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Maker & Sustainability Advocate
About Kim Lovett
In 2021, Kim Lovett jury-rigged a solar-powered microgrid from salvaged e-bike batteries and discarded EV inverters to power the Detroit Mobile Makers Lab, a converted school bus that tours underserved neighborhoods teaching low-cost electronics repair. That project sparked the OpenWatt Toolkit, now used by over 140 community workshops across North America to build energy-resilient tools without proprietary firmware or cloud dependencies. Kim doesn’t prototype in sleek labs; they test circuit boards in rain-soaked alleyways, calibrate sensors inside repurposed shipping containers, and insists every schematic include a 'failure mode' diagram, not just how it works, but how it degrades, disassembles, and feeds back into local material loops. Their approach treats sustainability not as an end goal but as a design constraint baked into solder joints, supply chains, and shared ownership models.
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- “How do you adapt solar charging circuits for off-grid textile studios?”
- “What’s the most unexpected material you’ve turned into a functional sensor?”
- “Can you walk me through repairing a broken induction cooktop sustainably?”
- “How do you handle e-waste when prototyping with obsolete microcontrollers?”