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Steal the memory and storage from their PC then make a run for it
Take apart their vape pens for the flashable MCUs, microphones, decent battery, and sweet magnets, and then bounce
microphones?
Yep! The heating coil voltage should only start ramping up when the user is inhaling, and how do you detect that they’re inhaling?
With a friggin microphone! The negative air pulls the drum up and that’s enough to send a signal to the MCU
You can see some examples here
oh i see, that one doesn’t have a microphone but rather three microphones 🤯
(previously via hackaday i saw someone turn a disposable vape into a webserver but the use of microphones in them is news to me, thanks)
Yep, lucky bastard got PUYA chip with a readily available flasher! Best I’ve gotten is an SC8 chip with maybe a UART (I’m still probing the pins)
Why don’t they do what MAF sensors in cars do? I.e. measure how fast a warm wire cools, which directly tells you how many molecules are hitting that wire and therefore how fast air is flowing past it?
I’m guessing it’s because microphones are cheap
Yep, cheap and cheerful chinese chips. You have to admire the resourceful ingenuity of it