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Re:Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production by yonatan8070 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:16AM (#43854589)
Let's say the chip was lockable, what would prevent someone from using a bit of hot air and flux from just swapping out your chip with whatever?
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Re:Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production by saidinesh5 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:50AM (#43854767)
The firmware that's missing on that new chip
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Re:Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production by bpye on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:11AM (#43854897)
That's why you force a full erase to clear the non programmable bit?
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Re:Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production by user32489318 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:39PM (#43860880)
It takes little skill, 15USD soldering iron to solder 4-5 through holes wires, connect 10 usd programmer and flash a new firmware. Investing in a (de)soldering station, with the risk of pulling all the neighboring components, breadboard/something to plugin your new controller or memory into for programming and what not? I’m not sure if I’d go through that trouble
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