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Fixing 200 broken raspberry Pis to prevent e-waste and donating the money raised

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This relates to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25885348 I think

Yes - this is Part 4 of journey for repairing them.

ToruiDev has linked part 1, OP is part 4.

Do the package transitions make more waste (due to co2 emissions at least) than actually recycling e-waste instead of sending them back and forth? Just wandering.

Amazing stuff.

I really wish old phones would have unlockable bootloaders and upstream hardware support.

Millions of devices which could be reused consigned to the dustbin.

Apple has a page with pictures of lush green forests and deep blue oceans, so what you're saying can't possibly be true. They would never create mountains of e-waste, because their products are impossible to repair.

https://www.apple.com/environment/

Where is the BUY button? I read the previous article when it was trending on HN and wanted to perhaps buy one if shipping wouldn't cost much. But I don't know how to.

Anyone?

They're selling them on eBay.

Part 2 of their blog had a link to one of their listings:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raspberry-pi-model-b-x2/274658053...

Does anyone have an idea why my Raspberry Pi 1 (2011) won't boot with a specific SD card?

I did a full writing/reading test by md5summing the reading result with the test data and it seems perfectly fine.

I had Raspbian installed on that SD card before and it booted, but now it won't boot anymore, no matter how many times I flash it. Other SD cards work fine.

Could it be a partition issue?

It may also just be a marginal card - perhaps one of the fingers is missing a contact spot in just the place the Pi needs to see it.

I don't know if the Pi can boot from a USB flash reader, but you could try that.

If it's a large SD card, then that might be it. The partition limit for the Pi Zero, 1 and 2 is 256GB[1].

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/sd-ca...

No, it's 8GB.

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