Forgive another phone top-post, please, but -- I have an ASUS EeePC 1005HA that, if someone else had one, I could help with reverse engineering. I will commit to getting the keyboard layout and the LCD datasheet (with the one caveat that the LCD datasheet must be freely available, i.e. not exclusively behind a paywall). I will NOT help with the battery or display cable, though.
I realize that this has few environmental advantages over just binning the thing -- but you gotta get your feet wet somhow, and this looks to me like a great way to do that. If you'll excuse me, I have a copier power socket to glue back together now. See, my stepmother has a commercial-grade Koyocera (no, really, she does), and it apparently shook hands with a wall, cords and everything... this is what happens when you're the nerd in the family... ;) On Jan 22, 2018 8:35 PM, "Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton" <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:26 AM, zap <calmst...@posteo.de> wrote: > > >> in other words: when you add up the amount of time and effort > >> proposed to be spent, and convert it to an actual dollar amount, i > >> estimate that it would come to an amount that would EASILY fund the > >> development of an entirely new type of computer. > >> > >> one that can be designed to be repaired, upgraded, respect software > >> freedom and not end up in landfill. > >> > >> ... .yeh? > > You are correct, and I wish I had realized this a lot sooner. My bad... > > yyehh i've been down this evaluation path a number of times now on > this list, with different groups of people at different times. it... > kinda puts a dampener on peoples' enthusiasm for doing home-grown > "hackaday" style projects... but... hackaday projects are for people > to learn (and teach other people) electronics. this project is > *specifically* about reducing *world-wide* e-waste on a *massive* > scale by making desirable long-term upgradeable computing appliances, > thus keeping stuff out of landfill as long as possible... and that > *has* to be done not by disassembling pre-existing deeply flawed > "Designed for Obsolescence and Manufacture" products but by going > *right* back to the very source of the problem. > > totally different approach that's really hard for some people to > understand or accept, the scale is about a hundred thousand times > larger than they're able to get their minds around. > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk