Articles tagged “IM-me”
IM-me wireless terminal
A recent post on Hack a Day alerted me the to the IM-me, a device designed to be used with a web-based IM service that communicated with the PC via a USB wireless adaptor. According to Hunter Davis, the body of the messages were sent between the PC and the IM-me are in plain text. This sounded like a good start to me, so I picked one up from Amazon UK for £7.49 (they're now available for even less than that). You get a lot of electronics for that price; there's a CC1110F32 microcontroller inside (the chips inside the device and its wireless adaptor are clearly marked – no nameless blob of epoxy that you might have expected from the price) and Dave has poked around the insides of his and has mapped the contact pads exposed via the battery compartment to the debug port on the microcontroller.