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@Jilano can't touch this 😛
.. well I still need it. Also I've found from a wee peek inside that the battery is an 18650 and spot-welded on the PCB, so probably not really replaceable without doing my little spot welder project first 😔
Perhaps I'll just replace the unit with something else and then make for some Hammer Time 😎 perhaps any particular razors you'd recommend as a replacement? -
Man, its time for open domestic electronics.
all the object in our homes are made of plastic, some easy pcb here and there, a bit of rubber for water proof parts, and a fucking atmega328p.
3d printers are quite ready for this.
I am not saying that one MUST produce everything, I am talking about having the ability to.
cheap electrodomestic, then expensive ones. in my dream the final target is the car.
"why should someone develop a product and then give the project away for free? This cannot work, how can he earn?" people say
I don't know, but... Why should I buy something closed, if not only because I have no open alternatives? -
@mngr That's an amazing idea actually! I guess that that might very well be what buying electronics will be in the future, just like where our ancestors had to buy books, nowadays it's just as easy to get a PDF and print it out.
Commercializing the products isn't a worry of mine though, because even though digital files can be pirated far more easily than hardware can, companies can sell their designs. With that said, considering that 3D printers only do enclosures and other types of plastics currently, would manufacturers only provide designs? I mean, most average Joes don't have soldering equipment, a component stock and skills to build their own circuits. Could electronics manufacturers sell their electronics caseless, and make their money off of that? -
The key point is that the project and the object must be treated differently!
is it broken? Find the problem and repair it.
do you want it to be different? rebuilt a part of it or change the software.
Are you able to do what you want to do? No? Pay someone to do it, or spend time learning, it is up to you.
if you improved it just share! You had the whole project for free!
if you want a fridge maybe you will buy a prebuilt one, but you surely want it to be your. If you need a particulat piece of it maybe there are manufacturer that can sell it to you.
And then you could even chose the manufacturer! Because your object respect open standards.
If there aren't any open manufacturer you live either in the desert or in a very sad city, but still, you can buy a 3d printer, or a solder kit and do it on your own. -
@Condor I had to re-read your final question a couple of time, sorry
I don't see why not, the value is in the electronics not in the case.
If the customer have the pcb file it way easier for him to call a pcb-company and ask them to print it.
I thought I'd opened every shitty type of Chinese-grade electronics by now. Glued in shit, ultrasonically welded shit, potted shit. And occasionally the now very rare piece of electronics that has actual screws.
Until now. Remington, apparently yet another company filled with certified enganeers. My razor is from them, and I wanted to open it up to see why the lithium cell inside was failing, and to replace it with a bigger one. 2 screws in the back of the unit, Phillips head. But holy fuck, those things sat in there more tightly than the glory hole of the Asian girl that probably assembled this thing. Externalizing our own features in our craft? Check!
Pretty hard to remove them but that's fine. But the unit didn't open up, and there seems to be no screws left. I guess that they leveled up their level of certified enganeering and actually used both screws and ultrasonic welding. Because why wouldn't you, right?!
Motherfuckers.
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