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This sounds like a great idea for an open source community. Hack these exercise bikes/street scooters/e-bikes that end up in landfills or in ditches and release
by farisjarrah 7y ago
This sounds like a great idea for an open source community. Hack these exercise bikes/street scooters/e-bikes that end up in landfills or in ditches and release a method of flashing functional firmware to them. Reminds me of the Open Source E-Reader Community
ex:
https://github.com/fread-ink/fread-vagrant https://github.com/fread-ink/fread-vagrant
- smoyer 7y agoMy thoughts exactly but I didn't want to offer anything until I'd: a) Verified that it was possible b) Determined that there were enough people to get the "hack" done. c) Ascertained that there would be no legal ramifications.
- JohnFen 7y agoI think that, worst case, all three of those points can be addressed by simply replacing the existing brains of the machines with your own entirely. Sight unseen, I'm guessing that it could be done with an R-Pi.
- yunruse 7y agoWould it even be legal to attempt to enforce against it? It would quickly be C&D’d if you tried to sell custom firmware for such things, sure, but given the vibrant homebrew scene for many other consumer devices (iOS, Android, various gaming consoles) I’d say it’s absolutely viable, at least legally.
- T3OU-736 7y agoThis also seems reminiscent of the hacking efforts for insulin pumps a-la: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/06/05/diabetics-forgoing-new-tech-hacking-into-insulin-pumps/1256667001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/06/05/diabetics-for...