components to reduce waste and extend device lifecycles.
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It is an open secret that the hardware in our smart devices contains not only plastics but also conflict minerals such as tungsten, tin, tantalum, silver and gold.
We are investigating alternative hardware from locally sourced materials, so-called ethical hardware, to develop and speculate upon renewable practices for the benefit of both nature and humans.
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