Big Clearout Events

Dear Reclaimfunners

Just to say we are moving towards phase two of the project, Big Clearout days. These will be aim to focus waste management. The concept that we deal with specific products each weekend. In might be bicycles one weekend, tied up with prams and a go-cart weeken the next.

Phase 3 is to form community pods, to allow for further improvments in the wast management. This will allow reclaim fun to be broadened and work shops delivered to assist teachers.

We have now run 15 years of pilot projects and have the expertise and knowledge to manage waste, safely, allowing young people to explore and be given creative oppertunities. The items re-used, repaired or recycled.

If you are interested in workshops on the matter please contact us. The will think we are as mad has George the third, mixing and contaiminating materials, so they cant be used and burying them, total madness, leading to insinerators!

Britains Most Wanted goes Macro

Please not that we have now got steroscopes and dynascopes. This means that we can go even further down the journey of discovery.

We are now looking for smaller items, like old or non-functional watches. We are now going to adapt a stereoscope, with cameras on them.

If yu have inspection equipment, sat doing nothing, or old CCTV equipment dont let it go to waste, ReclaimFun it.

On Britains most wanted, think of the small items as well. Would also like to look at different materials, an broken opal, would be fab, as the material has a 3d quality. As it happens you can make concrete see-through, just put fibre optic strands in it and the light will shine through, this is the next pahes of todays work, brain storming what glass fibre casn be used for.

Britians Most Wanted List

Now you know what it is what do we need? The fuel of the project is small producs that can be taken apart and explored. If you have larger items please inform us, we would not turn down concord, rent the water board field, and break her apart to show young people whats inside the box. We are currently talking to a hospital who has an old scanner. The hall is large enough for this to be taken apart and explored.

We have a high turn over of young people at the centre and hence need loads of box's to break open and explore.

How can you help. Get rid of the clutter, dont take it to the dump, let us digest it and we will then give it to recycle agents, all sorted, Simples!

Items include:

1) desparate for model railway and scaletrics, this is not part of the transforming program, but 'mass in motion'. We need track and vehicles that can be transformed to push different mass systems (pendulums, small mechaical systems).
2) old video cameras, broken digital or out of fashion cameras.
3) metal detectors
4) old alarm systems
5) old cttv security systems (not the VDU monitors please)
6) Old battery powered tools, we are after anything with small motors in them.
7) Old mechanical cameras and cinematic film projectors
8) old record players
9) old clocks and wind up mechanisms
10) Quarts clock movements
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n) Atomic clocks
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Space craft

Neil, fantastic person that he is, has offered 20 year time travel of his work. Please dont miss the oppertunity of experience this and supporting the cultural city Chichester is.

On going need for interesting items.

Please spread the world, before you dispose of unwanted items consider them for the tinker and time academy school project. Please look at what has been achieved, but we need an ongoing source of interesting items.

Anything with a small motor in it
camera
metal detector...

Fuller list and the bottom of the blog.

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Stereo vision in macro

Thanks to G&M tools we now have enough steroscopes to do a tinker school with.