Discarded vapes are becoming the new cigarette butts in pollution terms, but a hacker has found a novel way to repurpose the chips they contain to build a web server.

BogdanTheGeek, the handle for researcher Bogdan Ionescu, took apart a discarded vape pen, which he describes as "fancier pacifiers for adults," and decided to repurpose it . The base-level kit was "so bad, it's basically disposable" he said, consisting of a 24MHz Cortex M0+ chip, 24KB of flash storage and just 3KB of static RAM, but it was still workable.

"You may look at those specs and think that it’s not much to work with," he reported.

"I don’t blame you, a 10y old phone can barely load Google, and this is about 100x slower. I, on the other hand, see a blazingly fast web server."

Well, maybe not so blazingly fast - at

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