In this edition of c't uplink, we talk about how to breathe new life into old devices and often find new uses for them. Among other things, we show how you can use your Fire TV Stick with alternative apps, for example to display smart home dashboards. Old mobile phones can also take on new tasks in the basement, garden shed or garage. But we also discuss the limits so that continued operation remains safe.
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If you want to use gadgets, you can build a streaming speaker from a discarded speaker using a Raspberry PI or remove the backlights from old monitors and TVs and use them as flat decorative lighting or for your photo and video studio.
Also present: Sven Hansen, Ulrike Kuhlmann, Jörg Wirtgen
Supervision: Stefan Bortek
Produced by: Ralph Tashki
In the cover story for the upcoming issue c't 16/2024 (in stores July 12) you'll find more suggestions on how to continue using old devices sustainably and building instructions for a streaming amplifier.
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