[Swansea Hackspace] Hackspace Digest, Vol 11, Issue 9 - Old Laptops

[Jennifer Ada]

Bonjour Roger :>


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I know that Mike-o-soft do something similar if not the same.

https://plus.google.com/116734004574926933341/


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If we had the time between us, we could always do something like this as a
social business:

http://recyclesouthwales.wordpress.com/

They take in bikes as donations.

Fix them with the help of volunteers who can't afford a bike.

The voluntary work acts as credit towards one of the bikes.


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We could run a repairs workshop for the local community where people bring
in a broken object and can use our facilities to fix it and someone can be
on hand to help them.

http://www.theguardian.com/social-enterprise-network/2012/jan/18/guardian-social-enterprise-award-winner

Then people wouldn't need to buy a replacement object.


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I want to look at origami and printed electronics.

I think a foldable device with an analouge interface would be quite sweet.

It could be especially useful for devices that adhere to the single
responsibility principle weherein each device does one job.

I haven't looked at standards and protocols but a nice extension would be
to network them, most probably as slaves to a master device (I.e. a tablet
or smartphone) so that it would be possible to interact with it using a
digital interface.


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Au revoir.

Jen


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> Hi all
> Cheap laptops,
> I will see whats in the cupboard as I used to go to the recycle site and
> get laptops and printers that people had dumped.
>
> I would take the printers aparts for the stepper motors small parts etc.
>
> You can often get a complate undamaged laptop,  with an xp or win7
> licence plate for the price of a couple of beers.
> Reformat and install windows or your favourite flavour of linux.
>
> I thought of starting a little busines but find I am busy enough with
> web developement and writing php applications.
> Surprised there isn't someone doing this in Swansea.
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> roger
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 Jen Ada
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