Hacking Hardware Picofly - a HWFLY switch modchip

[FruithatMods]

I'm sure you'd find an enormous number of people would pay 10€ for a functional Pico-based glitch chip.

That's not what I asked but ok.

 

[binkinator]

Who here would buy one of these chips? Would you pay 10€ for one?

Well, let's see, considering I already paid $9 (including shipping) for two of them, yah!

 

[vittorio]

just ordered 2 rp2040 for 9 euros

 

[binkinator]

Link to the pico ID documentation. It is the first result in startpage.com

https://raspberrypi.github.io/pico-sdk-doxygen/group__pico__unique__id.html

I hear ya, I hear ya.

...but right now I'm neck deep in blink.c

 

[Tafty]

Who here would buy one of these chips? Would you pay 10€ for one?

Yes because it's still way cheaper then the other options, but ideally it would be better for the community if we could open source this so anyone can buy and program their own.

Also is there somewhere to buy from now? I could invest in a couple to try and speed this process up

 

[FruithatMods]

Agreed. An open source version would be the best way to go about this! A couple of my mod contacts have an idea about how to go about this!.. I will keep everyone updated as there might be a way to accelerate the development.

Right now the picofly is only available privately in a country without easy access to the west. It appears like the dev stopped making them and there are only those in circulation which he has programmed in the past.

There are also a few people who managed to reverse the chip and a few beta testers. That's what zecoxao was writing about on his twitter.

Post automatically merged: Jan 28, 2023

Don't get your hopes up about his version though since he discontinued that as reported previously. The chip is very real though!

 

[saladus]

is anyone able to contact zecoxao? if the original dev dropped the project maybe he could dump and share the firmware
edit: I remember he was talking about a bricking bug, but it'd be better to have code that needs to be improved rather than code that's encrypted and might have that same problems

 

[FruithatMods]

The code he was referring to will not be released because community members were bothering them too much.

 

[saladus]

well from what I've heard, the original dev was bothered too much, no mention of zecoxao being annoyed or anything. he has a working chip, it'd be worth a shot

 

[FruithatMods]

No, the original dev doesn't care. The dev that was working on the clone is the one who was bothered by the community.

 

[saladus]

first of all, i have no idea what you are talking about, second of all, who cares? it just matters if zecoxao would be willing to share the firmware

 

[vittorio]

i spoke to zeco and i said the encrypted fw

 

[saladus]

i spoke to zeco and i said the encrypted fw

wdym?

 

[vittorio]

i told zeco that the firmware is there but it is encrypted with the raspberry id

 

[saladus]

that wasn't what i was talking about. zeco has a beta version of the pico modchip. what i was saying is if someone could ask him to dump its firmware and post it here.

 

[vittorio]

I don't think it has a beta version, I can ask, I know it was a friend of his who had it but he never replied

 

[TheStonedModder]

I don't think it has a beta version, I can ask, I know it was a friend of his who had it but he never replied

He’s not gonna reply to you lol

 

[impeeza]

I'm surprised the ID structure is not in the (636 page!) data sheet:
https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.pdf

That's a BIG bitch! -Duce Bigelow

it's because the ID is not on the 2040 Chip is taken from the external NOR memory.

 

[vittorio]

the friend did not reply to zeco

 

[saladus]

i was gonna say that but i didn't want to sound mean . our best bet would be linuxares