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Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Temperature control, likely something to keep track of how much is left in the device, and I’m betting I’m forgetting something.

I doubt discreet electronics can cut it at that point.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, as per the analysis I did in another post, even a 555 and a couple of transistors to just blink an LED is more expensive than putting a microcontroller like this one there.