Emily VelascoI want to teach a class on repurposing electronics. We could start out just taking some broken things apart and seeing if we can fix them, but every student would have to pick something to repurpose or revive as a semester-long project. Maybe they want to turn an old propane lantern into an LED lantern, convert a cordless drill with dead nicad batteries to lithium, or jailbreak an e-bike. Everyone should leave the class with a device or appliance with a new lease on life. A community college should hire me for this
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@MLE_online Excellent idea. When I was a teenager in 4-H, I joined a section on Tractor Maintenance. The instructor, owner of a local Massey Ferguson dealership, gave each of us a discarded one-cylinder utility engine to fix. The story goes downhill from there—the shop owner was in fact a shit teacher, and we were lost, my dad recruited a neighborhood mechanic to help with mine, and I was the only kid to return a working motor. But I learned a lot from old Darrel!