# Today: Disassembling a printer; Starlink Gateways Geo Locations (2024-02-09)

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**Created:** [February 10, 2024, 6:41am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/today-disassembling-a-printer-starlink-gateways-geo-locations-2024-02-09/70 "2024-02-10T06:41:46Z")\
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Are you looking for the perfect gift for elementary school girls? Look no further! I got [https://www.ifixit.com/](https://www.ifixit.com/) tools with the mat for my daughters. We spent hours today disassembling a 2007 Brother laser printer. (The printer still works, but we swapped it for a newer/faster/higher pixel density one.)

There are lots of goodies inside a printer:

- we learned that gears are greasy (and dug deep into why)
- we found some LEDs (and possibly damaged some of them with high voltage)
- pulled out a fan and plugged it into a Bose 12v power supply (old speakers) and had a blast
  - the girls are thinking about making a battery operated portable fan for their aunt

- measured the voltage of the Bose power supply and learned about what’s safe and what’s not
  - if it measures above 50-60 V - may be safe
  - **never** plug any of this equipment in outlets - 110/220V could kill you
  - 24V, 12V and below is totally ok

- we found the box with the laser, were alarmed by a bright yellow warning in several languages informing us that the laser could damage our vision, and decided to postpone disassembling this

 ![image](https://pluralist.net/uploads/default/original/1X/df42cb15e9dd09ba9e5487429311ec64da285a6b.jpeg)

 ![image](https://pluralist.net/uploads/default/original/1X/8a55a122032463a539b6146be649bb9a142d83be.jpeg)

 ![image](https://pluralist.net/uploads/default/original/1X/a5fc67561ae22fb7faa9ae3db16307c1702cb9f0.jpeg)

 ![image](https://pluralist.net/uploads/default/original/1X/22ef93e753aa09dbda57c2caf8a8bc55dda8ffc0.jpeg)

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# Starlink PoPs (Gateways?)

I’ve been wondering for awhile where Starlink Points of Presence (PoPs) are. My understanding is that Starlink customers’ traffic is routed to a gateway (PoP) within their country of residence. Perhaps this avoids a plethora of legal issues that arise from running an ISP in different countries with different laws.

- Stallink publishes RFC 8805 for their PoPs (RFC 8805 provides a standardized format for self-published IP geolocation): [https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/](https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/)
  - the domain **[starlinkisp.net](http://starlinkisp.net)** is owned by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (AS 14593 SPACEX-STARLINK)

- Visualization of the above PoP list: [Unofficial Starlink GeoIP Map](https://pan.uvic.ca/~clarkzjw/starlink/)

> Note: There is a subtle difference between a PoP and a Gateway - it is not yet clear to me what [geo.starlinkisp.net](http://geo.starlinkisp.net) is a list of?