This chromebook’s touch pad was no longer working due to a loose ribbon cable, but thanks to a spare piece of plastic (from a gum package, no less) it’s once again functional and ready for action!!

The third evening of our drop-in repair event in partnership with the FabVille makerspace at Somerville Highschool this week has us diagnosing a Yamaha DX27 synthesizer!!

Last night we started Repair Week at Fabville in Boston! Here we cleaned up and repaired a MacBook Pro. There was a noise inside it, and one of the standoffs had broken off. We cleaned it with a duster, and its running without problems now! #repair #rightToRepair

Our incredible Abbie Gonzalez was just awarded a brand new Hyundai Tuscon in recognition of her unwavering service of our community!! HUGE THANKS to Gary Rome Hyundai for giving her the recognition she so greatly deserves! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tV...

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This is really sad. Also: if this has left some genuinely usable wonderful old tech hanging around your neck like an albatross, please consider donating it to Springfield.community! We’ve been having incredible luck with #KolibriOS on older devices! kotaku.com/trumps-new-e...

Trump’s New E-Waste Policy Puts Vintage Tech In The Crossfire

Aimed at reining in China's control of critical minerals, the White House is restricting e-waste exiting the country, whether it's a bin of abandoned cables or a sought after CRT

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huge congratulations to Abbie and Erica on their amazing talk at DEFCON 34 highlighting all the hard work we do at Springfield.community!

HUGE CONGRATS to our amazing Springfield.community Co-founder and President Erica Rachel Andrews on her receipt of the 2026 Commonwealth Pride Award!!

MASSIVE CONGRATS to our very own Erica Rachel Andrews, nominated for a 2026 Commonwealth Pride Award by 11th Hampden District Massachusetts State Representative Bud L. Williams. The award ceremony will be held at 11AM in the Senate Reading Room of the Massachusetts State House Wednesday June 17th.

We are truly grateful for the amazing donation of tech recently provided to us by Academy Hill! Check out the amazing work they do on behalf of their students and the community we’re proud to share at academyhill.org Rock on, ye good stewards of the next generation 🤘🎸

When we work together the possibilities are limitless. The amazing folks at Academy Hill just donated over 40 laptops and numerous desktops, monitors, and peripherals. They save on recycling; we get to continue our mission of helping residents of Greater Springfield 🥳

MASSIVE THANKS to Academy Hill for donating this AMAZING collection of second-hand tech! Once we’re done refurbishing, we’re excited to get this all out into the community and into the hands of Greater Springfield residents in need! W😳W!!!

The 3D-printed ASA adapter Erica designed for us in FreeCAD works perfectly! Welcome to the world, spfld.net-0001! #LoRa #MeshCore

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Looks like a successful print! Time to get up on the roof and start the installation of our next (technically first?) #MeshCore #LoRa repeater spfld.net-0001 a full week after the installation of spfld.net-0002 😜

Mating the 3.34” diameter laminated wooden dowel our #MeshCore #LoRa repeater lives at the top of to a 4.78” diameter iron roof vent pipe isn’t easy, but with FreeCAD, PrusaSlicer, the correct settings for printing ASA, a functional adapter design, and a set of adjustable straps it’s totally doable!

our original prototype #MeshCore repeater design (heavily based on www.instructables.com/Meshtastic-H...) spfld.net-0001 is going live tomorrow! (It’s too dark to install it on the roof of HQ this evening lol) Huge thanks to Patrick Sliney for donating the solar panel pictured! #LoRa

Our first deployed #MeshCore repeater, spfld.net-0002, is live! (0001 is on the bench while we work out a few additional kinks) Huge thanks to Strong Young Minds, LLC for the valuable roof space! Check out their amazing work and give them some love at StrongYoungMind.com!

Spoilers: other than making a difference in the lives of the young people of Greater Springfield Massachusetts, the best part of helping out at Strong Young Minds LLC’s 980 Bay St. Dream Center is the combined Amtrak passenger rail and CSX freight traffic and all the art we see!

Holy moly is that… Farmington, Connecticut!? Hello BULLRUN! I have a sneaking suspicion that our little corner of the mesh is about to get a lot more talkative a lot more quickly than we expected 🥳

A repeater that isn’t ours?! Soapstone Mountain?!?! Oh sh!t Connecticut what up!!!!! We hear them but they don’t seem to be able to hear us - maybe that changes once our first outdoor repeater goes up later this week? Good work Noah and RJS Radioman, whoever you are!!! 🥳

🥳 🥳 SUCCESS!! After setting baud to 9600 our T-Decks now have GPS functionality and sync clocks automatically (and more or less instantaneously) when turned on! Tomorrow we'll load them with maps and begin range testing in earnest 👾

The same HT1818Z3G5L module used in hpsaturn’s build is confirmed to be correctly installed but seems to be having a little bit of trouble finding satellites. Could this be because we’re indoors? Perhaps a configuration issue?

We’re building hpsaturn’s case for the LilyGO T-Deck out of transparent lime green PCTG filament in preparation for all the testing that will necessary to bring meshcore to Springfield! This design is beautiful and looks v snazzy with 5mm sockethead screws www.thingiverse.com/thing:6580397

A small stack of these laptops was donated, in good condition but with one problem: the rubberized coating had degraded and is sticky. The chassis has been removed for cleaning. Afterwards, they will be reassembled, packaged with software and redistributed.

AppleTalk router crashed and cut the Mac Plus off from the internet. Got the router back online, but it wouldn’t pass traffic. Just as I was about to post about it and take a break, it started working. #MARCHintosh

The Cracked Mac Plus survived the bot onslaught and is still, slowly, serving its web site. It saw about 30 visitors since last night. Visit at crackedmac.ddns.net:8080 or crackedmac.ddns.net

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Cracked Mac Website hosted on my ‘cracked’ Macintosh Plus is online at both crackedmac.ddns.net and crackedmac.ddns.net It’s not fast, but it works 😄 #MARCHintosh

link got clobbered crackedmac.ddns.net:8080

Don’t have my PowerBook 165 on the network yet, thus I pulled out the 3400c to update the website hosted on my Mac Plus #MARCHintosh