[Metalab] Samsung Galxy S7 for free for maker

[Stephan Petzl]

This is an awesome idea! I don’t have any idea how to target media, but I would definitely send this to Samsung Austria.

Let me know if you need support for this project.

Stephan

> On 16 Oct 2016, at 23:03, leopold zyka <leopold.zyka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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/ <https://www.techbold.at/> or by https://eustore.ifixit.com/ <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/ <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://futurezone.at/>
> https://www.wired.com <https://www.wired.com/>
> http://www.extremetech.com <http://www.extremetech.com/>
> https://www.techbold.at/ <https://www.techbold.at/>
> https://www.iot-austria.at <https://www.iot-austria.at/>
> http://fabfoundation.org/ <http://fabfoundation.org/>
> https://www.fablabs.io/ShanghaiFablab <https://www.fablabs.io/ShanghaiFablab>
> 
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