melleSep 30, 2024

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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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 threadchrysn
@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".
Oct 1, 2024 at 10:13pmWeb