What to do with this after you have finished destroying flash chips?

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What to do with this after you have finished destroying flash chips?

May 28, 2010, 04:11:23 am

Well my first thought was to use it as an external display for a pc.
CPU load etc.

but im sure others can come up with better idea's than that.

Re: What to do with this after you have finished destroying flash chips?

Reply #1 – May 28, 2010, 10:08:43 am

I'm going to put in a 'slow' firmware and leave it running on my shelf. If it really does hit 10M than it could go half a year at once per second, or 19 years at once per minute. I like the idea of a solid state machine that sits there, just slowly eating away at itself

Re: What to do with this after you have finished destroying flash chips?

Reply #2 – May 28, 2010, 11:20:12 am

how about this,

hook it to your pc and have it do a write every time you hit a key. so you can work at destroying it slowly.

Im sure 2 million+ keystrokes wont take you to long

Re: What to do with this after you have finished destroying flash chips?

Reply #3 – May 28, 2010, 01:40:37 pm

Hmmm, this might belong in the corrections/suggestions thread as well ...

The PIC18F26J50 (used in the OLS) has PPS, is available in a 28-pin DIP and looks pin-compatible with the PIC18F2550 ...
once the IÂ²C is all SiO2 tear out the F2550, the 7805 and maybe a few resistors, then reconfigure it for 3.3V operation
(i.e. LM7833, LM2937-3.3) and some of the resistors and toast SPI flash chips, SD cards ... maybe even connect it to the
PIC webserver and host the progress on the internet

Or remod it into a chess computer - the source code is in C and freely available, porting it from an ATmega8 to a PIC18F2550/24J50
should be doable ... buttons/keyboard could be connected via the IÂ²C interface once the IÂ²C flash has been retired.

Or make a contest for projects based on the flash destroyer ... make it famous like the WOM back in the 70s!

Re: What to do with this after you have finished destroying flash chips?

Reply #4 – May 28, 2010, 10:31:41 pm

I think it is a wonderful little pic eval board. The use of throughole components is much of a help

Will it be using the usb as a seed for a random number generator to predict the next lottery jackpot?

Re: What to do with this after you have finished destroying flash chips?

Reply #5 – June 06, 2010, 08:33:26 pm

How about turning it into a frequency meter?

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Reply #6 – November 29, 2012, 05:24:51 am

Attach a very bright uv light to it and test those old eproms.

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Reply #7 – November 30, 2012, 07:14:49 pm

is it hardware compatible with serial ram as is?

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Reply #8 – December 05, 2012, 07:59:54 am

I think it might work with the microchip serial SRAMs. They are very similar, but they are also SPI not I2C like the chips in the flash destroyer.

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Reply #9 – December 05, 2012, 03:19:14 pm

[quote author="ian"]I think it might work with the microchip serial SRAMs. They are very similar, but they are also SPI not I2C like the chips in the flash destroyer.[/quote]

looks like it would need to be bit banged