Someone smarter than me, is this something I can use to try and hack my handy? Is this a serial port?
It looks like PWM for a fan but thats clearly not the case here.
Handy is servo based, so itβs not going to be a PWM. I have yet to see someone create a diagram/schematic of the handy internals, or many pictures of them. So there is a chance that P5/4 pin area in the top of the board could be a testing header due to its area proximity or even for programming the board.
Networking is quite fitting β¦ UART is like an old, dial up modem, you connect to it with the right baud rate and it talks to you, like a putty/ssh shell β¦ sometimes it does not even want a login β¦ more of a debug feature β¦ and the scary part is, a lot of things use it, webcams, door cams β¦ etc β¦ (personally i use dirt cheap UART to USB adaptors) Of course you could hook up an oscilloscope and stuff β¦ but really, just trying a few baud rates works 90% of times
does it use standard baud rates like switches or a different set?
if its likely to use 115200 i should be good to try bruteforcing different baud rates.
Most of the standard rates are around 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400, 460800, 921600 baud, but in the end you never know until you β¦ hook up β¦ just make sure if you decide to toy around, connect the ground pin to the same device you try to talk to β¦
Yeah, basically UART is just an oldschool port to connect to whatever β¦ its old, insecure, but it still works β¦ (edit) as i said, you can still find it in modern things, webcams, door cams, heck even mainboards to some degree, its simply widely used to debug stuff
Is it hard to put back together again? I mean i really dont care about glue or stuff β¦ i broke in enough devices β¦ But seriously, you could be onto something there β¦ you can buy dirt cheap uart to usb adaptors at like amazon or wherever you want β¦ its quite interesting once you get into it β¦
Yeah, i kinda wish i could send scripts to the Handy without online presence and stuff, thats why your find sort of got me interested β¦ but yeah, its not exactly rocket science unless they obfuscate a lot β¦