I found an amazon basics color changing smart light bulb attached to a lamp my neighbor threw in the apartment dumpster.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

I found an amazon basics color changing smart light bulb attached to a lamp my neighbor threw in the apartment dumpster.

Apparently you can only change the color by giving the bulb access to your wifi network and using the alexa app on your phone. Very stupid.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

Cutting it open to see what's inside

[emily_s@mastodon.me.uk]

@MLE_online "I see your glue and raise you a machine shop"

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

Hmm. Ok. Some kind of esp32 looking thing

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@hobbs I looked and didn't see anyone talking about hacking this model of bulb, and I'm not clever enough to figure that out from scratch

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

I'm not sure how that aluminum plate is held in. Pressed? Glued? Dunno

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@MLE_online this is why i follow you. for the weird shit you do with power tools

[nflux@gts.exile.social]

@MLE_online i like the slicey boi on your drill press. i would likely injure myself quite badly on something like that so am not in a hurry to fit one but it's a neat solution

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

Hey yeah! Esp32 pico!

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@MLE_online it's got all the nutrients a growing IoT product needs!

glad this one was rescued from going to the landfill

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@nflux It's called a slitting saw, and it's ideally supposed to be used on metal in a mill, but it will cut plastic in my drill press. (It will also cut metal in my drill press, but I have to be much more careful

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@SnoopJ It could still end up in the landfill if I don't figure out what to do from here. I have to get that plate off, and then figure out if I can reprogram the ESP32

[scruss@xoxo.zone]

@MLE_online a lightbulb you could run MicroPython on ...

[nflux@gts.exile.social]

@MLE_online ah thank you

[pearofdoom@cloudisland.nz]

@MLE_online I'm wondering if the 6 pins on that side are programming headers?
Or JTAG

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@MLE_online I'd be surprised if they took effort to lock people out, but I guess it's possible that they use a blanket approach with code signing, since it *does* represent attack surface

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@pearofdoom those 8 pins are what connects to the led board. I don't know anything beyond that

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@SnoopJ yeah but there's also the matter of me having to figure out how to reverse engineer everything else so I can come up with some code to control the LEDs and connect to it over WiFi

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@MLE_online I was wondering if you wanted to re-use that hardware, but I'm not shocked that you're thinking along those lines, yea.

here's hoping

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

Brute force works