See this thread for one of those journeys (running nerves on a fairphone 2): Running Nerves on Android e-waste
Nice, detailed write up. Was a good read and now making me wonder what I can do with an old Pixel 3 I have. haha
Yeah, people certainly get it done with random devices but it is a lot of effort per device typically, as Jon said.
One of the reasons I started this post was because I saw Jason’s talk on use cases for Nerves and that got my noggin joggin:
For IP cameras you can check out https://openipc.org/ and see if your cameras are compatible with it.
Gonna check all these links out!
Thank you all, really informative info everyone provided 
