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JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil

39 pointsby hasheddanlast Tuesday at 7:30 PM7 commentsview on HN

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jakedatatoday at 12:35 AM

I bought a Pinecil so I could run it off a battery. I really came to appreciate the excellent temperature control and rapid heating, and use it instead of my soldering station for jobs away from the bench.

I have felt absolutely no need to touch the firmware. I try to forget that it is more powerful than my first three personal computers combined. Plug in, turn on, get hot. It meets my needs and exceeded my expectations. I suppose I could run a website from it if I wanted to make a point but as long as it doesn't require wifi and phone home to verify the license and leak my biometric data I expect to use it until I wear it out.

zoobabyesterday at 9:25 PM

Jlink is closed source.

Better use dirtyJTAG on an rp2040.

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Sweepiyesterday at 10:06 PM

Good to see an "organic" J-Link + RISC-V use case :)