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I use my old 7 years old iPhone as a pet cam. Set it to auto answer after 3 seconds, and put it somewhere where you can see your pets. Call it over Facetime whe
by mrtksn 3y ago
I use my old 7 years old iPhone as a pet cam. Set it to auto answer after 3 seconds, and put it somewhere where you can see your pets. Call it over Facetime whenever you want to check them out.
iPhones are very long lasting devices, pretty useful even after many years but would have been even better if Apple let you unlock these things. Facetime can autoanswer only on the selfie camera and I would prefer a solution which would do this on the main camera but unfortunately that's not possible under current access level to the device.
It can be more useful to re-purpose those device instead of mining them for metals?
- smallerfish 3y ago> It can be more useful to re-purpose those device instead of mining them for metals? This guy made a 4k projector out of one. Particularly intriguing is that he hardwired power, replacing the battery - doesn't seem _that_ hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfvTjQ9MCwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfvTjQ9MCwY The OS/software side is messiest side for me. Obviously running an old Android that's connected to the internet is potentially a bad idea, but the install of open source backfill replacements isn't great either. I've bricked phones in the past following (fairly complex) instructions carefully, and the need to trust 3rd party binary builds and/or tools isn't fantastic. If Right To Repair can mandate that phones be open enough to easily replace the firmware (sufficiently easy so that, say, your Mom could do it) then maybe reuse of phones becomes a more viable proposition.
- Scoundreller 3y agoPeople used to do that with old school-house overhead projectors and shucked LCD monitors back when vga projectors were $$$.