One of the neatest contraptions at last year's Bay Area Maker Faire was a supercomputing cluster made from recycled PCs running on a veggie oil-fueled generator (seen here). (Link to the project page.) The makers were our friends from the Berkeley, California-based Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC), a non-profit group that recycles anything that you can plug into a power outlet. The ACCRC will be back at this year's Bay Area Maker Faire, May 19 and 20, where they'll host a creepy fun Silicon Death Valley exhibit and provide old electronic gear for Maker Faire attendees to take apart and put together in interesting new ways. To prepare, the ACCRC and MAKE: is hosting an electronics recycling event this Sunday, April 22, in honor of Earth Day. As the ACCRC slogan goes, "Obsolescence is just a lack of imagination." From the announcement:

Make Magazine and Maker Faire are proud to be involved with ACCRC (Alameda County Computer Resource Center -- accrc.org), which is hosting an electronics recycling event on Earth Day, this Sunday April 22nd from 10 am to 6pm. Drop off any and all household electronics. In addition for this event we're looking for old and abandoned projects, failed inventions, half-finished prototypes, partially assembled kits,etc. (if you have an old-time machine, fusor, lifter, alien organs, old toasters, perpetual motion devices, warbots or blenders, we want them, too.) The materials that are collected will be diverted to Maker Faire (in the Play Day area.) ACCRC is located at 1501 East Shore Highway in Berkeley - Map. No fees are charged for this collection.

ACCRC is a 13-year old award winning electronics recycler. Their primary focus is computers and the charitable placement of F/OSS computers in the hands of those who do not have access. A secondary focus is on finding a re-use for everything else that comes in and they get a lot of stuff.

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