Hack It Again Into Working Order!
The most recent winners of the 2022 Hackaday Prize are within the Hack It Again class, the place entrants discovered methods to resurrect previous expertise and usually enhance it’s performance as effectively. The initiatives are all relatively distinctive on this class, and as with all the opposite entrants the venture particulars, together with elements and course of, are freely out there for anybody who wish to replicate them.
As an illustration, when you have an previous Nokia 1680 telephone (which clearly nonetheless works) that not has a community to hook up with, why not use that to accommodate some extra fashionable {hardware}? This venture (title change upcoming as a result of Nokia disliking Notkia) provides you a strategy to design a customized PCB with precisely the identical dimensions as the unique PCB of the Nokia telephone, and run Linux on it. You’ll find yourself with a tool that has LoRa+WiFI+BT connectivity, powered by an Ingenic X1000E and safer that virtually any fashionable telephone in the marketplace.
If you wish to be much more obscure, how about Anders Nielsen’s Easy Common Modem which isn’t only a common modem capable of talk by way of any official protocol that existed however may also allow you to entry knowledge from deprecated storage media comparable to tape and even vinyl information.
Test all of them out right here.
