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ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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Re: ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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Post by geotp »

pockybum522 wrote: post #10

Looks like an extremely cool concept, but I'm wary about how many bugs I'd run into trying to use it if the code has had as little effort put into it as the website. I think I'll keep just making up basic sketches when I need to work with one of these protocols - it's also nice that if I do that, when I see it work, I know I can expand functionality from there into what I need.

the firmware is in a very different state from the website. The codebase has a test suite, and hundreds of people are already using it, so it’s had a lot more work and real world testing

Re: ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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Post by geotp »

throwa356262 wrote: post #6

Can we get a normal landing page please? These AI generated pages make my eyes bleed. Anyway, I find the tiny C3 to be much more stable than other versions. It is a bit sad the very few projects support it.

the project is open source, so feel free to fork it and give the landing page the improvements you think it needs

Re: ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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Post by kotaKat »

fiatpandas wrote: post #15
043f14a097f5008 wrote: post #5

What the fuck is wrong with that website? It looks horrible. Why would anyone read that?

>Why would anyone read that? That’s the whole problem. No one read it before publishing.

also needs a "Show HN" tbh

Re: ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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Post by MattJ100 »

WD-42 wrote: post #8

Can anyone decipher the website and paste the ai;dr

I can lend a hand, after spending a painful 10s on the website (which really needs some thought put into it if this is a serious project).

If you have any moderate experience with hardware hacking, you would be aware of a handy little hardware device called the Bus Pirate, which has been around in various forms for many years. It is designed to be like a Swiss army knife for connecting to devices and inspecting and debugging them. For example, it can decode/encode various common (and uncommon) digital protocols that are used by chips and hardware devices to communicate with each other.

This project... it appears that someone has (with a significant amount of AI-assistance, if the website is anything to go by) produced firmware for ESP32 devices which aims to replicate the functionality of a Bus Pirate. This is notable because ESP32 boards are much cheaper and widely available.

Without looking much into it though, my instinct tells me that it would be significantly more limited than the purpose-built Bus Pirate hardware.

Re: ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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Post by geotp »

mschuster91 wrote: post #20
keysersoze33 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Read the github readme instead - much more to the point: https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate

Still heavily AI contaminated. The random bold formatting is as good a tell as it gets. It's high time that Github creates a disclosure flag for LLM usage - it's already mandated in the EU for some kinds of media.

Then GitHub will have to flag everyone. Take 100 professional developers today, and you can be sure all 100 use AI somewhere in their workflow.

Take a look at the codebase or just try it out, and make up your own mind

Re: ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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Post by _joel »

geotp wrote: post #27
mschuster91 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still heavily AI contaminated. The random bold formatting is as good a tell as it gets. It's high time that Github creates a disclosure flag for LLM usage - it's already mandated in the EU for some kinds of media.

Then GitHub will have to flag everyone. Take 100 professional developers today, and you can be sure all 100 use AI somewhere in their workflow. Take a look at the codebase or just try it out, and make up your own mind

Ok, stats to back up all 100% using AI please

Re: ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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Post by _joel »

bigiain wrote: post #17
voidUpdate wrote: post #13

"every protocol"? that's pretty impressive. We should stock up on them in case aliens ever come to visit, so we can understand their communications protocol

They still run Macintosh System 7 with wireless AppleTalk, right?

Over GRE tunnels
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