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Its a solar powered phone webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. (social.chrisco.me)
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This is my solar powered setup. A somewhat old Pixel 6a that fell from a foot and a half (really!?), a 10w Solar setup that was around 20$ on amazon. And an old compost container I have too many of. Ill be giving it a proper 3d printed case when I get a chance (and a host of other changes) but for now this works! Its worth about 40$ in total (the phone is now worth about 21$ on the open market).

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Website: https://solar.chrisco.me

Website was made with a collection of scripts, apache2 (nginx for some reason did not install, errors), and termux. Ill open source the whole setup in a bit. Theres not much to it to be honest.

Hopefully keeping the battery at 80% will help the lifetime of the battery. I may bump it up at some point if it keeps dieing because lack of sunlight. But we shall see.

More info in the link. I couldn't get Piefed to repost from a GotoSocial link.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I had the idea to use an old phone as a server recently. Phones are pretty energy efficient, so it seems like it'd be a smart way to recycle one. Does anyone know if this is actually a good practical idea for a lightweight personal server, rather than just a novelty? I haven't heard of anyone doing it before so I'm assuming there's a reason it isn't a good idea, but I don't know what that'd be.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I think the best question to ask first is ‘what kind of server?’

    A web server could run a reasonably busy low-tech web2.0 blog site on a phone, I think without breaking a sweat.

    Other types of serving (media, especially) would be resource limited) maybe not.

    And there is an important difference between ’novelty’ and ‘demo’. Even a novelty server can demonstrate new ways to think about tech. Maybe an author could host their book launch on such a setup, serving only a single file and showing that we don’t exactly need to involve Amazon. That’s where my head goes when thinking about these efforts.

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