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What should I do with old electronics? (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I got a box full of a bunch of stuff from over the years. Some big, some small, some expensive, some cheap. It seems like a shame to throw it all in a landfill, with or without personal data.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Adding to your list some devices have open source projects that breath new life into them. For example an old kinect for an Xbox 360 can be used for motion tracking on a PC and, if I recall correctly, a webcam.

Another example is the LeapFrog Leapster GS running RetroArch.

A lot of it can be just fun novelty projects to do throughout a weekend