Found:ling Reusery

01/05/2026

Great to be invited to take part in the discussion on reuse of radios and vintage tech. Vintage bluetooth speakers are still one of our favourite products to produce, let there be more reuse in the world!

Wooden wirelesses, 60s transistors and 80s boomboxes are just some of the obsolete gadgets having fresh life breathed back into them by tech tinkerers. Sam Davies spoke to this up-cycling community to find out why upgrading retro speakers is so important.

27/11/2025

Looking for unique sustainable Christmas gifts? We're off to market this Sunday with a range of our handcrafted Bluetooth Speaker kits and complete ready-to-use Bluetooth Speaker guitars!

27/10/2025

Just in time for Halloween. A new custom bluetooth speaker from our Re-Tuned range. DM us for details,

$480

08/10/2025

"If you think about it: 80% of the environmental impact is decided when designers sit around a table and start to conceptualise. What is this thing? What material will we use? What’s the manufacturing process? All the questions that designers start to ask before we put pen to paper."

From an interview with Dr Brandon Gien about the 2025 World Design Congress.

We think there is a substantial issue with these questions. How about asking "How can we reuse resources/goods/components we already have?

Don't choose materials, choose from existing materials or components. Don't make products recyclable, make them using recycling or reuse. Designing with some future aim of circularity is missing the point. We need to be putting circularity in the production of the product this time, not next time.

Quote source:

Dr. Brandon Gien discusses insights from the 2025 World Design Congress, highlighting the urgent need for planet-focused design and the role of designers in creating sustainable solutions for the future.

28/08/2025

For those who missed it, here is a taste of the presentation we made at the conclusion of RMIT Activator and ACRE - Australian Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship's Circular Economy Regional Growth Accelerator a couple of weeks ago.

17/08/2025

Reuse in all its forms. Making sure book week costume for my son. Salvaged fabric sewn together using thread from my grandfather in a sewing machine from my mother, on a table my grandmother used to work on.

14/08/2025

Over the last 10 or so weeks I have been busy working with 4 wonderful founders of CE businesses to improve the sustainability of our work as part of the GPG Circular Economy Regional Growth Accelerator.

I will share some of my learnings in the coming days and weeks, but for now I would like to thank all who mentored us through the course and all that turned up Tuesday evening in Ballarat to engage with our stories.



Photo by Hunter Callaghan.

13/04/2025

Re-Tuned Bluetooth speaker kits for acoustic guitars are available now! After months of work and many iterations we are now able to offer our Re-Tuned kits that allow you to convert your unplayed acoustic guitar into a beautiful sounding bluetooth speaker.

Check out more detail and purchase one of the first kits available through retuned.au

11/04/2025

A little shakedown test for our Re-Tuned Bluetooth Speakers before they go live Sunday at retuned.au

Recorded on a phone with no special mic or other equipment, in a room with minimal sound dampening, but it gives a feel for what is possible with our kits and your old guitar.

09/04/2025

Our Re-Tuned speaker kits mount securely inside the sound hole of acoustic guitars with 3 clamps.

They feature a high quality speaker at the heart of the sound hole offering clear highs, while the guitar's body acts as an acoustic chamber providing rich warm lows and a full sound.

Only a few days to go until these launch!

07/03/2025

Our Bluetooth Speaker kits to transform old guitars into beautiful bluetooth speakers will be available very soon! We can't wait to share them with you all.