Up on the bench this morning... a ORANGE CHEF Prep Pad. This was a kickstarter turned failure mode turned abandonware; I picked it up thrifting the other day for $4 not knowing its checkered past, only that it appears ridiculously over-engineered (machined from 2 slabs of aluminum and a food-grade phenolic surface... even a machined AL magnetic battery cover) and was pretty sure it was BT connected.
All the info I could find on it is in this github; it uses accelerometer data instead of a piezo transducer and appears that most of the important stuff is open datastream. Alas, my Kung-Fu is weak; I could understand about half of the gatt BT protocol stuff the guy is talking about and no idea if or how this thing can be made useful again even as a sideload app on android.
Considering it cost me $4, I'm down with it just being a nice, heavy, non-skid cutting board that happens to have some useless electronics inside; I was just wondering if any of you guys knew better than me.
mnem
*drops back & punts*
It appears to be a scale? If you do an FCC lookup of the FCC ID, you can get a nearly 50 page document on how they did the emmissions testing, which is rather useless to anybody but the FCC, pictures of the inside that show nothing you wouldn't see by opening it up yourself, and a three page user manual that only has info on how to pair it with your i-devices:
1.Download the Countertop™ app from the App Store™. Prep Pad is compatible with devices running iOS 6 and newer, including: iPad 3+, iPad Air, iPad mini
2.Launch Countertop and press the power button on Prep Pad.
3.Prep Pad and Countertop will automatically being the pairing process and notify you when the connection is successful.
4.After setting up your Countertop account, you’ll be ready to start using Prep Pad.
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout=500&calledFromFrame=Y&application_id=IFkHlE9fnxSRB5T%2F%2FxfI2g%3D%3D&fcc_id=2AA7T-PREPPAD