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It took a long road, but today I found the first "in-the-wild" usage of ESP32 BT/WiFi controllers in medical devices.
The quality of those devices is utterly ridiculous and "well"-designed, I consider it an insult to the whole ESP product line.
I just posted the script with all the content I intended to talk about in my #39c3 talk last weekend on Github:
https://github.com/roll2own/m5squared-resources/blob/main/39c3-talk/39c3-talk-spoken-text.md
It's a lot of text, but might be a good read and has more context to the history of the source code, the concepts, social/ethic questionability of DRM in mobility aids, etc.
Apparently folks are now vibe-coding wheelchair control reverse engineering and scripts for accessing config etc.
Including false assumptions, hallucinated constants, inconsistencies across the code base. All the patterns sloppy AI code has.
I just don't understand why. The speed and amount of littering the public internet with barely-working-to-not-working code and docs is scary.
Technical debt as a service.
Mood: listening carefully to the computer's fans spinning duration and pattern to determine if build of firmware succeeds.
Trostpreis: ich hab zwar Influenza, aber immerhin nichts was mit Influencern zu tun hat.
Bei mir gibt es Fieber statt Filter.
Leaking not released product names via Certificate Transparency logs is apparently still a thing.
Someone did not their "Obacht" they do in other places.
*technical debt accumulation through writing hundreds of lines of code without any documentation intensifies*
The temptation of having a lot of quick wins in a PoC vs. the tedious work of implementing a proper, reusable ESP32 component first.
The struggle is real.
Self-OH: Running Kubernetes services is more "Infrastructure as Yaml" than "Infrastructure as Code".
Staring at hexadecimals, Bluetooth LE edition.
The jadx is doing jadx things again.
Funny Bluetooth quirks: holding the ESP32 in your hand's palm increases response time from previously maximum of ~200ms up to nearly two seconds.
But only on the wheelchair drive of both that's farther away from the ESP.