Looking into the Nintendo Alarmo (and running Doom)
While everyone was waiting on news for the successor of the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo released the Alarmo. A small plastic alarm clock that can wake one up with sounds from ones favorite Nintendo games.
Gary’s hacking stuff decided to get one and look deeper into how it works.
“The Alarmo has a small 2.8-inch LCD at the front, a back and notification button on top, and a dial on top which can be turned and pressed to act as a confirm button. The dial also includes an RGB LED. What makes it different from other alarm clocks? It has 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to download software updates and additional themes, and it comes with a 24GHz mmWave presence sensor to react to your movements.”
Inside there is an STM32H730ZBI6 MCU and a KIOXIA 4GB eMMC.
Check out how the Alarmo was hacked in the post here.
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