logoalt Hacker News

jsharftoday at 12:09 AM5 repliesview on HN

Related story, while applying a firmware update to my Kawai CA49 piano, I bricked it due to flashing the wrong file (The process was broken, and I got desperate and tried something stupid, which bricked the piano). Claude walked me through looking for signs of life, and since OTA from the phone app wasn't working for me, it downloaded the Kawai Android APK, decompiled the Java, figured out the hardcoded key used for encrypting the firmware update. Extracted the piano firmware update, decrypted it, and then wrote a flashing script to program the piano from my laptop via bluetooth. My piano was back to working within an hour.


Replies

idiotsecanttoday at 5:49 AM

I can't imagine where we are headed. You understand every step of what it did and can appreciate the complexity but it'll only take a few generations for this to become something like magic to the tech priests beseeching the machine spirits for blessings

show 7 replies
ewalk153today at 12:28 PM

This is truly remarkable. Congratulations!

Uptrendatoday at 9:23 AM

yeah thats mind blowing, ngl

jazzyjacksontoday at 4:43 AM

[flagged]

Galustoday at 1:48 AM

[flagged]