Seeing all talk of technology and its impact on our lives, I thought it might be interesting to inventorise electronics at our main home and its usage:
- laptop running free and open source software. ~8h/day, mostly online
- e-reader. ~1h/day on average, in waves
- dumbphone. ~.2h/day
- musical instrument tuner. ~.1h/day
- backup usb stick. ~0.01h/day
- consumer digital camera. less frequent short interaction
- central heating control system and its ui panels. ~0 interaction.
- dsl router with builtin wifi access point. ~0 interaction.
- solar inverter reporting module. ~0 interaction.
- electricity meter. ~0 interaction.
- natural gas meter. ~0 interaction.
In storage or very infrequently used:
- extra computer screen. My wife uses this rather frequently when working from home.
- a few mice and keyboards. spares.
- a few internal and external hard disks, ssd's, sd cards, cd-r's and usb sticks. spares, backups and old cruft that needs cleaning up.
- old mp3 player/recorder with decent condensator mic accessory. Great. I might want to use this more again.
- two Canon EOS series digital camera bodies, and one lens (the other broke). Should sell these as there's clearly value left in them.
- two video mixer/streaming consoles. For occasional streaming gigs.
- two presentation pointers. For occasional streaming gigs.
- three old dumbphones. Should hand these in as e-waste.
- several consumer digital cameras from a past project. Should give these away, even if some come only with an ac adapter.
- a few aging embedded boards. Should sort these between e-waste and future project use.
- shitty bluetooth audio speaker. Gift from wife's work. Would be gone if I had a say in it.
- printer/scanner with empty cartridge. We stopped printing at home. I should give this away.
- spare laptops. Mostly kept these in case one of our second hand laptops break.
- a small stock of electronic parts: screens and sensors mostly. I should bring a bit more structure into this so I can actually use the parts when I need them.
- microcontroller programmer and debugger. I hope to use this more frequently again in the future when playing with electrical vehicle maintenance.