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 the phone is connected via wifi to a residential internet connection and runs on its own battery. some of the sensors are working as well, so it's very non-web-server-like. it's made out of scraps that were lying around and are now turned into something new. at the moment it hosts https://links.compost.party which contains some of the links that inspired me. but i'm very open for ideas! if you have something you'd like to run on it, please write me 21 comments
 @computersandblues Awesome. :D It needs over a minute to answer right now, still awesome. :D @computersandblues I love this! Since you mentioned some sensors were working, it'd be neat if you could poll for those sensor readings alongside the battery reading. Even something like orientation could be fun. Load up the site and get something like "The battery is at 94% and the phone is facing North" @computersandblues fighting obsolescence is the way to go! I'm not far enough on my IT journey but I do similar things with household bits and pieces, using what's there and creating something from so called "trash". Taking this attitudes into the digital is just genius π€© Thought for sure this would be a webcam or time lapse of a compost pile in a remote location on your property. Maybe a diy wildlife or cloud/weather monitor. @computersandblues how are you exposing it to the internet? Something like a cloud flare tunnel? I have a couple of devices that I've wanted to re purpose into something like this for a while, thanks for the reminder! @computersandblues that is really impressive and coincidentially just in the right direction of something I've been looking for these past few weeks. Really cool project, keep up the cool work! @computersandblues you could as well try to join the Solar Protocol (http://solarprotocol.net/)
 @computersandblues This is so awesome and I have so many questions: @ben thanks for the kind words! the energy from the sun, at least at the moment, is more than enough. so far it's a mild, cloudy summer in berlin, germany. it's hard to say exactly, but roughly 4 hours of charging can sustain it for 36 hours. and regarding the ip address: there are dyndns update calls in regular intervals, so the domain name will always resolve to the current address. the isp does not change the ip usually, but it does not guarantee a fixed address. @computersandblues This is super cool! I've been working on some ideas for low-power, intermittent-availability hosting software, and this is exactly the kind of hardware I'd love to be able to run on someday. I feel like the era of five-nines "big internet" is poised to inevitably give way to a much more hyperlocal, sustainable approach, and it's always great to find projects that are moving that way.  @computersandblues This is what someone reposted that made me want to find your acc't. I have a long history of dismantling and repurposing electronic equipment. I built a crystal radio when I was 5, and a few years later my dad got me a bunch of old car radios that had been replaced. First I just started scavenging for parts, but it got more interesting.  @computersandblues Do you know the solar-powered @lowtechmagazine ? @da5nsy https://links.compost.party lists some additional influences, maybe you find some of that interesting as well |
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@computersandblues this is awesome! It makes me think I should have one of those solar power panels π€©