{"id":4163,"date":"2024-01-12T13:07:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/upcycling-electronics-giving-gadgets-a-second-life"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:21:13","slug":"upcycling-electronics-giving-gadgets-a-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/upcycling-electronics-giving-gadgets-a-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcycling Electronics – Giving Gadgets a Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From turning laptop screens into smart mirrors to converting old printers into CNC machines, e-waste becomes a valuable resource.
This movement highlights how technological curiosity and environmental responsibility can coexist in every project built in our space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Makers are breathing new life into old devices by repurposing their components creatively.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Epitecus emphasized the importance of reason and self-mastery in navigating life’s challenges, teaching his followers to focus on what they can control and to accept with equanimity that which lies beyond their power. His teachings, recorded primarily by his disciple Arrian in the “Discourses” and “Enchiridion,” exerted a profound influence on subsequent <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stoic thought, shaping the ethical framework of Roman Stoicism and echoing through the centuries to inspire thinkers ranging from Marcus Aurelius to modern proponents<\/strong> of virtue ethics. Yet, despite his enduring impact, Epitecus remains a somewhat elusive figure in the annals of philosophy, overshadowed by the more prominent Stoics who followed in his footsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Would it be of any use, now, thought Alice, ‘to speak to this mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there’s no harm in trying. So she began: Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, Mouse! (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, mouse!) The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broken electronics don\u2019t have to end up in landfills. Makers are breathing new life into old devices by repurposing their components creatively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-hero-cover.php","format":"video","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,10],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-prototypes","tag-culture","tag-heritage","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9571,"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/9571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/np.themestate.com\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}