3 Clever Things You Can Do With an Old Amazon Kindle

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3 Clever Things You Can Do With an Old Amazon Kindle

Wired · 3 hours ago

An old Kindle can be repurposed beyond reading, with projects ranging from a simple Spotify remote to more technical custom displays.

– Turn it into a Spotify controller using Kindlify.co and Spotify Connect, allowing playback controls while another device plays the audio.
– Build a smart home display showing information such as weather, calendars, to-do lists and delivery updates; this requires coding, a custom website and hardware work.
– Create a literary clock that displays book quotations referring to the current minute, though setting it up also requires significant coding.

  • Old Kindles can serve as Spotify remotes.
  • More advanced projects create information displays.
  • A literary clock uses time-related book quotations.

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