I have a pair of end-of-life phones (CAT S61 and S62) with FLIR Lepton thermal cores in them.
Anybody know if there is a good way to disassemble them to salvage the thermal modules without destroying them? I don't care about the rest of the phone, it's gonna end up in ewaste.
Andrew Zonenberg
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2026-05-02 08:57:47 UTC
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