Unscrewed

Learn how to make the most of discarded products with this fantastic book from Ed Sobey, legendary tinkerer, educator and inventor extraordinaire.

 

It’s all about repurposing old products and components, and transforming them into new projects. 

An old flatbed scanner can be used to build a desk lamp; a DustBuster impeller can be converted to quickly prep a charcoal grill; and the gears, rollers, and stepper motor found in an ink-jet printer can become a robot. The pump from a motorized bubble gun can be refitted to work as a fountain or a pump to irrigate your indoor plants.

The examples and advice that are condensed into Unscrewed form a product hacker’s real-world ‘choose your own adventure’, and you know you’re in for a wild ride from the very first words of the book’s introduction:

Let’s go on a treasure hunt…

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