Welcome to ColorLCDVape-RE Discussions! #1
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Since this post does say to comment below, I might as well be the first. Now I'm more interested in trying to reuse these debuggable / reprogrammable vapes as a sort of "roadkill development board", especially since most of the projects I'm interested in only need like 3 or 4 I/O pins. The potential of reusing the vape coil power circuit for a 12w / 24w flashlight on my projects is just a bonus. |
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Hey, I’m the Captain! Hahahaha! I've been a tinkerer all my life, but I was never able to go very deep with any of my projects because it’s hard to find people to receive guidance from for the things I want to do. For example, the vape screens I recently started pulling eventually led me here, but nowhere else lol. Really hoping I can get some answers and guidance for projects! |
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Managed to dump the Firmware off the Geek Bar Skyview, I couldn't get it to talk with the stuff provided by xbenkozx. I just used the already included ST32F0X.cfg and was able to get 2 way communication going. I did not have a USB C cable to use so I just soldered directly to the DIO, SCLK, 3V and ground and connected it to my STLink. |
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I noticed, thanks for the pull request! The tool by xbenkozx is hard-coded for the Nations N32G031 and its Flash controller addresses. Not all vapes expose the debug interface over the USB-C CC lines either. |
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This one does as well I believe, the Via's and the pads i'm using are sitting right under the USB-C port. |
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Just another note on this after reading your latest Issues posting. I also had the RST(reset pad hooked up to my STLink, not sure if it was required for the dump but for anyone trying and it not working for them. |
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Wife got an Airfuze Vape that's basically a smart watch built into a vape. excited to tear it apart when it's done. |
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Neat. I wonder how similar it will be to the Feed Sync I disassembled and mentioned in issue 9... Maybe even the same JL7012 SoC? |
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Yup same JL7012F6. Noticed googling it that its in aome smarth watches as well |
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I'm getting into robotics and electronics to work on cool projects with my kids. I've been going down a lot of rabbit holes, lately. One idea I had for one of the robotics projects we're working on would be using a robot vacuum someone was throwing away as a disc shaped head for the robot we are building as a home assistant. Originally, I planned on just putting some LEDs behind the "visor" smoked acrylic on the front of the robot sensor bar, and just take all the sensors out. I've been collecting these vapes, the RAZ 9000 and the RAZ 25000, mainly for the batteries, but recently I decided to look into possibly repurposing the displays for this robotics purpose. My end goal would be to have several of these displays mounted behind the visor, all able to work together to have the robot be able to emote and have status indicators and stuff, which would definitely be an interesting look, as I haven't really seen anything like it. I am hoping to learn from this project on how to actually reuse these displays, either with off the shelf boards the displays could be connected to, or reprogramming the board inside the vape to be able to take input from an Arduino or Raspberry Pi and dynamically animate the displays in realtime. Any help with this is definitely appreciated. I'm at the end of a 20 year career that had nothing to do with any of this kind of stuff, and I feel like a monkey trying to build a rocketship... |
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Oh, and my ideal outcome of getting involved here would be to turn the display into just a USB-C connected display. Possible? |
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It's certainly possible, just that there's limitations if one reuses the original vape board. The biggest hurdle to easy image updates is the requirement of an SWD dongle with connections to the USB-C CC pins, and alternative firmware for display control. |
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That's actually awesome. I've thought a bit about reusing the housings but have never actually done so. |
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