Re-purposing an outdated helium node

Hello everyone, I have an outdated Helium miner Rising HF that has great weatherproof case and Raspberry compute module inside. These units are blacklisted by helium as the hardware doesn’t support new Helium firmware so there is a lot of these on hand.The board of the miner also has GPS and LoRa. I am wondering if anyone here attempted to design a firmware or repurpose these units so they could continue to serve the community as repeaters. Maybe with some additional harware it could still be useful.
Here is how it looks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7s8QCjZ_G8
I don’t have technical skills to do that but would be glad to collaborate with someone to start this moving.

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