In the North Shore area, electronics that are old may be handled in various ways: you can sell it, you can donate it, or you can return it to manufacturers for recycling.
On the other hand, if you don’t have the time to drop off your old items at North Shore electronics recycling depots or donate them, and you don’t want to sell them either, you can still make use of your old gadgets and turn them to something else through repurposing.
Repurposing an old item means transforming it into something new, that sometimes, that ‘something new’ isn’t what the original manufacturer of the item had in mind when the item was made.
When you repurpose an old electronic item, you get to keep a gadget with sentimental value to you and you can tap on your inner artist at the same time, too.
Using an old webcam as your very own version of a surveillance camera for our porch or garage is one of the ways you can use an old electronic. You can monitor parts of your property that needs supervision without buying security cameras.
If you have an old mp3 player, old mobile phone, old tablet, or old IPad lying around, you can turn them into storage devices to free up some space on the computer you’re currently using.
Old computers can be turned into your home theater – designated for nothing else but movie viewing.
If you have kids or grandkids, you know it’s a risk for your expensive gadget to be held or played with by your active children. Now if you have an old tablet, you can let the toddlers use it.
If you’re someone who’s comfortable and capable of dismantling old gadgets to turn it into something else, you can actually turn old mobile devices to small robotic figures, repurpose old computer monitors to be cat houses, and turn an old Macintosh computer into an aquarium. You can find detailed instructions on how to do these anywhere on the internet.