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Celebrating/talking about repairing stuff, the right to repair stuff, and the intersection of tech and solarpunk ideals.

What does it mean to use what we have, including technology, to try to build a better, more environmentally just world?

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Sprout Pi Mainboard: I think this is such a cool way to repair and upgrade even very old iPods. (www.crowdsupply.com)
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[–] inari@piefed.zip 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sprout replaces the whole logic board and runs new software, written from scratch to behave like the original.

Sad that it's not Rockbox: https://www.rockbox.org/

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm not sure why you would want this over just installing rockbox on the stock hardware?

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Because it improves over the standard hardware. Bluetooth, WiFi, USB vs. Firewire only in some cases.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

what if your hardware dies

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 4 points 14 hours ago

hoping for the same for the creative zen.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I’ve been blocked from crowdsupply. 😞

But this was cool. https://youtu.be/xwB0ohq2xYk