

The square solder islands on the headers are probably hints to the “mystery” but are probably not electrically important. Each Propeller pin is connected to two header pins.

The two 8-pin headers are for connecting power to other boards (on a real Prop Platform board they would be in line with the 32-pin headers), and the two 32-pin headers carry the P0 to P15 pins (on the left, top down), and the P16-P31 pins (on the right, bottom-up). Jon McPhalen is the author of the software, and he developed that platform a couple of years ago. The 32-pin headers on the left and right, and the two 8-pin headers near the top are very likely to be based on the Propeller Platform. It’s simply used as a USB to serial converter, that’s all. Unless the schematics are lying, there’s no reason to believe that there’s any mystery around the FTDI chip. It repeats and then I hit one of the capacitive sensors near the end.Ĭat -A DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY^M NO IMAGINATION^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M CONFORM^MWATCH TV^M OBEY^M SUBMIT^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M NO IMAGINATION^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M OBEY^MOBEY^MMARRY AND REPRODUCE^M CONFORM^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M SUBMIT^M EAT^M BUY^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M OBEY^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^M NO IMAGINATION^M SUBMIT^M WATCH TV^M CONSUME^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M CONSUME^M OBEY^M DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY^M CONSUME^M STAY ASLEEP^M BUY^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^MCONSUME^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M STAY ASLEEP^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M BUY^M NO IMAGINATION^MBUY^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^M DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY^M SUBMIT^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^M CONFORM^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M OBEY^M EAT^M OBEY^M SUBMIT^M STAY ASLEEP^M WATCH TV^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M STAY ASLEEP^M OBEY^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^M SUBMIT^M BUY^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY^M CONSUME^M SUBMIT^M BUY^M EAT^M CONSUME^M CONFORM^M SUBMIT^M EAT^M BUY^M DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY^M NO IMAGINATION^MWATCH TV^M CONSUME^M CONSUME^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M STAY ASLEEP^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M EAT^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^M CONSUME^M WATCH TV^M CONFORM^M OBEY^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M STAY ASLEEP^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^M STAY ASLEEP^M NO IMAGINATION^M CONSUME^M DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M BUY^M BUY^M STAY ASLEEP^M CONSUME^M CONFORM^M EAT^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M EAT^M DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY^M SUBMIT^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^M WATCH TV^M WORK EIGHT HOURS^M SUBMIT^M BUY^M SUBMIT^M EAT^MNO IMAGINATION^M OBEY^M NO IMAGINATION^M WATCH TV^M NO IMAGINATION^M NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT^M WATCH TV^M STAY ASLEEP^M MARRY AND REPRODUCE^M BUY^M^PWELCOME TO DEFCON TWENTY TWO^M^MCOME AND PLAY A GAME WITH ME^M^M Here’s a capture of the output from FTDI. If you have suggestions please let me know in the comments! I don’t have a programmer with me so not sure how I can make a firmware dump. When I hit on 57600 8N1 I get “COME AND PLAY A GAME WITH ME”. I fired up minicom and played around with the settings. They affect the four LEDs above the central letters.

Tiny dfn8 package next to that has numbers (3336 412).

It’s a 4-pin package with a shiny black top that has a slightly smaller iridesent square to it.
