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Repurposing Consumer Hardware: New uses for small form-factor, low-power machines

Published: 01 March 2007 Publication History

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These days you have to be more and more creative when tackling home technology projects because the inventory of raw material is changing so rapidly. Market and product cycles continue to shrink, standard form factors are being discarded to drive down costs, and pricing is becoming more dependent on market value and less on direct manufacturing cost. As a result, standard modular building blocks are disappearing. New alternative uses for obsolete or low-price products are emerging, however. I enjoy finding ways to extract new value from new or used hardware platforms, so I think it’s still a good time to be a technology hobbyist.

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    Queue  Volume 5, Issue 2
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    March 2007
    53 pages
    ISSN:1542-7730
    EISSN:1542-7749
    DOI:10.1145/1229899
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    Published: 01 March 2007
    Published in QUEUE Volume 5, Issue 2

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