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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 peter_d_sherman » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:18 PM UTC

Looks like a tremendously useful tool to do such things as BIOS reflashing (i.e., Coreboot, Libreboot, Canoeboot) on one's own hardware.

In theory, any Single Board Computer (Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, FPGA-based-board, etc.) or microcontroller-based circuit board with GPIO pins that can handle the speed/frequency and the voltage of what's being communicated with, could work (if the appropriate software/protocols are implemented), but ESP32 microcontroller boards, being as cheap and ubiquitous as they are, are great candidates for this task.

Anyway, ESP32 Bit Pirate looks very promising in this arena!

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

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Post by Arrowmaster » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 7:37 PM UTC

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

Is this a professional project you created on behalf of your employer or your own business for monetary gain?

Just because you are forced to use AI on the clock doesn't mean you have to for personal projects.

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