[discuss] Documenting re-usability of vapes found on the ground

I have been collecting vapes that are left on the street around Berlin for the past year and a half and want to start deconstructing them to reuse the components for things. I was recently talking to Arne about how they all have computers in them as well as batteries and that I have only seen people reuse the batteries so far. Arne discovered that some of them even have ARM CPUs in them. Here is an article about one with a 48MHz Arm Cortex-M0! So I would like to start putting the information I find somewhere and was thinking the permacomputing wiki would be a good place for that, if anyone has any thoughts about the matter I would be happy to hear them.

I led a workshop at this year’s Electronic Faire at the makerspace at the library of Temple University in Philadelphia. The theme of the conference was “Low Tech” and definitely included a lot of folks interested in PMC-related issues.

One of the other workshop was The Vape Synth with David Rios, Kari Love, and Shuang Cai. There’s a video of their presentation online to the Open Hardware Association.

In the workshop I attended they had a variety of collected vapes, mostly Elf bar type. They re-used the circuitry in so far that they