Restoring a Zeno zit zaper tip was one of the first published ‘hacks’ using the Bus Pirate a few years ago. It’s still a super popular post that gets a ton of hits. Here’s some updates: Was jacking around with the Zeno again recently and figured out (as far as I can tell) how to […]
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Zeno zit zapper tip reset
The Zeno is an acne treatment device with disposable tips that are electronically limited to 45 or 60 uses. Matt did a system teardown that revealed a Cypress cy8c27443 microcontroller in the main unit and a 128byte I2C EEPROM in the tip. He used the Bus Pirate to sniff I2C traffic going to the EEPROM […]