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Thing Labs

Tools and resources for tinkering with the Spotify Car Thing, sometimes referred to as its codename "Superbird"
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Thing Labs

We're a small team of developers working on revitalizing the Spotify™ Car Thing™

Projects

Below you'll find a list of projects we're currently working on:

  • DeskThing - Replacement OS for the Car Thing, allowing you to run custom web-based applications
  • superbird-tool - CLI Tool for flashing, dumping and modifying the firmware on the Car Thing
  • thingify.tools - A website to find and download various Car Thing related tools & firmware
  • Unnamed Superbird Connector - A WIP tool to return original functionality to the Car Thing after Spotify ends support

Disclaimer

"Spotify", "Car Thing" and the Spotify logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Spotify AB. Thing Labs is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Spotify AB. All other trademarks, service marks, and trade names are the property of their respective owners.

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  1. wiki wiki Public

    Collection of general information about the Spotify CarThing and the various ways in which it can be modified

    56

  2. superbird-tool superbird-tool Public

    Forked from bishopdynamics/superbird-tool

    Cross-Platform Spotify Car Thing (superbird) hacking toolkit

    Python 76 8

  3. firmware-updates firmware-updates Public

    Firmware updates pulled from the OTA server

    3

Repositories

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  • superbird-tool Public Forked from bishopdynamics/superbird-tool

    Cross-Platform Spotify Car Thing (superbird) hacking toolkit

    ThingLabsOSS/superbird-tool's past year of commit activity
    Python 76 15 0 0 Updated Aug 13, 2026
  • superbird-fip-tools Public

    Rebuild and flash signed FIP images for the Spotify Car Thing using the leaked aml-user-key.sig production key. Boots custom u-boot at power-on.

    ThingLabsOSS/superbird-fip-tools's past year of commit activity
    Go 1 0 0 0 Updated Aug 13, 2026
  • superbird-uboot Public

    Mainline u-boot port for the Spotify Car Thing (Amlogic G12A / S905D2)

    ThingLabsOSS/superbird-uboot's past year of commit activity
    C 1 0 0 0 Updated Aug 13, 2026
  • superbird-webapp Public

    Reconstructed source code of Spotify Car Thing/Superbird webapp (8.9.2 update)

    ThingLabsOSS/superbird-webapp's past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 2 0 0 0 Updated Jul 14, 2026
  • peek-carthing Public

    Deep hardware inventory tool for the Spotify Car Thing — kernel module + JSON-producing userspace aggregator. Pulls live MMIO state (HHI, VPU/ENCL, DSI, Mali GPU, eMMC, audio bus, DDR) that CONFIG_DEVMEM=n on stock kernel locks out, plus sysfs/proc walk.

    ThingLabsOSS/peek-carthing's past year of commit activity
    Python 0 0 0 0 Updated May 21, 2026
  • swift-ogg Public Forked from element-hq/swift-ogg
    ThingLabsOSS/swift-ogg's past year of commit activity
    Swift 0 Apache-2.0 37 0 0 Updated May 18, 2026
  • peek-corpus Public

    Open hardware-state corpus for the Spotify Car Thing. Ingest, dedupe, and download peek-carthing captures. Live at https://peek.thinglabs.sh

    ThingLabsOSS/peek-corpus's past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated May 16, 2026
  • SwiftMsgPack Public Forked from malcommac/SwiftMsgPack

    💬 Fast & Lightweight MsgPack Serializer & Deserializer for Swift

    ThingLabsOSS/SwiftMsgPack's past year of commit activity
    Swift 0 MIT 28 0 0 Updated Apr 28, 2026
  • wiki-astro Public
    ThingLabsOSS/wiki-astro's past year of commit activity
    MDX 2 0 0 0 Updated Oct 1, 2025
  • firmware-updates Public

    Firmware updates pulled from the OTA server

    ThingLabsOSS/firmware-updates's past year of commit activity
    3 0 0 0 Updated Sep 20, 2025
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