@_ finally, an affordable supply of pis! *drives to Seattle*

@_ I was always interested in the potential for repurposing the batteries.

@_ now waiting for them to hopefully pull out of Pittsburgh so I can build a cheap cluster 🤣

@_ “Tell me you have only moderate in-house embedded skills without saying it out loud.” [presents an rpi4 as the core element of the “architecture”]
Yeah… Fair game to pick them up and bring them to a better place.

@_ the casing reminds me of an OpenMoko phone (harder to come by these days than a pi)

@_ @lmorchard free pi is best pi.

@_ holy shit, a whole fucking pi 4 for something like this? this is like they were trying to increase the costs to get people to steal them

@_ as someone who has worked in hardware design:
lmao

@_ AND!!!! After you pull the useless brains out and repurpose it for something useful, you can rig up the rest of it to be a scooter!

@_ It's me or it's a pi camera module on the right ?

@_ It looks like there's already a fair bit of custom PCB work in there, wild that they didn't go for a CM4 (Or even a CM3 if supply availability was an issue).

@_ Lmao, I knew these scooter companies were janky, but this still surprised me

@_ seems optimized for short time to market/landfill

@_ @selectric can you grab me one

@_ wait wHAT

@_ OMG, is that where those boards were going?

@_ anything useful in this? (Other than 85 or so used 18650s you could resell for $2 each?)

@_ We've reached the stage of #RaspberryPi shortages we're now scavenging them from the detritus strewn on the streets as a result of tech startup hubris?! Amazing.

@_ modern day foraging

@BorrisInABox @_ Oh no. Lost Pi!

@_ wait are they just leaving the scooters and not reclaiming them? I think they're out of Pittsburgh too.

@_ so thats how the pis are stolen from us.

@_ free pi4 methot? Non patched?

@_ god damn those are worth at least a kidney nowadays

@_ they put a whole IRL streaming rig in these?? Mannnnn

@_ Don't forget about the batteries! You can save that battery for your own scooter or something.

@_ I never realised all those scooters are just free e-waste bins....
Time to spend a night in a city and collect some electronics.

@_@abolish.social omg free computers

@_ thinks I always wanted to do.

- Travel to USA
- Destroy things
- Steal things
- get more raspberries

@_ @vantablack @doubleDensity might be worth a look out for if you want a free Rpi or two 😁

@_
Wow i wish, around here only some limes have 4g mdm that does run linux

@_ You could also rewrite the software on the pi and turn it into your scooter

@_ i have the overwhelming need to rescue them all to live happily ever after in my drawer for a future project i'll never get around to working on

seriously though what an insane amount of e-waste

@_ installing Doom on my bike

@_ so this is where the shortage comes from. Too bad I live in Germany have fun tho.

@_ please dump the sd card if it’s still not wiped 🥺