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Hi, welcome back to the channel. I'm
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your pal Cal and today we'll be going
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over the Carduter ADV again, except
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we'll be going over something kind of
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special using the Bruce firmware. With
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the coming of the ADV having GPI opens,
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this opened up a whole world of
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opportunities for boards to be created
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just like on the Flipper Zero. And with
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those boards have come different
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developers who've wanted to make cool
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stuff. Now, it's rumored that M5 Stack
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is making what's called a hacker board,
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which is an RFID CC101 combo board, and
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that sounds kind of exciting. But in the
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meantime, we have some boards that have
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come out by a company called Pingqua.
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Pingqua. Pingqua. I hope I'm saying that
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right. Now, Pingqua is a company that
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makes Flipper zero boards, M5 stack
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stick boards, as well as carder 1 and
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ADV boards. And I kind of like their ADV
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boards because they're pretty well
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thought out. Their original board looked
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like this where we have an NRF24 and a
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CC101 on both sides. Now, there's
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another board by a developer by the name
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of Cassine, and I personally can't
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really endorse that board. I don't like
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how both radio modules are on the right
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side of the board, as well as both
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antennas being right next to each other.
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This is a better design. Now, I'm not a
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hardware expert, but I know damn well
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that if you put both the modules and
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both antennas jammed in a tiny place,
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this creates what's called cross talk.
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Cross talk is just noise. And I'm
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willing to bet my bottom dollar that
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that device has hella cross talk and you
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will lose pretty much all the power when
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it comes to the two RF modules that are
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built into the board. Like, think about
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it. Even if you use that board and you
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see it going crazy, that's really
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nothing. Like it looks like something's
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there, but I don't think anything's
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there. With this board, we can confirm
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that both modules are working
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beautifully. But you have to configure
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them for it to actually work. This board
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and this board are not hot swappable.
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Now, this is the original Pingqua board
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where we have a switch right there to
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toggle between the nrf24 and the CC101.
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Now, with their newer updated board, we
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have the NRF24 and the CC101 with no
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switch. So, as long as we change the pin
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config, everything will work perfectly.
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Now, quick disclaimer. If you're going
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to buy one of these boards, please buy
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them from their official website, which
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I've linked down below. The reason why
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I'm saying that is because there are
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scalpers scalping for an insane amount
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of money on AliExpress and Amazon. And
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don't fall for that, please. They're
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relatively inexpensive. and GPIO boards,
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they go to support the creator. Now,
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depending on what region of the world
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you're in, you want to make sure that
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the CC101s are tuned to the correct band
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that you want. For example, this board
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is tuned to 433, which works in my
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favor. And this board is tuned [music]
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to 915. This is their newer board. Their
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newer boards have a 915 option. So, if
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you need 915, well, I mean, you could
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get both or you can get just one
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specialized that you need. Either way,
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remember when playing with CC101's and
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NRF24s paired with an ESP32S3 that we
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remember to only test our own hardware
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and abide by the laws of our region.
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This is something that's really
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important and a lot of people take it
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with a grain of salt. No, this is
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serious, man. Some of these features are
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educational and experimental, and if you
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do the wrong thing in the wrong [music]
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place, you could get in trouble. Now,
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here we have one of the first iterations
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of this board. We got two antennas on
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opposite ends. We have the nrf24 here on
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the right that is for the 2.4 GHz
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spectrum and the CC101 tuned to 433 here
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on the left as well as a switch to
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toggle between them. Remember this is
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not hot swap. We do have to go into the
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Bruce config file and can uh you know
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configurate the pins. Now over here we
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have the newer Vinga board that comes
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with a much longer CC101 antenna. Our
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CC101 is tuned to 915 and our nrf24 is
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tuned to 2.4 GHz. It works flawlessly
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and I really do like this board. I do
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like the option of being able to uh
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switch between 433 and 915, but that's
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just me. Now, we're going to go to
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launcher since we have Pork Chop running
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right now. We're going to click
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Bruce.bin and install. And that will
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install our firmware. Now, we're going
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to head over to files. And once we go to
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files, we want to go to Bruce web UI.
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After we go to the Bruce web UI, you
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want to connect it through your phone or
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your desktop or you can connect your
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card computer to your home network and
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then access any computer to go to that
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URL right here, which is bruce.local and
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The username is admin and the password
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is Bruce. Now, once you're in the file
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system, you want to find Bruce pins.f.
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Open that file and we're going to have
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to change a few things in there. Now in
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the Bruce pins con file we need to
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adjust some values starting with CS
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being 13. Next look for io0 and change
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it to five. Now we scroll down till we
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find nrf24. In nrf24 look for cs equals
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and change it to six. Under nrf24 look
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for IO and change it to four. Now, once
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you've done all of that, make sure you
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press save. Not save as, just save, and
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then restart your device. But there's
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another way that we can actually do it
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just by clicking out the SD card from
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the card computer. Now that we've got
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the pins configured, we can switch this
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on to the right to 2.4. Click next and
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And from nrf24, we're going to click on
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spectrum. And there you have it.
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That's actually really nice and a
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powerful NRF24. Now, we can also plug in
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the newer Pingqua NRF CC101 and we can
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test it and it'll work straight off the
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rip. But we don't have to switch between
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2.4 GHz or the CC101 anymore. Going to
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go straight to NRF24. Go to spectrum and
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it's even better. Now, if you want the
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CC101 to work for RF functionalities,
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you want to go into RF, then config, and
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in config, click CC101. But you do want
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to keep something in mind. If you have
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this newer board with no switch and you
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have a 915 CC101, you want to specify
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that you want it working for the 915
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band. If you have a CC101 like the older
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one tuned to 433, then specify for 433.
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Keep that in mind. If you're enjoying
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using custom firmware like the Bruise
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firmware, M5 Pork Chop, Just Call Me
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Koko's Marauder, or the Evil M5 project,
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make sure that you support your
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developers and give them a star if you
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visit their GitHub page. They've put a
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lot of time and effort into giving us
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and inspiring so many people while also
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educating them in a really fun way. If
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you enjoyed this video, make sure you
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like, share, subscribe. It helps the
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algorithm and it helps me and I'd
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appreciate it. Also, there's a referral
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link for the card Peter ADV down in the
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description. and it's 5% off and it's
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all I could do. But hey, there's also a
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link for the card Peter ADV Laura Cap
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down below as well, which GPS modules
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powered by the ATGM 336 man, which is an
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very reliable GPS by the way. I've also
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linked the Pingqua boards down below and
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the ESP32 drivers, the GitHub pages for
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Bruce. I've linked everything.
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Everything is down below and I hope you
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guys enjoyed because I love you guys.
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We'll see you next time.
