Hi ServeTheHome,
I am really enjoying your TinyMinyMicro series on all the mini desktops you can get as part of the regular corporate refreshes. What I was interested in was another series dealing with the often similar refreshes you see at schools and colleges that often see quite a lot of low cost computers getting thrown out or sold. These range from many different kinds of Chromebooks (and netbooks) to All in One computers. It seems like a big source of e-waste, and many of these computers are comparable in power to the raspberry pi. What I also thought was interesting was that at my school, most of these computers were stored in small cubbies on a cart, so I was wondering what it would be like to take these old (and likely broken) chromebooks and laptops which are usually all identical if you get them from one source and try to experiment with clustering them by harvesting the boards and putting them into a similar cubby as they used to be stored in. It may not be efficient, but it would be an interesting upcycling project.
I am really enjoying your TinyMinyMicro series on all the mini desktops you can get as part of the regular corporate refreshes. What I was interested in was another series dealing with the often similar refreshes you see at schools and colleges that often see quite a lot of low cost computers getting thrown out or sold. These range from many different kinds of Chromebooks (and netbooks) to All in One computers. It seems like a big source of e-waste, and many of these computers are comparable in power to the raspberry pi. What I also thought was interesting was that at my school, most of these computers were stored in small cubbies on a cart, so I was wondering what it would be like to take these old (and likely broken) chromebooks and laptops which are usually all identical if you get them from one source and try to experiment with clustering them by harvesting the boards and putting them into a similar cubby as they used to be stored in. It may not be efficient, but it would be an interesting upcycling project.