Moving house is 1/3 furniture-based crossfit, 1/3 gazing wistfully at books (either the unread or the too long since-read) and (for me), 1/3 unearthing hardware I had apparently forgotten about. It's like laughing at technology from still-recent movies, but for items in my house.
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Apparently, amongst dev boards and components I still posses a Coin as well as a Google Glass (!) why do I have one of those? A quick story.. about 4 years ago now, a friend and I bought a pair and opened it up, to publish the first internals teardown http://catwig.com/google-glass-teardown …
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This is obviously a non-recoverable state for a piece of hardware (I mean, the electronics still "worked" in the sense that you could power them on and observe them operating, but not really in any practical way beyond that)pic.twitter.com/Z08p0egJUm
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Some half a year or so after doing the teardown, Google did a recall-and-replace on Glass hardware. I didn't figure they'd send a replacement, but after getting a "send whatever you have" I dropped the parts in a box and shipped it away. Soon after.. a new pair arrived.
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I have never used them, I do still have them. The prism coating has crazed somewhat, so I'm not sure if they're still all that functionally useful. But I'm open to ideas about what to do with these (now) historical artifacts.
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(The Coin kind of just got included in this tale by proximity. The only connection here is that I'm not sure what to do with it, but am open to ideas.)
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I’ve just been dumping this stuff in a box and leaving it in storage.
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Personally I can't imagine paying a subscription to the existence of these items, but I am sure it will be fun to open the time-capsule down the line..
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Yeah, the subscription is more for other stuff which is still occasionally useful and would be time consuming to replace (mostly mountaineering gear). Electronics get a free ride.
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