Y'know, it's always nice when you get a grant from the UN to harvest dead satellites while you're trapped on a recently revived space station. It really helps to grab parts with a steel cable net as they pass by, since it kinda ends up counting as free parts for us to use.
In total we reeled in 5 1/2 TV satellites, a GPS unit's transmitter, and a few bits of old telescope models.
All in all, I'd actually have to say that we were pretty successful for the first time, considering how all we did was weld some piping and nets together and stick it on the outside.
Right now, I'm using the combined antennae of everything we hauled in to try and improve our transmission quality back to ground base. Sure, it requires quite a bit of bending and adapting, but it's at least something to do while we're bored.
Food is still meh.