[KwartzLab] Buzzcard

[John Van Ostrand]

How do you thing a dump/reprogram would be done? There are 4 contacts that I imagine are for that purpose, but would it be a standard protocol?

----- Original Message -----
> U1 is probably memory that holds the data/code for the microcontroller
> (blob).
> 
> 
> Shouldn't be hard to dump/reprogram with an Arduino.
> 
> 
> jb
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:11 PM, John Van Ostrand < john at netdirect.ca
> > wrote:
> 
> 
> Attached is an image of the card. The blob is probably hiding the
> actually IC.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > I meant to write PIC18F2550
> >
> > > Cool. Did you open it up to see which microcontroller they're
> > > using.
> > > I've
> > > built similar HID devices with the Microchip PIC2250 with built in
> > > USB
> > > 2.0.
> > >
> > >> I just received an http://www.Buzzcard.com from Computer
> > >> Associates.
> > >> It's
> > >> a credit card with a USB plug. Thinking it was a storage device
> > >> that I
> > >> might be able to co-opt for another purpose I put it in my Linux
> > >> desktop.
> > >> It typed a string of numbers into the shell I was in! This isn't
> > >> a
> > >> storage
> > >> device. It registers as a keyboard device and actually types into
> > >> your
> > >> computer.
> > >>
> > >> We scrounged up a Windows PC here and opened the Run dialog and
> > >> launched
> > >> the URL above. We tried it in Mac OS X and it launched a browser
> > >> and
> > >> filled in the URL.
> > >> I'm curious to know more about this. Anyone else interested in
> > >> playing
> > >> with this?
> > >>
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> 564 Weber St. N. Unit 12, Waterloo, ON N2L 5C6
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Net Direct Inc. 
564 Weber St. N. Unit 12, Waterloo, ON N2L 5C6 
Ph: 866-883-1172 x5102 
Fx: 519-883-8533 

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