Okay, that title is little rich. I have some old phones which have only partly given up. This particular one (a Samsung Galaxy Note8) has an issue with the screen where it fails to light up the screen, so that it will accept input via touch, but you can’t see what you’re doing or it does light up but the bottom bit flickers really badly, as per the pictures. The camera and apps all work perfectly otherwise. So it occurred to me that I could mount the phone such that all I had to do was it turn it on and leave it recording and I’d have a dash cam! I folded up a bit aluminium (notice that I haven’t even taking the plastic backing off), used a hammer to beat the edge around the phone, risking smashing the phone even more. I realised as I was doing this that […]
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