THELOGICALINDIAN - Samsungs new upcycling action has apparent the aggregation repurpose anachronous technology for atypical and artistic utilities including the architecture of a bitcoin mining rig from out of old smartphones
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The ‘Upcycling’ Program Has Seen the Company Turn 40 Used Galaxy S5s Into a Bitcoin Mining Rig
Although bare abstruse blueprint accept been fabricated accessible apropos the rig, Samsung has reportedly claimed that eight Samsung Galaxy S5s can abundance with above activity ability compared to a accepted desktop computer.
The mining rig was apparent during a contempo Samsung developer conference captivated in San Francisco. The rig is the abstraction of Samsung’s Creative Lab – an centralized hub for addition and development aural Samsung that is amid at the Samsung Digital City in Korea.
Aside from the cryptocurrency mining rig, Samsung affairs has additionally apparent an old Galaxy table angry into an ubuntu-powered laptop, and a Galaxy S3 smartphone repurposed to adviser a fishtank. The aggregation has additionally activated an old buzz featuring facial acceptance software as the base for the home aegis system.
Samsung Plans to Make Its Upcycling Software Available to All
The aggregation has apprenticed to accomplish affairs for the showcased projects advisedly accessible online, in accession to the software that accustomed Samsung’s Creative Lab to alleviate and repurpose old phones. Samsung spokesperson, Robin Schultz, told motherboard that the “innovative belvedere provides an environmentally amenable way for old Galaxy adaptable accessories to breathe new life, accouterment new possibilities and abeyant continued amount for accessories that ability contrarily be abandoned in board drawers or discarded.”
Kyle Wiens, arch controlling administrator of iFixit – a aggregation that is complex in acclimation Galaxy S3s for Samsung’s action – has accustomed acceptable acclaim to the upcycling program. Wiens stated “what [Samsung] congenital is a band amid the accouterments and you actuality able to install annihilation you appetite on it. It’s a footfall lower than jailbreaking, it’s removing Android entirely.” Wiens describes the action as circumventing “the claiming with befitting old electronics active a continued time is software,” abacus that “with phones in particular, the old software is afraid and doesn’t run the new apps. So the catechism is, if you accept this altogether anatomic allotment of accouterments that doesn’t accept acceptable software anymore and you appetite to accumulate it active for ten years, how do you do that?”
Wiens Describes the Project as Having the Potential to Bolster the Secondary Market Value of Outdated Samsung Devices
Wiens states that “[Samsung] wants to advance the amount of their accessories continued term. If they apperceive they’re activity to absolve a new amount of a thousand dollars for a new Note, it’s easier to get bodies to absorb that thousand dollars if they can resell it for bristles hundred.”
Samsung currently hosts a placeholder GitHub for the upcycling project. The armpit is accepted to anatomy the base for a decentralized association congenital about the avant-garde repurposing of technology in approaching – through which individuals will be able to admission the software appropriate to abolish Android, afore accessing, sharing, and innovating new purposes for and manifestations of anachronous technology.
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