This pocket-sized PC is made from an old smartphone motherboard

You often hear that the phone in your pocket has more processing power than the room-sized computers that NASA used to help send astronauts to the moon. But modern smartphones also have relatively limited lifespans – while some device makers are doing a better job of offering long-term support, it’s often cheaper or easier to replace an old phone than it is to fix a cracked display or replace […]

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The ear piece on my #fairphone broke the other day. Three days layer the replacement part arrived, and using nothing but an old bank card for a spudger and a single screwdriver I was able to disassemble parts of the phone, replace the earpiece and reassemble it all. This is genius!

Also found out about #Citronics which creates single board computers using recirculated phone parts (has a deal with Fairphone company) which is a very cool bit of #upcycling if you ask me. :D

Nice initiative : discovered thanks to Fairphone and founded in 2021, the small Belgian company #Citronics offers "microcomputers" (in fact nanocomputers) designed from smartphone motherboards … and there is stock !

› https://citronics.eu