My chest freezer stopped freezing. A quick diagnostic revealed a broken thermostat. I've replaced this thermostat once before, but now they where out of stock, and it was hard to find a good replacement that was worth the money in repairing a 15 year old freezer. So what to do?

Replaced the old mechanical thermostat with dual temp sensors, a relay and an esp32-C3. Connected a display and installed EspHome.
Some quick modeling in #freecad and #3dprint on my old Ender S1.

That's a good upgrade. Not only can I digitally control the temp, i also can control the compressors runtime with automated cool downs. And of course I can control my freezer from #homeassistant.

And best of all, I haven't just saved myself some money. I also saved the planet from wasted resources and the climate impacts for (hopefully) many freezer years to come. #repair #righttorepair

My chest freezer stopped freezing. A quick diagnostic revealed a broken thermostat. I've replaced this thermostat once before, but now they where out of stock, and it was hard to find a good replacement that was worth the money in repairing a 15 year old freezer. So what to do?

Replaced the old mechanical thermostat with dual temp sensors, a relay and an esp32-C3. Connected a display and installed EspHome.
Some quick modeling in #freecad and #3dprint on my old Ender S1.

That's a good upgrade. Not only can I digitally control the temp, i also can control the compressors runtime with automated cool downs. And of course I can control my freezer from #homeassistant.

And best of all, I haven't just saved myself some money. I also saved the planet from wasted resources and the climate impacts for (hopefully) many freezer years to come. #repair #righttorepair

After 5 years of faithful service, my #refurbished #Samsung Galaxy S9 has died.

It's been replaced with a beautiful green @Fairphone 6 which I instantly fell in love with.

What's more: for the first time, I experienced the power of the #DigitalMarketAct:

#Fairphone6 #RightToRepair #DMA #competition