[Discuss] discuss Digest, Vol 10, Issue 38

[malcolm stanley]

*The day's not too far away when you melt down the case of your old gameBoy
to feed your 3D printer, for example.  But that's not an OSHWA problem. Yet.
*

If not now, when?

its interesting to me that (re)-cyclical manufacturing of the type that you
note implies access to the designs we are discussing, parts of which will
be re-usable on a component basis and parts of which will be re-usable on a
materials basis.

begs the interesting question of when and whether we come to grips with
deconstruction and tear down instructions for re-use. In Europe I think now
for some products this is a requirement...


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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Tom Igoe <tom.igoe at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Chris Church wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mar 10, 2013, at 8:59 PM, Tom Igoe wrote:
> >
> >> Great idea, but I wasn't actually imagining icons  on the board itself,
> but on the website or packaging, more like a nutrition label. I think the
> two could work well together.
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> > That is pretty awesome.  If you don't mind, we may follow this cue on
> our next products coming out here in a month or so.  I like that way better
> than symbols that have to be looked up. (And it would look great on a
> certain style of company's packaging, like ours.)
>
> Sure thing, I can put the SVG up somewhere in a CC-BY-SA if you want.
>
> >
> > For recycling, don't we already have guidelines?  I already have to
> print certain symbols on our batteries and electronics, I don't imagine it
> would require much more than that?
>
> We have icons, but that's for consumers. I'd like to see us take it
> further, to where we're really talking about all the components.  The day's
> not too far away when you melt down the case of your old gameBoy to feed
> your 3D printer, for example.  But that's not an OSHWA problem. Yet.
>
>
> t.
>
> >
> > Chris
> >
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