Open-Source eInk Bike Computer Ships, AI Reverse-Engineers ANT Protocol on ESP32
stingrae · hn · 2026-09-05
A developer launched an open-source eInk bike computer project on HN.
The bonus: by messing around with undocumented ESP32 registers, AI helped create a working ANT protocol (the common wireless standard for cycling/fitness sensors) implementation for ESP32, now open-sourced on GitHub.
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