Thomas Thwaites completes "The Toaster Project"

In February I blogged about Thomas Thwaites then in-progress The Toaster Project:

The project is his ongoing quest to built a toaster from scratch... and by scratch I mean actually gathering iron ore and smelting it, collecting oil and processing it into plastic, etc.

It's an absolutely brilliant and humorous way to explore our dependence on cheap, easily available goods. The extremes that Thwaites has gone through (and will go through) brings to light the industry behind the small luxuries that we take for granted.

This morning I saw on Make's blog that Thwaites has completed his toaster and is now making toast. The Toaster Project's website hasn't been updated to show the completed appliance, but it can be seen on the Royal College of Art's Design Interactions Show website.

Love it!