I connected a charger directly to battery terminals of a smartphone whose battery failed, over Schottky diodes to reduce the voltage properly.

Now I have a phone which always shows 90%-100% battery.

I ran Tesseract OCR on its 4x64-bit ARM CPU over Termux and ssh and it adds another 50% computational power to my PC when I needed to OCR many pages of documents.

The power Schottkies were upcycled from dead power supplies, the cable from a broken power cord, the USB-A connector from a failed charging cable, I don't remember what the resistor and PCB comes from.

#upcycling #recycling #reuse #frugal #frugalcomputing #frugality #righttorepair #repair #DIY #homemade #powersupply #charger #charging #smartphone #arm64 #tesseract #64bit

Salut Masto,

J'ai ouvert un portail, un portail de fées qui veulent chacune leur propre armure! Elles l'auront toutes un jour! Promis!

Après la Fée des Courageuses, voici la Fée de la Paix: elle remet dans le corps des humains qui l'ont perdu, un coeur rempli d'amour et de compassion.

Très difficile prendre une photo de cette petite avec tous les reflets et les interstices.... 😅

~75% rebut
Bonne fds!

#art #sculpture #acier #upcycling #scrap_metal #fee #fairy #welding #soudure #peace #paix