AirPort Express 2G booting up while connected to a bus pirate

by ipatch 6 years ago

macOS ◆ tmux-256color ◆ fish 511 views

This is a short video of me 🙋‍♀️ experimenting with a Bus Pirate connected an AirPort router through a UART interface and recording the boot sequence of the AirPort router booting up.

TODO

[ ] figure out why ? question marks are being displayed to the screen 🤷‍♂️

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