Statement

During the 5 years we have been running the association of experimental electronics we have taken apart hundreds of pieces of consumer electronics from last 50 years. In a way this have been an autopsy for the consumer society.

When you open similar devices from the different decades, there are two distinct things you obviously will notice: things are getting more complicated and quality-wise crappier all the time.

In short term this means that re-using anything broken is getting increasingly difficult all the time, in the long term this means bigger problems. If we continue on this route, we will drown ourselves in the kind of waste we can not possibly use for anything.

The way of life we have today will face several serious threads near future: how long will the oil last and how will the global warming affect us. Digital culture we have today is very vulnerable, and obviously not ecologically sustainable.

Our aim is to show an alternative. We work hard studying how to make use of the kind of stuff other people throw away. We use simple tools and also teach our methods in open workshops. We want to show that working with the trash can be fun and the end-results more interesting than using cutting edge technology.

Our robot-project shows what we believe our future will look like. Simple and sustainable technology, kind of things we will learn to appreciate only after the digital culture can not sustain itself anymore.