Qwijib0Sep 30, 2024
melle

I usually don't brag about our products, but today I have to. We made a thing and I think it's something special: It's a speaker with repairability in mind. Every product should be made like this.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/More-than-repairable-Teufel-presents-an-unusual-speaker-9863978.html

More than repairable: Teufel presents an unusual speaker

Teufel's new Bluetooth speaker Mynd can be repaired and upgraded. It is also designed to be particularly sustainable.

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Sep 30, 2024 at 10:28amWeb
Show threadmelleSep 30, 2024

I'm really excited to see what people will do with it and what creative ideas will come to life around this product.

(Nice detail: on the bottom we print short infos about the material used, battery spec and screws sizes)

Show threadPhilip BrechlerSep 30, 2024
@melle This is really cool. So simpel yet so powerful!
Show threadHabrokOct 2, 2024
@melle Very nice, thank you!
I had to label a laptop I have to open quite often to remember that the screws are small torx screws and which bit size fits.
Show threadUckermark MacGyver Oct 2, 2024
@melle wow, this looks really cool. Shut up and take my money :) #Teufel #Mynd
Show threadmmu_manOct 2, 2024
@melle I recall thinking about an online database indexed with barcode or something that would hold schematics and such infos… At least those will stay with the product, unlike some infos I've seen on boxes that usually get thrown away… 👍
Show threadmmu_manOct 2, 2024

@melle and with schematics, wow!

It's been the norm for 100+ years, just people forgot the last 30 years.

cf. https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmu_man/2021-10-04_ok_lenovo_we_need_to_talk/

OK Lenovo, we need to talk!

I’ve been wanting to publicly comment on Lenovo’s statement on Linux support for a while, as there’s much to say about it, and my failing attempt at finding a suitable replacement for my venerable T510 gave me an excuse to document …

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Show threadRomain Sep 30, 2024

@melle sadly a lot of engineering culture is being like "why make it easy to repair when we can absolutely make it impossible to break?"

Little do they know, they actually cannot make the thing impossible to break... and even if they could... that would create other problems (disposal?)

Show threadscyOct 1, 2024

@melle Very cool! Thinking about buying one of these.

For something that calls itself an "open source speaker", I would expect the firmware source code to be public, too, but I can't find anything about this in the article. Is that something you consider doing?

Show threadmelleOct 1, 2024
@scy I cannot promise anything as there are many parties involved. Would love to see this too, as well as the spec of the app-protocol.
Show threadchrysnOct 1, 2024
@melle @scy Being Open Source is a big promise to make good on – hope it works out.
Even if not, the availability of part numbers on the less audio-special-sauce-y and more data-shoveling parts (Bluetooth / USB) might open up the kind of novel and sometimes odd applications Free Software can enable, eg. "set up USB Ethernet at the USB socket, and make it a network speaker".
Show threadOliver Pfleiderer 🇬🇱Oct 18, 2024
@scy @melle I am already thinking about writing...
Open hardware is coming and I love it.
Show threadNina KalininaOct 1, 2024
@melle I cannot reject cookies without subscribing? What? %)
Show threadEris Oct 3, 2024
@nina_kali_nina @melle You can use reader mode in a lot of browsers to bypass that
Show threadNina KalininaOct 3, 2024
@Eris I mean, there are lots of things I can do, but this decision sounds evil to me. "Let us identify you or let us identify you if you want to access our website"
Show threadEris Oct 3, 2024
@nina_kali_nina oh yeah it's absolutely evil and i am sceptical about how legal it is under EU cookie regulations but lots of German sites do it anyway
Show threadAlexander K‮kn‭liOct 1, 2024
@melle @scy shut up and take my money (and also lol at “if they give up the ghost”)
Show threadMarkus KorporalOct 2, 2024
@melle Liebe das sehr!
Show threadWorthülseOct 2, 2024

@melle I hate buying electronics because I know they will break in a few years and can't be repaired. This device wipes my aversion aside.

German version of the artricle:
Deutsche Version des Artikels:
https://www.heise.de/news/Mehr-als-reparierbar-Teufel-stellt-ungewoehnlichen-Lautsprecher-vor-9863891.html

Mehr als reparierbar: Teufel stellt ungewöhnlichen Lautsprecher vor

Teufels neuer Bluetooth-Lautsprecher Mynd ist reparier- und upgradebar. Außerdem soll er besonders nachhaltig gefertigt sein.

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Show threadpoetasterOct 2, 2024
@melle having just done battery replacements on two jbls, i say, yeah! Right on!
Show threadKarstenOct 2, 2024
@melle die Übersetzung des Artikels (originaler text vermutlich in deutsch) ist der Hammer 😁
„Not only can the battery be replaced, but also the electronics in case they give up the ghost.“
Show threadmelleOct 3, 2024
@pepe96 Bei Heise arbeiten nur noch Bots 😕
Show threadeickotOct 3, 2024
@melle Do you work at teufel?
Show threadmelleOct 3, 2024
@eickot I do.
Show threadeickotOct 3, 2024
@melle nice, as an ios developer? right? I've bought some teufel things in the past.
Show threadBebef 🦦🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚙🐼🥦🚩🏴Oct 3, 2024

@melle Love it! Open source circuit diagrams and 3D objects? Awesome!

I don't need one and 250€ is not exactly cheap, but I might get one anyway, just because of the cool concept.

Please please with sugar on top: MORE OF THIS!

EVERYONE should make products like this!

*written from my Framework notebook

Show threadMoved, see descriptionOct 3, 2024
@melle
Here I was looking for a speaker so... That's enticing
Show threadFediThing Oct 3, 2024

@melle

Thank you for making this!

It is how electrical/electronic products used to be made, they used to all come with repair manuals and replaceable parts. It would be great to get back to that.

Show threadfooxlOct 4, 2024

@melle

👀 @suka_hiroaki

Show threadzendao42Oct 7, 2024
@melle
Yes!
Show threadHomo ParticepsJan 30, 2025
@melle
It seems to be delayed... Can you tell when it will be available ?
Show threadchrysnMay 20, 2025
@melle Seeing the licenses now, I'm way more excited than with the original announcement. Looks great!
Show threadstefan (stefbun)Jun 2, 2025
@melle Great work. Not going the Sonos-Route is good
Show threadvollkorn (DECT 5676/"korn")Jul 18, 2025
@melle This is a really cool product I just learned about while searching for the kind of speakers I'd like to place around my flat. I'd love to have something like these with streaming from a server like snapcast and I could build it!