Listening to the current episode of the Unnamed RE podcast, I got to learn about #DeskThing, a project repurposing the otherwise defunct Spotify Car Thing.

While I really like to see hardware being saved from ending up as ewaste, I was surprised to learn that very specifically, #AMD #hardware was having issues when using #adb. Interesting stuff.
They briefly mention at the bottom here that a #firmware upgrade should be worked on to fix it: https://carthing.wiki/legacy/adb/

ADB

How to use the ADB Tools

Thing Labs Wiki

Currently flashing my Spotify Car Thing with DeskThing. I’m sad that Spotify killed these off, but am excited to play around with hacking it a bit!

#Spotify #CarThing #DeskThing

DeskThing turns Spotify’s discontinued Car Thing into a PC controller and display

DeskThing is a free and open source application that breathes new life into Spotify’s discontinued Car Thing accessory by transforming it from a Spotify controller for cars into a desktop device that controls a wide variety of applications running on your PC.

It’s one of a number of tools that have come out of the Car Thing hacking community in the wake of Spotify’s announcement that it will […]

https://liliputing.com/?p=173241

#carthing #deskthing #openSource #spotify