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How to repurpose your old phone's GPS modem into a web server

https://blog.nns.ee/2021/04/01/modem-blog
29•xx_ns•2h ago

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xx_ns•2h ago
Just a little play on the recent HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016902

Project that I did a few years ago. You might also be interested in the retrospective where I detail what all went wrong: https://blog.nns.ee/2025/04/01/modem-blog-retrospective/

Havoc•1h ago
That’s pretty awesome

Isn’t such an old kernel dangerous for hosting though?

xx_ns•46m ago
Good question! I wasn't too concerned about this, because the only way you could even interact with the OS where the server was running was via HTTP requests, which are fairly limited in nature. The OS or kernel itself wasn't directly exposed per se.
yjftsjthsd-h•1h ago
There was also work to replace the modem OS wholesale: https://hackaday.com/2022/07/12/open-firmware-for-pinephone-...

That would, I expect, help with the unfortunately old kernel version and generally give greater confidence in what's running on the second computer inside the computer.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF•2m ago
Symbiogenesis is 100% true for computers huh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis#Mitochondria

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How to repurpose your old phone's GPS modem into a web server

https://blog.nns.ee/2021/04/01/modem-blog
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