Mastodawn

What can I do with a (jailbroken) iPad 1?

https://nord.pub/c/nostupidquestions/p/132722/what-can-i-do-with-a-jailbroken-ipad-1

What can I do with a (jailbroken) iPad 1?

So I have the first generation of iPads from about 16 years ago. It's jailbroken and I'm wondering what I can use it for and what I can do on it an…

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Yaky

Here is one of iPad reuse projects

And here is a crazier and thorough project on replacing internals

TBF I considered using my old iPad2 as in-car navigation or just as permanently-on weather display or picture frame. (If battery doesn’t swell from being on all the time)

Old IPad To New Screen

Turning surplus LCD panels into stand-alone monitors with the help of a driver board is an established hack, and a search of eBay or AliExpress will turn up boards for almost any widely available p…

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