Hardware hackers, survey alert!

If you redesign or remake gadgets for your own use, Sunyoung Kim and Eric Paulos want to hear from you.

Do you have any obsolete electronics that you remade or redesigned for difference purpose of use than originally designed? We want to hear about your experience of DIY remaking or redesigning of an obsolete electronics. Please share it with us for us to further research on sustainable design by completing the survey located at the website below:

http://www.wonderment.org/ewaste/ewaste.php

We are researchers at Carnegie Mellon University studying creative reuse of domestic e-waste for sustainability. This study is intended to explore the experience of green activists of how they reuse, redesign, and remanufacture their obsolete electronics for purposes than originally designed.

Pleo photo by Jeff Keyzer

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