Arduino Duemilanove

After some serious thought about my final project for If Products… I’ve decided to drop the modern heirlooms project. It’s just not well-defined enough to be successful during the short time span between now and the end of the semester. Instead, I’ll be performing a Life Cycle Assessment of the Arduino Duemilanove. From there, I’ll either compare it’s impact to other Arduino hardware or examine other materials from the basic kit we use for Introduction to Physical Computing. My hope is that by doing this research I’ll be able to identify where we have the greatest environmental impact while learning to prototype and, hopefully, where we might make some improvements. I’m using the Alpha version of Sustainable Minds, and so far it’s going really well. I’m looking forward to seeing what I learn. Right now I’m struggling with figuring out the hours of use for the Arduino; rather than applying the actual lifespan of the board I’m trying to gauge hours of use by an average ITP student.