WORKSHOP

Junk to Juice: DIY power generation on the cheap
This workshop is presented in partnership with the Sustainability Office and The Learning Zone at the Ontario College of Art & Design

Registration information  here for the workshop.

Workshop Director: Hackett
Director, The Madagascar Institute
http://madagascarinstitute.com/

Workshop Dates and Times: Day 1 - May 29 (12PM – 5PM, optional soldering tutorial at 10AM). Day 2 – May 30 (12PM -5PM)
Workshop Location: OCAD: The Learning Zone
Street Level (Level 1), Village by the Grange Annex Building at 113 McCaul Street (beside mall entrance at 122 St. Patrick Street)

Summary

Somehow, going “green” has become another vector of marketing, another way to spend money.

This workshop will address that problem by teaching participants to make their own electricity using generators built from trash. The generators will run off simple, non-polluting, sources, such as waste heat and wind. Of course, these small generators will not replace mains power, so they will be dedicated to powering specific, common objects, like a cell phone or iPod.
We will start with a pile of junk, and every participant will leave the class with their own purpose-built genset, and the means and motive to make more.

Biography

Hackett is the Director of the Madagascar Institute, a Brooklyn-based art combine, an artist, metalworker, and the occasional star of Discovery Channel “guys building then destroying stuff” shows. Hackett likes his coffee strong, his physics Newtonian, and is a firm believer in “Build it, then measure it.”. He has not been arrested in over a year.