[Metalab] Samsung Galxy S7 for free for maker

[leopold zyka]

Wer hat Ideen ?, Kontakte ? Wie können wir das geeignet in den Medien
unterbringen ?

Dear Mr. Hruska,

Thank you for your fast reply.
It is clear that it is not possible to transport the phones including the
batteries with an airplane.
The batteries have to be removed and disposed ! I did no research on the
depollution problem of the batteries until now,
but the removal from the smartphone is an easy task.
This has to bee done by repaircenters, by ifixit or similar institutions.

Leopold

2016-10-16 22:22 GMT+02:00 Joel Hruska <joel.hruska at gmail.com>:
Interesting idea. Unfortunately, it is now illegal to fly Samsung Galaxy
Note 7's on an airplane in the United States, in any particular. I think
that's going to prevent them from being redistributed. Samsung will just
destroy the entire line.

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 2:37 PM, leopold zyka <leopold.zyka at gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear Mr. Sungham Kim,

2015 BBC gave away *1 million "Micro Bit computers" for free*.

I dont know, if it is true but the media tells us that there are plans to
destroy all the Galaxy Note 7 devices.
An alternative would be to give the *Galaxy Note 7 to the maker-community* *for
free* after removing the batteries.

*Samsung Austria is positioned as innovation hub*.
My proposal would be a great opportunity for *open innovation* in the crowd.
I have several ideas for alternative use reaching from mesh 3D scanning to
IoT and low scale artificial intelligence.
I am sure that there would come up a lot of use cases in *hackathons* which
could go beyond the popular *raspberry* designs
due to the power of the Galaxy S7.
*Challenges* would be a possibility to find new ideas which could be
feedback for future device development at Samsung.
I am not a marketing or pr guy but I think spending the otherwise useless
devices to makers, fablabs, developers would give sympathy
back to Samsung from the international community which is comparable to the
size of produced Galaxy S7 devices.

Disassembling and removing the batteries for devices which are already
shipped could be done by local
repair centers like https://www.techbold.at/ or by
https://eustore.ifixit.com/
This might be cheaper than the recall of over two million phones.

As a technician I understand the problems using batteries at leading edge
technology.
I think so does a community of millions of DIY activists and maker around
the world.
But we dont have comprehension for *obscolescence* and design which is not
sustainable.
Making devices where you can not easily replace the batteries for me is a
anti-pattern and design flaw.
That is the reason I stay with Samsung S5 neo !
If it is true that all Galaxy Note 7 should be destroyed as I can read in
the media this would be the worst case scenario
of this disaster.
We have to imagine how many million (octa)cores, sensors, cams Samsung
produced which are embedded in the Galaxy S7
dormant for creative usage.

To my person:
I am the founder of a registered fablab which is part of the
http://fabfoundation.org/
I am very active as open source evangelist in the international makerscene
and at IoT Austria.
If you want farther information please let me know.

At the first step this proposal went to you and in cc: to
https://futurezone.at/
https://www.wired.com
http://www.extremetech.com
https://www.techbold.at/
https://www.iot-austria.at
http://fabfoundation.org/
https://www.fablabs.io/ShanghaiFablab

Leopold Zyka vka qubit1729
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Leopold Zyka
Pfarrwiesengasse 11/1/11
A-1190 Vienna
Tel.: 0699 1024 1032
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