2021-12-27 –, c-base Language: English
E-scooters?
Pretty cool tech, but too closed source in our opinion.
Let's liberate them!
None are free until they all are free.
Did you ever trip and fall because an e-scooter was blocking the hallway in your hackspace?
Sure, thing! Right?
Next time this happens, you will know how to recycle those parts.
One day we got a TIER Gen4 / OKAI ES400B in totally legal ways and decided to disassemble it; both hardware and software.
We found out how these things work in detail and gathered a lot of interesting knowledge along the way.
Finally we will come up with a nice solution to refurbish those scooters once they are off the street.
E-scooters are sold online or at city-auctions and you might want to use them without involving the original manufacturers GSM IOT uplink.
Expect a nice detailed walk-trough with various topics covering:
- Blackbox electronics reverse engineering
- Introduction to CAN Bus
- Arduino compatible programming
- Some python
- FOSS CAN Tools
- Useful Hardware we found along the way
CW: May contain traces of anticapitalism.
Born on Terra some years ago, living here ever since.