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| reagle:
Just posted the writeup of my Sonicare toothbrush repair. http://kuzyatech.com/philips-sonicare-hx6710-teardown-and-repair Spoiler alert- I can't believe they don't conformally coat these things! |
| amyk:
I can't believe it has a PIC! A toothbrush needs 14KB of program memory...? :o But certainly, it would be even more surprising if it was an AVR. Did you see if there were any interesting signals on the serial port? If I were you my curiosity would at least make me try probing and dumping the firmware, if only to see if they'd put some sort of self-destruct counter in there (unlikely, however.) |
| george graves:
It would have been hilarious if there was a 328p DIP in there running an arduino boot loader. Now *that* would have been funny. |
| Stonent:
I think when Dave did his toothbrush teardown he found a microcontroller in it. |
| amyk:
That was a 4-bit mask ROM (3kB) controller with 40 bytes of RAM, something more expected for this application. |
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