Reverse engineering the firmware meant soldering wires to UART headers in an awkward spot. With Codex it took about 10 hours; without it, they say, it would have taken many more weekends.
Result Works fine now, after awkward UART soldering
“Took about 10 hours and it now works fine.”
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They used Codex to reverse engineer the firmware of their electric skateboard in order to unbrick it, which required soldering wires directly to the board’s UART headers in a very awkward location.
The job took about 10 hours and the skateboard now works fine, which they say would have taken significantly more weekends without Codex, given their limited experience with skateboard firmware.
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