Comment by cjaackie Comment by cjaackie 12 hours ago 3 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News underrated comment, probably the way to go with an older chip and under 1k volumes.
Copy Link Rzor 11 hours ago Collapse Comment - And not even that hard to find: "alibaba MSM8916 LTE" on Google and lo and behold: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/TIANJIE-Qualcomm-MSM8...$5.92 each for 500-2999 orders. What a time to be alive. Reply View | 2 replies Copy Link greenavocado 10 hours ago Parent Collapse Comment - How much work is it to rip one of these open and reprogram? Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link WorldPeas 9 hours ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - probably 2 screws at most or some glue/snaps, then put a jtag brush over the contacts, do some sort of unit test and you have a unit. Could take a few hours with a motorized screwdriver and a simple specialized CLI program for programming/testing Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link greenavocado 10 hours ago Parent Collapse Comment - How much work is it to rip one of these open and reprogram? Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link WorldPeas 9 hours ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - probably 2 screws at most or some glue/snaps, then put a jtag brush over the contacts, do some sort of unit test and you have a unit. Could take a few hours with a motorized screwdriver and a simple specialized CLI program for programming/testing Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link WorldPeas 9 hours ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - probably 2 screws at most or some glue/snaps, then put a jtag brush over the contacts, do some sort of unit test and you have a unit. Could take a few hours with a motorized screwdriver and a simple specialized CLI program for programming/testing Reply View | 0 replies
And not even that hard to find: "alibaba MSM8916 LTE" on Google and lo and behold: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/TIANJIE-Qualcomm-MSM8...
$5.92 each for 500-2999 orders. What a time to be alive.