That irresistible urge to rescue an interesting piece of hardware from the trash is something that pretty much every Hackaday reader will have felt at one time or another. Sometimes it’s something that you could put to work immediately, like an old computer or some scrap piece of material that’s just the right size. But other times, you find something on the side of the road that ends up being the impetus for a whole new project.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/04/06/kids-ride-gets-boosted-battery-esp32-control/