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Nico
@nicom
First to guess what this is and what it was used for wins 5 $USDC ! Just found this small device I built 15y ago. If was stored in an meds tube. Guess what it is and what it was used for and I send 5 $USDC on your Warpcast wallet.
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Nico
@nicom
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Nico
@nicom
To self attest my honesty on this challenge and determine the winner transparently, here is the answer, encrypted for anyone to verify that I did not change it afterwards. I will provide the key and info to decrypt as soon as we have a winner or in 5 days on Thursday May 22 at 1200 UTC. No answer will be able to win after the release of the decryption infos. If we have no winner, well, that's sad, but will try another challenge later.
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Helene
@elnglr
Okay control engineer(to be) here... this circuit is likely to control something, and there is also relay. Are you switching on and off something? The green led must indicate sth too. Don't tell me that it was a manual reboot machine ahahahah
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Dean Pierce ๐จโ๐ป๐๐
@deanpierce.eth
Here's what ChatGPT o3 and 4.5 came up with. Since it was with medical stuff, I'd guess it was controlling some sort of alarm or siren, maybe based on biomedical data coming from the computer it was plugged into. https://chatgpt.com/share/6828fe98-f6cc-8003-8ddd-468c2833e9d1
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Olubebe
@olubebe
This is an FTDI USB to serial adapter board. It's used to convert USB signals to serial communication signals (like TTL UART) and vice-versa, which is crucial for interfacing computers with microcontrollers, embedded systems, and other devices that use serial communication. It allows for tasks like programming microcontrollers (e.g., Arduino), debugging, or simply communicating with serial devices.
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frdysk
@frdysk
chat said:
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