Geek Love

I was very fortunate that at my library, I used to have a tech person that kept everything - and I mean EVERYTHING. She retired almost a year ago now, but we still have all this old equipment taking up space. I'm talking Macs from the 80s. Yeah - that's something we're going to be using again real soon. Anyways - there were a lot of old keyboards, and since a lot of them didn't have the county inventory tags on them, we claimed for youth services.

If you haven't ever had the chance to do any deconstruction, do it. Now. It's very cathartic to rip something apart and keyboards are no exception. Frustrated with the tons of spam you get or the file you just lost? Rip apart a keyboard and you'll feel better.

So, how did I come to make this particular craft? Not to pat myself on the back, but this is an original creation. After seeing (and using) the heart emoticon, I decided I needed to make a valentine that said I {heart} you. (I can't type the actual emoticon here, because I did, and it messed up the html- this is a rewrite of this part of the post.) The green is part of the circuit board, the plastic "paper" is from the inside, and the letters are keys, of course, all ripped from the keyboards. The circuit board came that size, but if you have others that are larger, you should be able to cut them to size with scissors.

The tweens really liked this one, though apparently I don't have the most tech-savvy ones coming because it took them awhile to figure out what the letters said. If you can get your hands on old keyboards or computers, this is a fun one to try. Next time, I'm going to try to make something bigger using bits we ripped from some old CPUs.