Recompute Sustainable, Cardboard PC

[Rob Dizzle]

This machine is similar to a cardboard box and it is with a wary eye works manufacturers in the field of computers respecting the environment, with the next gear. Pout, if one searches for a green machine at all costs, nothing seems able to beat it.

Its designers have both sought to achieve a machine with a very low cost of production but also an impact on the environment is minimal. Recompute PC is also based on the idea that the bike will not serve to a player and it should contain only allowing it to run for office work. So instead of making an object with plastic, aluminum steel, etc.. inventors have opted for recyclable materials, non-toxic, fixed with white glue, and having nevertheless essential to the functioning of a computer. On trouvera and processor, motherboard, memory, hard drive and power supply.

On the other hand, this tour is designed to support older devices, with eight USB ports easily accessible. All its parts are easily removed without tools, of course, and each independently can be recycled. Especially the electronic components which contain toxic heavy metals remind designers.

Therefore install 2 GB of RAM, a 2.5-inch hard drive, card micro ATX, all in a cardboard box, which will be more resistant to heat, as presenting risks to temperatures higher than those where the plastic starts to melt.

[GusFraba]

Some more info From Official Site
Recompute is a new way of thinking about computers that layers sustainable ideas throughout its lifecycle to make an overall sustainable product that can be easily replicated. Recompute address sustainability along three main points during its life.

Manufacturing: Rather than making a large tower constructed from numerous materials (ABS plastic, aluminum, steel, etc.), hundreds of manufacturing processes, and dozens of individual components, the Recompute case is made of corrugated cardboard (recyclable and renewable). There are four low-impact manufacturing processes to assemble Recompute: Die cutting, gluing (with non-toxic white glue), printing and electronic assembly. Recompute uses only three major electronic components: A motherboard with processor & memory, power supply, and a hard drive.

Use: Recompute is designed to allow the user to take advantage of existing hardware. For example; use the keyboard from a previous computer. For additional flexibility, external hardware customization is easy via 8 USB ports.

Disposal: Electronic components need to be properly recycled as they contain toxic heavy metals. However, this is often skipped because dismantling of computers is difficult. Recompute can be disassembled without tools, so the electronics and case can be easily recycled individually.

Oh yes, Recompute is a real working computer.

[WarHammer]

everything depends on the board, but if you achieved a temperature can damage a polymer-based fuels (a "plastic"), it is likely that your board has a problem .. Unless it is handled, and given the glues and resins used in paper, the ecological balance is becoming more questionable

[Uriah]

everything depends on the board, but if you achieved a temperature can damage a polymer-based fuels (a "plastic"), it is likely that your board has a problem .. Unless it is handled, and given the glues and resins used in paper, the ecological balance is becoming more questionable

Yes, but according to the article, the motherboard will melt before the board can ignite spontaneously. Finally this is what I understand from the article.

[WarHammer]

Yes, but according to the article, the motherboard will melt before the board can ignite spontaneously. Finally this is what I understand from the article.

The self-ignition temperature of paper is 232 ° C if I am not mistaken and can therefore be higher for cardboard. So effectively, without direct flame, there is little chance to see the ignition box ..

[Theodore]

And if we stopped producing pc? It would resolve part of the problem. This is a perfect example of green marketing. The board in any case it is treated, cardboard "Untreated, he feared moisture and fire both during storage and use." Treaty to which, I suppose the Vaseline

[Ramsey]

Plastic might burn quicker, but most of the computer cases I've seen are made out of metal. Also, those metal cases help transfer heat out of the case, rather then hold it in. It's unlikely to hold in enough heat for a fire, but it could help to overhead the system in general. Lastly, Cardboard can absorb water from the outside and transfer it into the inside, exposing venerable electronics to a possible short. As everyone knows, an electrical spark is more then hot enough to set off a fire.

[Quimby]

Should explain that there are standards that prohibit radio broadcasts to a heart of your computer in a box without any shielding. On the other hand, yes, it certainly presents a very high risk of fire. This is not a problem of ignition temperature. The problem can occur after an electrical short circuit or a localized heating that can reach several hundred degrees and thus set fire to anything that could burn. Note that if such problems are rare, they can still happen. Personally I have already seen on an integrated circuit card from live and literally explode into pieces incandescent And before I say some questionable comments that it was a brand famous for the quality of its products.