OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing

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• dan69@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’m all for things that can extend its life one more time. Honestly if the hardware was capable of performing on various levels, I’d really like to replace my phone. But again I’m torn between getting a dumb phone or just go back pen pals to whom ever I need to write to/back

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• puppinstuff@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is a product that didn’t need to be built. Since it has, I’m at least pleased there are efforts to keep them from being relegated to landfills.

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I feel like there should be a law to release the bits we need to support these efforts.

    Too many times a product will die or a company will fold along with all its documentation.

    Maybe release a final firmware opening up a product. Or at the very least a git repo with api documentation.

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  • JayGray91@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Agreed. At least there are efforts to salvage it.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There should be efforts to ensure it never happens again. All companies who abandon products or services should be forced to open source the code

      Why should greedy narcissists be allowed to waste humanities finite resources on their limp dick get-rich-quick schemes and failures?

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  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Imagine having a thing like that but with a touch screen. Like, a rectangular assistant you can always carry with you! Oh, wait…

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is the question that should’ve been asked before it was built and shipped.

    Now that it has been, though, any effort to keep it out of landfill and find a use for the hardware is good.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But why

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  • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It sounds like they’re trying to do whatever they can to replicate the previous functionality, but without the company who made it getting in the way, the hardware itself is kind of interesting. I hear the battery life sucks and nothing on it is exactly novel, but I’d be interested to see what people could do with it’s fancy display options combined with everything else.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why not?

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why would anyone need to run Doom on medical equipment?

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The only catch? You’ll need an interposer to set up an Ai Pin for use with OpenPin. You can either buy one or make your own.

  Even more junk for landfill, to salvage a device that is inherently quite useless. It’s good to keep the original hardware running but it’s a shame this requires more hardware.

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  • infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The pin runs some android based software as the website mentions adb. It says you will be able to build your own interposer, and they are selling the current official one on Etsy, in a 3d printed case. It doesn’t sound like something made in a factory. I guess it uses some off the shelf usb to jtag chip or similar.

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And just like that i went from being absolutely uninterested since inception into kinda wanting one?

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• r0ertel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For those too lazy to click through to the article and don’t know what an Ai Pin is;

  The Humane Ai Pin is a wearable, internet-connected AI device designed to offer a phone-free way to interact with an AI assistant from anywhere.

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