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I usually don't brag about our products, but today I have to. We made a thing and I think it's something special: It's a speaker with repairability in mind. Every product should be made like this. https://www.heise.de/en/news/More-than-repairable-Teufel-presents-an-unusual-speaker-9863978.html 35 comments
  @melle and with schematics, wow! It's been the norm for 100+ years, just people forgot the last 30 years. cf. https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmu_man/2021-10-04_ok_lenovo_we_need_to_talk/ @melle sadly a lot of engineering culture is being like "why make it easy to repair when we can absolutely make it impossible to break?" Little do they know, they actually cannot make the thing impossible to break... and even if they could... that would create other problems (disposal?)  @melle @scy Being Open Source is a big promise to make good on – hope it works out.  @Eris I mean, there are lots of things I can do, but this decision sounds evil to me. "Let us identify you or let us identify you if you want to access our website" @nina_kali_nina oh yeah it's absolutely evil and i am sceptical about how legal it is under EU cookie regulations but lots of German sites do it anyway @melle That is really cool. Is Teufel also redesigning other products like this or is it just a one off? What IP rating does it have? And have they finally stopped their very sexist ad campaigns? @melle I hate buying electronics because I know they will break in a few years and can't be repaired. This device wipes my aversion aside. German version of the artricle: @melle I clicked on the link. Took me to a page that does not comply with GDPR by not offering a simple way to reject all tracking. Alright, this isn’t the brand’s page, so let’s go to Teufel directly instead. Cookies are off by default but you’re trying to trick people into accepting them with a big red button. I just sighed and closed the page. Kudos on the idea, but you just lost a customer who is looking for a new speaker. If I’m already annoyed before I can even look at the product…  @melle Just to be clear: I didn't mean to attribute some weird, hidden intention on your end here (and sorry for hitting that insecurity), but I was somewhat alluding to entities unsuccessfully approaching the fediverse with the goal of promoting products (because they don't make this kind of stuff). I find this very cool, you having shared it is nice (and completely understandable, I'd have done the same!) and it makes me think that I could only hope to get a day job like yours! Kudos!   @melle Love it! Open source circuit diagrams and 3D objects? Awesome! I don't need one and 250€ is not exactly cheap, but I might get one anyway, just because of the cool concept. Please please with sugar on top: MORE OF THIS! EVERYONE should make products like this! *written from my Framework notebook |
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I'm really excited to see what people will do with it and what creative ideas will come to life around this product.
(Nice detail: on the bottom we print short infos about the material used, battery spec and screws sizes)