I recently decided to make a useful form out of one of the free computer monitors left in the hallway of the University of Windsor’s Lebel building. The process was very brief and effortless and I would suggest that anyone who has a computer monitor (broken or intended to be discarded) try this out. The average monitor takes on an elegant form and can be painted to suit a specific motif. The heat release vents also work well to drain excess water from the soil.
Although it’s great to recycle used electronics, this particular project wasted about 85% of the monitor’s material. Further brainstorming is needed to make this project more efficient.
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Broken City Lab is an interdisciplinary creative research group, engaging in projects that reimagine and disrupt existing conditions at a variety of levels, in an effort to fix a broken city.
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- darren: i’ll bring some of those round form pans to the cookie bake on sunday. i forget what they call those...
- darren: hi joshua, i just used to use it to send video from one vcr to another tv. but sometimes we would attach it...
- Justin: No problem Josh! Sometimes to fix that stuff you have to switch over to the code view and delete it from...
- Joshua: P.S. Thanks Justin for deleting the unneeded table in my post (if you did). I had a hard time getting rid of...
- Joshua: That little device sounds and looks interesting. What kind of things did you broadcast, Darren? I agree with...
- darren: I’d love to help in any way too with the CJAM thing.
- Justin: I think we need to work out some more audio projects… maybe the CJAM thing could be reworked (or we at...
- darren: you can see a photo of the device i had here:
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