Circular Microcomputers embedded and powered by repurposed smartphone components

Very nice!

A tax reduction would be fair, in the amount of the effective circularity.

But the price needs to come down - ideally by one order of magnitude.

Certainly an interesting idea. Hopefully usb-c standardization will make it trivial to repurpose old phones as desktop computers. They should support a hub, usb keyboard/mouse and 4k display output. Powered hub should support a variety of external storage easily as well.

(Might someday 'AI robots' be knowledgeable enough to make [whatever] ends meet, and just be thrown bulk e-waste to automatically come up with [whatever useful components] can be salvaged - given a certain stock of parts, incoming?

That'd be circular for sure ...)

That's cute, but you need a huge supply of identical discarded phones to make it go.

The Raspberry Pi is, after all, a repurposed tablet computer.

I like the idea.

But I think they have smoked too much dope.

150€ excl. VAT for the 'dev-kit', which is nothing else than some low to midrange, RPI-like SBC, soldered together from used stuff(no matter how, roboticcally, by hand) is not competitive.

15 to 50 would be.

These are neither circular nor microcomputers.

Also the entire website reads like an 8th grader trying to pad out an essay to hit the page count requirement. Lots of words just taking up space. Also the same level of language mastery, they really need a proofreader.

I love this and I wonder why it hasn't been done sooner considering the demand for RPIs and that your phone's hardware is more powerful.

> Circular

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Disappointed that the microcomputers are not, in fact, circular