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Engineer maps Bose connector pins to fix brother's device
Original: So I have this mission... It's a long story, if I tell it all, but BLUF, I helped build this device, now have to reverse
A person who helped build a Bose device says they must now reverse-engineer their own hardware to repair a copy belonging to their brother. The first step was mapping connector pins to color-coded conductors, and they note that Bose has a habit of inventing its own connector layouts, making repairs harder than they need to be.
Why now: Repair and reverse-engineering stories resonate with right-to-repair frustration over proprietary hardware design
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