Picture of control panel with red, green and yellow buttons. The top row of buttons spell "DONT PANIC"

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   Poul-Henning Kamp (bsdphk@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Jul-2025 04:13:22 JST Poul-Henning Kamp

   I am a sucker for opto-electronics, so got this discarded kit (ex CNN's London studio?)

   Each button has a 36x24 LCD display and red+green LEDS.

   Well-designed hardware: ColdFire (=68k) CPU, plenty of RAM, plenty of FLASH, serial port, ethernet etc.

   Firmware ? Not so impressive, but very easy to get rid of:

   Anybody can flash new firmware from ethernet: No userid, no password, all you need to know is the IP# and how they botched their CRC-16 implementation.

   Now it runs #MicroPython :-)