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

[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

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@MLE_online @SnoopJ You've seen https://github.com/wilco375/ESP-Firmware-Toolbox ?

EDIT: and RX/TX pins are shown on page 9 of https://documentation.espressif.com/esp32-pico-v3-zero_datasheet_en.pdf . Not sure which one is GPIO0.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@SnoopJ what else would someone do?

[edrei@mastodon.sdf.org]

@MLE_online We had a stove with a built-in air fryer that required access to a wifi network. Why???

[sylvhem@eldritch.cafe]

@MLE_online

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@MLE_online I was thinking from a perspective of "an ESP32 is generally useful for lots of things" (assuming it hasn't been locked out with secure boot)

I guess an instinctual slide into thinking about rescuing microprocessors etc. from landfill and putting them to other purposes, which I think about not-infrequently

but of course re-using the LEDs and associated fixins would be nice too

[larrybiggs@infosec.exchange]

@MLE_online I like to think of it as percussive maintenance lol