I found an amazon basics color changing smart light bulb attached to a lamp my neighbor threw in the apartment dumpster.
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@MLE_online it's got all the nutrients a growing IoT product needs!
glad this one was rescued from going to the landfill
@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
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Hey yeah! Esp32 pico!
@MLE_online a lightbulb you could run MicroPython on ...
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@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 ah thank you
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Hey yeah! Esp32 pico!
@MLE_online I'm wondering if the 6 pins on that side are programming headers?
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@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
@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
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@MLE_online I'm wondering if the 6 pins on that side are programming headers?
Or JTAG@pearofdoom those 8 pins are what connects to the led board. I don't know anything beyond that
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@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
@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
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@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
@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
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Hey yeah! Esp32 pico!
Brute force works
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@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
@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.
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@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
@SnoopJ what else would someone do?
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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 We had a stove with a built-in air fryer that required access to a wifi network. Why???
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Brute force works
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@SnoopJ what else would someone do?
@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
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Brute force works
@MLE_online I like to think of it as percussive maintenance lol
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@MLE_online this is why i follow you. for the weird shit you do with power tools
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Brute force works
@MLE_online the tip of the socket is a ribbed pin that can be force-pulled out, it locks in a wire.
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@nickzoic @MLE_online The part poking into the LED area is the antenna. The rest of the board is fine inside of the base of the bulb surrounded by metal, but that faraday cage ain't going to work for the the wifi antenna.
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Brute force works
It's free! And it looks like all the relevant pins are broken out
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@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
@SnoopJ @MLE_online
Going at it with power supply tricks to glitch around the security and reflash could itself be valued science.Likewise microprobing with narishige micromanipulators on the die to get past it might be cool too.
