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What is an EUC? And also what kinda crash are you referring to? i rather have a memory issue than crash my e-scooter (and myself) haha
in this context, it likely refers to an electric unicycle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_unicycle )
We need to free up Bosch systems. They use lots of open source libs, but they close the whole chain (like spare batteries) so that you cannot plug external batteries from other suppliers.
I now realize it would be easier to write the whole thing wholesale, but.. uhh, it's no small feat, and I have a job soooo...
Bosch should open their shit, it might save them, because it seems the chinese with Avinox will eat their dinner in a couple of years. They seem to be pretty litigious, they went after a forum that documented initiatives to reverse (well, they also hosted pirated diagnostics sw but.. yeah)
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No, you can’t. Just because you can pull the lever on an LLM enough times and get something that works doesn’t mean you’ve done the work. Doing the work implies learning and transferable skills, none of which you get by prompting an LLM.
Yes they can. At the end of the day, whether the food was made in a microwave oven or by a Michelin starred chef, the user is fed. Doing the work means that the work happened. Anything else is secondary.
Reverse engineering like this is black magic to me. The writeup is good. It's detailed and I could follow along with what the author was doing even though I'm too stupid to ever attempt something like this. Nice job author. I liked bullet 2 in the Introduction.
I wrote a blog posts where I first did it the traditional way and then, a few months later, the lazy way: https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/04/12/AMIQ-License-Key-Ge....
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You only notice the ones that aren't safe. How would you know if someone bypassed the restrictions if they were riding it safely?
Because if they are riding it safely, there would be no need to bypass the restrictions. There is reason for speed limits, they are not there to f--k with people for fun.
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No, you can’t. Just because you can pull the lever on an LLM enough times and get something that works doesn’t mean you’ve done the work. Doing the work implies learning and transferable skills, none of which you get by prompting an LLM.
Yes they can. At the end of the day, whether the food was made in a microwave oven or by a Michelin starred chef, the user is fed. Doing the work means that the work happened. Anything else is secondary.
Garbage in, Garbage out. There are minimum expectations on user like ability to source proper materials, use them correctly and an ability to verify/check the result for problems. More important if it's something you want to eat or ride!
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Having been on the flip side of this divide in the past, there really are a lot of potential safety and reliability problems when using random third party versions of components. While I'm sure there are strong financial incentives to constrain supply, there are also some other strong reasons as well. Also it's very expensive to actually make an ecosystem compared to a close one. The best way to incentivize manufactu…
> there really are a lot of potential safety and reliability problems when using random third party versions of components. What are you talking about? If a seller sells you random junk that causes safety issue, they are liable of the damage like the OEM would if their product was bad. Then, if the seller is in a jurisdiction where you can't hope to sue, then it's either your problem for picking this random seller on…
It’d be negligent for anyone to release a product like this without locking down the FW.
Many years ago, we did exactly that: our product had FW update support and our biggest concern was a rogue hacker creating a package that would brick the product.
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Pretty much anything hardware based is like this. Everything is 100% closed source and bolted down such that inspecting it is outright impossible without extensive reverse engineering.
I believe one of the feasibilities we have with electric locomotion is the standardization of components: electric motors, motor controllers, batteries and battery chargers. These being interchangeable will lead to lower costs through competition and more innovation. It's disappointing that manufacturers are moving the other way to enable vendor lock-in. But only one manufacturer has to jump the fence and the others…
Those characteristics, like safe discharge rate, capacity, projected cycle count, are all things that manufactures exaggerate or get wrong.
I don’t think there’s any way that consumers can ever be informed enough to have an efficient market in products such as those
Reverse engineering like this is black magic to me. The writeup is good. It's detailed and I could follow along with what the author was doing even though I'm too stupid to ever attempt something like this. Nice job author. I liked bullet 2 in the Introduction.
Reverse engineering the way they do it is very satisfying and time consuming. If you want the same results but without the sweat, LLMs are the way to go now. They eat this kind of stuff for lunch. You could literally ask one for a table with all the CAN bus messages and it would figure it out. I wrote a blog posts where I first did it the traditional way and then, a few months later, the lazy way: https://tomverbeure…
But for the rest: Yes. They will be eaten alive by the latest generation of LLMs. I use DS-Flash 4.1 a lot for this. A big helper.