Gus"Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape"
https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
Truly, we live in an age of absurdly wasteful wonders.
(Although the vapes aren't running Android. Yet.)
wobweger 
Hippie
Space-G@projectgus I don't know a lot about electronics and circuit design... Do you have any insight into why a simple rechargeable vape would need a microcontroller at all?
Like, I have the impression that a dedicated battery dealing IC connected to the power lines of the USB connector should work and be cheaper, but again, I don't know much. It just feels overkill for that
@spaceg It's a very good question! I think the large 8-pin IC on the right is probably for battery charge management.
I'm not that familiar with vape technology, but my understanding is you need a timer so you're not powering the heating element for too long at once (and with long enough gaps in between). I think thats what the generic black epoxy Vape ICs implement, and probably what they've used the micro for.
You don't need a whole microcontroller with 3KB of RAM to do that, but if its as cheap as the simpler alternative then I suppose there's no reason not to...
Matteꙮ Italia@projectgus @spaceg the fun part is that someone (IIRC in the linked reddit thread) noticed that if you disconnect the battery and reconnect it, it resets the counter, so it's not like it's even stored in EEPROM or anything 😄 . The most incredible part to me, though, is that it seems like that chip is ~$ 0.08, so I guess we are in the realm where it's not like you can save much money by mounting anything simpler? The biggest cost is probably the lithium battery, I think.
@projectgus while looking for the micro documentation I found this explanation for the absurd waste
https://old.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/1eozp71/puya_py32_c642_in_a_disposable_vape/lhizb8l/
> It's a combination of legislation and legal loopholes. The very real and justified concern about kids vaping triggered some very bad knee jerk legislation that got us here.
>
> Disposable products are under a lot less regulation and scrutiny than domestic rebuildable vape and e-liquid producers. This was largely to keep products like Juul around. It's a long story and I'm not an expert, but it's a lot more difficult to get components and juice for rebuildable vapes than disposables nowadays. I literally can't order vape juice online anymore (NY) but every smoke shop has a massive catalog of disposables.
>
> Additionally, disposable vaporizer companies hop around between shell companies constantly to avoid import restrictions and legal scrutiny. Geekbars, elfbars, puffbars etc all come from a handful of producers in Asia that sell to a myriad of shady shell companies that handle the import to the US. Believe me, we'd rather use rebuildable vapes at least at home if they weren't such a pain in the ass.
Cutie-PHY"haha, good Photoshop!"
"Wait, is that actually...?"
*searches internet for "Swype"*
*Moves into cave, never comes out again*
Terenc3|Ben
Jo@sad_electronics @projectgus Convergence has gone too far. 🙃
MissConstrue@projectgus I love the fediverse so very much. 🥰
Simon ZerafaThrowing away that level of resources is frankly fucking stupid 😟🤦♂️
One possible good point is that our descendents will thank us for building huge caches of recyclable materials for them to mine.
Miakoda 
a vape “smartphone”?: let’s explore!!
Nikolas@projectgus
Mhhh disapointed, no way to connect it to chatgpt over MCP protocol🤣
Mhhh disapointed, no way to connect it to chatgpt over MCP protocol🤣
Jeremy List@projectgus a long time ago I read something about a website that was hosted on a microcontroller inside an Ethernet plug in someone's router.
Gallen 🔜 Gdakon, EF@projectgus
Lol fancy pacifiers for adults XD
Lol fancy pacifiers for adults XD
neongod@projectgus ”Someone’s trash is another person’s webserver”. This is actually hilarious. And so wasteful at the same time. One just smoked a webserver 😂
Till O'Rly 
Choosing "Disposable Vape" when initializing a new project in platformio, when?
ramblingsteve@projectgus how long before we can build a parallel computing cluster from them?
Prof Lutz@projectgus Does the reciprocal exist, people getting high on fumes from burning web servers?😑
Humphrey Catgart@projectgus
Wäre das ein Bastelprojekt für dich? @[email protected]
Alternativ auf einer elektrischen Zahnbürste 
Wäre das ein Bastelprojekt für dich? @[email protected]
Alternativ auf einer elektrischen Zahnbürste
Cyber Yuki@projectgus Does it run Doom? 😁
Eric Gerlach@projectgus There is now more computing power in a vape than there was in my first computer, a TI-99/4A.
Arnim Sommer 🇪🇺@projectgus
So, no Android Health?😉
So, no Android Health?😉
ROLLER@projectgus sad days, I can't reach the site. Did it run out of charge?