AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@Stemist It would be worth the money, I swear that guitars gain character as they age. Even that old American Strat had a golden tone but it was also the unmodified version of what Van Halen used and the same with the Amp. The church also had a Hammond b2. It was a Pentecostal Church so every service was a jam band practice. XD

Once again I'm stricken with terrible insomnia. I think I had a good sleep 3 or 4 days ago. The passage of time is distorted and memory is running on a swap partition.

On to my project, it's going to run slow and likely at a reduced capacity. This particular MCU is going to require a lot of development to get working. I've been looking into what documentation I could find about the MCU and the firmware that I intend to port forward to it. The firmware can be flashed one piece at a time after I break whatever security I find. I also need to use a copy of Windows for some of the work and that's what I'm waiting on. Allegedly, flashing the firmware from AMD powered computers is more complicated and I might have to deal with trusted platform garbage.

The work is still progressing and I'll get it working, produce documentation and release code that I wrote.

@Stemist
Lower your play height and slowly adjust at the bridge. It sounds like the 12th is the point where the deformation to fret is either too much or too little. With the style of guitar pictured, I have little experience outside of semi hollow bodies. I played Super Strats and the knife edge bridge system.

I've also noticed different properties in fret alloys. Some are softer and others are quite tough. I've never had to refret but was able to get away with a light polishing of the frets.

@PawelK I'm a Mathematician and while the statement is true for a large set of people; a Mathematician will have the largest burden. Serendipity can make the difference between nothing and something. If Mandelbrot hadn't pursued a very odd sequence and noticed the reoccurring patterns, his work wouldn't have been seen as more than madness.

@trinsec It's more for FLOSS but yes. I've formed the Induction Hypothesis and all that remains is to prove it from the base case to i + 1.

I guess it is actually for Science. Previous attempts with this were largely performed by academia.

I believe that my original goal was to document how the flashing of firmware takes place on harddrives and I'll definitely be doing this with code.

A Mathematician once said that being a Mathematician was similar to bipolar disorder. At times, one feels like a complete idiot and unable to grasp what they are after. Other times, one feels like they have reached a new level of conciousness after a discovery.

I'm going to get all the information off my test drive and do some more investigating.

Next I will begin to port existing open source firmware to the S11.

Finally I will go full send and use a flashing tool, or perhaps make my own to keep it FLOSS, to flash the experimental firmware to the drive.

I believe that I have enough information to make it functional. I'm going to need to adapt everything to work in Linux too. If I mess up, then I will learn even more.

If I had to estimate how much is done, I would have to say that I'm approximately 60% ready to flash.

I recently realized that my project could be extended to more MCUs than I intended. It's within my ability and I don't see a reason why I shouldn't continue.

Not much progress on my project today but I did manage to fix my PocketCHIP. It is perhaps the most powerful flashing tool that I have.

@lupyuen Very good!

I hope I can port some older firmware to my SDD. Everything is coming together well but the firmware was part of a development kit. I have one shot to get this firmware correct and flash it correctly. No pressure, right?

@Placholdr MIT Open CourseWare, it's really good and free.

@freemo That seems to be Maxima by definition. A Global Maxima too.

@Amikke Kids will grow up as they always have. I don't feel sad for the children, I'm almost envious of the challenges that they will have the opportunity to solve and the world they will create.

Only a little bit more Reverse Engineering work left to go. I just need to find the exact instruction set and security checks that will be bypassed.

I found an old open source project that replaced the firmware on the previous generation of drives by another manufacturer. It's not going to work perfectly as is and will require porting.

I expect that it's not going to work perfectly or reliably at first. No idea when it will be done.