r/M5Stack

It has been in backorder for a bit, but last Saturday it was delivered and I got to work immediately with it!

The plan was to build a wardriving capable device like my esp32 Marauder can. During development of the program I ran into a serious flaw that prevents me from writing away the data to the micro SD card and even a dozen of iterations further I concluded that this is an issue on M5stack their side in the firmware. So like any decent developer, I reported it to their GitHub.

👉 https://github.com/m5stack/uiflow-micropython/issues/94

Now this didn't stop me from moving further! I decided to build-in a file limit to write away the .CSV file with the registered networks onto the device itself. I limited it to 9.5mb since the total memory on it is 16mb and this would leave plenty of overhang towards the software I was building.

I'm still awaiting the arrival of the GPS module, but that didn't held me from testing it in the field already to see how capable it already was and turned out to be.

I've been working on a UI/firmware for a little while and it's finally ready to show other people. Deck//OS is a cyberpunk-themed UI for the M5Stack Tab5 that has an SSH client, markdown notes reader/writer/interpolator, full-feature calculator, weather, mp3 player, and file uplink so you can transfer and view files from a normal browser on the same network.

I was super excited to get the Tab5 but I couldn't find any firmware that made it overall useful, so I just took the things I'd use all the time and stuck them together.

To be fair, I did have Claude help me with the design aspect, I suck at UI design (completely), and I really wanted something that looked impressive.

So, try it out. There's a web flasher and OTA updates so you get the latest version when I release it. Releases are encryption-key protected so there is as low a risk to bad updates as possible without running the risk of bricking any devices. You can verify encryption key via Terminal window or the settings page in the UI.

I really hope ya'll dig it, and feel free to list any bugs or suggestions via github.

https://github.com/hey-its-brian/tab5-cyberdeck

Hey there, it’s me again, this time I was searching for a fast BLE and WiFi Wardrive firmware, nothing really good out there. Two weeks of coding and lots of testing, there it is:

https://github.com/ChrisDaCrunk/ChrisDaDriver

Feel free to check it out, Lora cap needed, sd optional(no csv save)!

Works with Launcher (off->on restart needed)