But if I want repair guidance for any ARM-based portable device my only options are personal experience, search engines or iFixit. If I need repair guidance for a car or an appliance I can usually buy or download the complete factory repair manual, and parts allowing I can keep it running for many years to come. Personally I don’t enjoy having to reverse engineer every gadget that goes obsolete in order to keep using it. And fixing devices is usually cost comparable or worse than simply buying new again, so many consumers continue buying new and repair shops struggle to stay afloat. They weren’t built with long term usage in mind, and it’s usually a lot of pain and compromises needed to get EOL kit back into a usable state. I really would prefer if recycling centers started paying consumers for old electronics. Posted in Android Hacks, Repair Hacks, Tablet Hacks Tagged android tablet, e-reader, ebookreader, Nook, soft touch Post navigation We’ve been getting quite a few projects like these in our last Hackaday Prize installment, Hack It Back, and we hope to see more such rebuilds for our Wildcard round! Got a Nook Simple Touch in a drawer? Now you know you can easily convert it into a hackable E-ink display! We’ve seen numerous tablet restorations before, replacing charger ICs and eMMC drives, turning them into videophones to chat with our relatives and smart home controllers, and there’s even repair databases to help you in your revival efforts. Following best hacker traditions, both the app and the server are open-sourced! With help of a 3D printed stand, this tablet now displays train departure schedules – perfect application for an old e-reader like this. There’s still a small Python-written webserver running on a spare Pi, conditioning the data for the app to fetch. The Android install is old, and Android Studio for it is no longer downloadable, so he used an older development toolkit somehow still available online. Not to be stopped, wrote an app for the Nook’s Android install instead rooting was required but went seamlessly. Usually, you could just put a webserver on your local network and serve a page with useful information, adding code to refresh the page periodically – but the Nook’s browser didn’t support automatic refreshes. Mind you, this might not be advised, as Lithium-Ion battery range is from 3 volts to 4.2 volts and a regulator would be called for, but says it’s been working just fine. The tablet’s charging circuitry turned out to be unsophisticated – the tablet wouldn’t boot from MicroUSB input, and wired up 5 volts from a USB cable straight into the battery input. The soft touch layer on the back didn’t go away with help of alcohol, but by sheer luck, an acetone bottle was nearby, and an acetone scrub helped get rid of the unpleasant stickiness. Both of these are likely to happen for a lot of tablets, which is why we’re happy has shared his story about this e-reader’s revival. Sadly, the soft touch covering on the back disintegrated into a sticky mess, as soft touch does, the LiIon battery has gone flat, and the software support’s lackluster. found a Nook Simple Touch in his drawer – with its E-ink screen, wireless connectivity and a workable Android version, this e-reader from 2011 has the guts for always-on display duty. In our drawers, there’s gonna be quite a few old devices that we’ve forgotten about, and perhaps we ought to make them work for us instead.
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