Old router back to life

Connecting to Zyxel Keenetic 4G via ssh

So, I have an old but reliable router Zyxel Keenetic 4G Rev.A.

This is how it looks like:

Outside: top view

Inside: top view inside

top view inside

bottom view inside

It seems like manufacturer added 2 antenna connectors, but something didn’t go according to plan. bottom view inside

My question was: How can I turn it into tiny general-purpose computing device with network connection? Long story short, I found out that many years ago people did that to almost any similar device before openwrt including with the type I have. To honor the person who figured out how to put all the necessary components for user access on a flash drive, I posted this long-lost project in Github.

Link to the Github repo

The router chip has MIPS architecture and even 20Mb of free RAM. bottom view inside bottom view inside

Going back to the initial question, what project should I pick with requirements <20Mb of RAM and Gigabytes of flash memory 🤔