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How Spotify Car Thing Turned into an Open Source E-waste Nightmare
What This Video Covers
- Why Spotify decided to shut down Car Thing and what that means for existing devices.
- What parts of Car Thing are already open source and what remains locked down.
- Why releasing source code alone may not be enough to keep the hardware useful.
- What developers would need to turn Car Thing into something new.
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You may have heard the news that Spotify will brick its first hardware device, Car Thing. And you probably saw reports that Spotify refuses to open source the device so people can hack it and keep it going. But that's not true!
Today we'll get into the details of the Spotify Car Thing, its open source status, and the chances of modding it into something useful.
And if you have a Car Thing and don't know what to do with it, you can send it to me:
Josh Hendrickson
200 Loveland Madeira Rd #31
Loveland, OH 45140
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