While cleaning, I found an old Redmi 12 phone that’s still in perfect condition. Anyone know what fun things I could do with it? Thinking about experimenting software wise, repurposing it for other things etc. Any ideas?
Buy yourself some nice in-ear monitors and set up a DAP (digital audio player) for yourself. I’m not sure there’s a community on Lemmy, but there is /r/DigitalAudioPlayer that set me up. Fuck Spotify and their algorithms. Own your music.
I was leaning towards this option. Any music apps you’d recommend? Got a Bandcamp catalog that could get a nice and worthy place now
PowerAmp is popular, but there are a lot out there.
One of the things I’m planning to setup on an old pixel 3a is a hotspot with a web page basically containing some YouTube channel videos. I travel and figure someone will be bored when there is no internet access and can watch some SCUBA diving videos maybe I will get some subscribers when they are connected again.
I also use old phones and tablets as wall mounted HomeAssistant controllers.
Install something like Fotoo with Syncthing and you have a picture frame that you can have display your favorite memories. Or if you are traveling you can have new pictures upload when charging via Syncthing and someone at home can see the sights while you travel. If you setup a mount and install it on a window with an app that takes pictures on a schedule you can build a time-lapse camera and let it run forever.
Give it to a younger child as a learning tool with different learning apps. Donate it to a school somewhere with less access to technology. I donated an old laptop to a dive shop in Belize with Linux and Kiwix installed along with a copy of Wikipedia and a bunch of other learning information as well as a Python environment and the manual pages and a Rust environment with is manual pages.
Install a camera app that basically turns it into an IP camera and integrate it into your security system (great for apartments) or to monitor a pet or loved one. Or steam the video of your view from your home or work window. Add a battery bank, solar panel and waterproof everything and you have a remote camera you can put anywhere wifi works.
I use mine as an always on syncthing node. After people on here told me last time that i was inviting death, i put it into a ceramic plant pot with a lid and set it on the balcony with a long charging cable. Its still in reach of my wifi so it works perfectly fine. If it burns, it burns outside with nothing flammable near it :)
If you instead connect it to a portable solar charger + powerbank, you could even remove the grid connection and just put it in a sealed plastic box outside.
I use one as a camera monitor for my kids’ baby monitors.
A more general idea would be setting up a weather/forecast display.
