Description: A personal website that collects my projects, musings, and miscellany side projects into a semi-coherent collection.
About Resources
“Smart” things are the wave of the future! Everyone wants some bit of tech that already exists, like a lightbulb, but now controlled through an app! Or at least, that’s what marketers have decided on. But sometimes the companies maintaining the app goes under, or decides to not support what you bought anymore, and your fancy smart lightbulb becomes, well, a $35 lightbulb.
I recently got my hands on an old bluetooth lightbulb that was first made in 2015. But the phone app to control it is clunky and ugly, and hasn’t been updated since 2018. So if I want to still use it now, the options are to have an unmaintaned, potential security-risk app on my phone, or not use it. Or , be me, since I’ve been itching to learn more about bluetooth low energy. In which case, it becomes time to do some reverse engineering!