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Citronics, meet the world’s first Circular Microcomputers (citronics.eu)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is a cool project, but you can get an old phone somewhat supported by pmos or termux+termux api a lot cheaper and they more or less can do half of what you want from these things. 😄 Anyway I hope they succeed with this project!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I’m not familiar with this, but it makes sense. A phone should have everything one needs for small projects already built in. I get the OP product though, there is a reason people have gotten so into SBCs, even when they’re not always the ideal option. There’s a convenience factor with having all the ports there.

As long as these OSes let you boot the device without a lithium battery connected, I suppose using the phones as-is as microservers on USB DC power is a very sensible way to EOL phones (and to actually make sure the hardware is reused). Bonus SMS/mobile data, if you live somewhere where it’s cheap enough to use that for anything that’s not your phone in your pocket.

All I’ve known since the Symbian era ended is iPhones, so this is unfamiliar territory for me. Interesting stuff.

This kind of thing is what technology should be all about.