Has anyone ever seen this kind of snake in Maine? I found this video on my son's phone this am, he took it this past weekend at his grandparents house in Windsor. I always thought the color red was a dangerous snake type.
I got this free last year in the fall, it was on the side of the road and decided Id give it a try the following year. I used to race 420s and Lasers when I was a kid so I thought this might be fun to try out.
Its branded Alpha, made in Australia and says Competition on it. Its getting warm where I live and decided to pull it all out today.
There are no battens for the sail, I'm not sure if I can forgo that or not? It seems there are two centerboards, one is pretty beefy and the other rather small comparatively. The mast snaps nicely into the board and the corner of the sail (outhaul?) in the back corner has two cords that make sense to me how they will hook up. What I'm confused with is how the boom hooks to the mast. I think I'm missing a cord and perhaps and the proper knot knowledge I would tie to affix it snugly to the mast. In some videos I reviewed I saw models that had a clamp that secured the boom to the mast. I don't have that nor do I believe this model supports such a thing. On the mast, there are two gaps in the sail (and upper and lower section) where the boom could secure to - I think. Any advice how I can secure this boom to the mast?
Thank you in advance for any advice.
As someone that has bought a few fakes taking the uneducated route, it was nice to be a little more informed and grab a seemingly super legit model off Ali.
I'm wondering is anything particularly special about this particular model? I was pleasantly surprised to have a spot I can potentially solder a wifi chip in, 1GB of ram, the panel 4 (which I've read might be good?) and an SD card that is the best/fastest performing generic flash memory I've ever seen (see screenshot).
The board # is R36S-V22 2025-09-22
I'm curious about the DTB files, there is rk3326-rg351mp reference that is interesting. I'm assuming these are for use with a ROCKNIX os firmware? Maybe it was put on the sdcard erroneously - I recovered some deleted files on this sd card, there were error.logs with two separate fails. Each log just said "dtb load fail" then finally a "dtb loaded" success.
There is also a file in /boot called Image, its 10.8 MB, I plan to extract this but a quick binwalk had a couple items of interest:
$ binwalk Image
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
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0 0x0 Linux kernel ARM64 image, load offset: 0x80000, image size: 12566528 bytes, little endian, 4k page size,
174304 0x2A8E0 SHA256 hash constants, little endian
7757824 0x766000 ELF, 64-bit LSB shared object, version 1 (SYSV)
8096704 0x7B8BC0 DES SP2, little endian
8097216 0x7B8DC0 DES SP1, little endian
8126232 0x7BFF18 DER SHA384 hash
8126256 0x7BFF30 DER SHA256 hash
8126320 0x7BFF70 DER SHA1 hash
8126336 0x7BFF80 DER MD5 hash
8129296 0x7C0B10 LZO compressed data
8148032 0x7C5440 CRC32 polynomial table, little endian
8296644 0x7E98C4 ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ec, hash: none
8300300 0x7EA70C ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ef, hash: none
8300508 0x7EA7DC ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ef, hash: none
8302796 0x7EB0CC ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ef, hash: none
8303004 0x7EB19C ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ef, hash: none
8307164 0x7EC1DC ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ef, hash: none
8307372 0x7EC2AC ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ef, hash: none
8309868 0x7ECC6C ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ef, hash: none
8310076 0x7ECD3C ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ef, hash: none
8311532 0x7ED2EC ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ef, hash: none
8311740 0x7ED3BC ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ef, hash: none
8323180 0x7F006C ESP Image (ESP32): segment count: 1, flash mode: QUIO, flash speed: 40MHz, flash size: 1MB, entry address: 0x1ec, hash: none
8667282 0x844092 Unix path: /var/run/rpcbind.sock
8671186 0x844FD2 Unix path: /var/run/gssproxy.sock
8768376 0x85CB78 Unix path: /dev/vc/0
8805688 0x865D38 Ubiquiti firmware additional data, name: OMBAT, size: 1936224114 bytes, size2: 1953390957 bytes, CRC32: 0
8851898 0x8711BA Ubiquiti firmware header, third party, ~CRC32: 0x4C450000, version: "_HANDLES"
8887929 0x879E79 Ubiquiti firmware header, third party, ~CRC32: 0x554E4400, version: "_FILES"
8928752 0x883DF0 xz compressed data
9011154 0x897FD2 Unix path: /sys/kernel/debug/dri.
9011278 0x89804E Unix path: /sys/kernel/debug/dri
9018862 0x899DEE Unix path: /sys/kernel/debug/dri/%s/%s
9018982 0x899E66 Unix path: /sys/kernel/debug/dri/%s
9019089 0x899ED1 Unix path: /sys/kernel/debug/dri.
9112632 0x8B0C38 Unix path: /lib/firmware/updates/4.4.189
9126202 0x8B413A MP3 ID3 tag,
9175191 0x8C0097 Copyright string: "Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>"
9236064 0x8CEE60 Unix path: /sys/firmware/devicetree/base
9236981 0x8CF1F5 Unix path: /sys/firmware/fdt': CRC check failed
9323145 0x8E4289 Neighborly text, "neighbor table overflow!->lock)->rlock"
10122104 0x9A7378 gzip compressed data, maximum compression, from Unix, last modified: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (null date)
10730776 0xA3BD18 YAFFS filesystem root entry, little endian, type file, v1 root directory
Two items - gssproxy and rpcbind are interesting to me. They can be legitimately used to relate the device to NAS or other credential based storage on a network. They can also be used as a vector for back doors. I havent put this on my home network yet, but curious if anyone else has looked at the security of this Chinese devices? I may be being overly paranoid about this, but there are remnants of some Active directory and password cracking tools in the hidden System Volume Information folder.
The embedded Ubiquiti firmware makes me wonder if they've used Unifi technology for the WiFi module, or just stolen code from them (more likely).
Anyway, this handheld's worth a second look. For $40 it beats the snot out of the el cheapo clones I've acquired and struggled with in the past. This ran everything right out of the box and lightening fast. I'm reviewing different OS's to check out. Any OS suggestions or general advice is welcome.
I did make a dump of the sdcard if anyone's interested, seems like its a little bit unique from the standard fare?