Reportedly, someone managed to get a tiny web server running on one of those disposable vapes, electronic cigarettes that you see more and more people consuming, at least where I live.
Unlike regular cigarettes, which consist of non-electronic components, a filter, some paper and tobacco for the most part, vapes contain electronic components.
Our ingenious engineer dissected vapes that he received from friends and family for some time and discovered something peculiar in vapes from a specific brand.
He noticed that they included a micro processor, probably the cheapest micro-controller in existence. Further inspection revealed that it had the following characteristics:
- 24 MHz Coretext M0+ processor.
- 24 KiB of Flash Storage.
- 3 KiB of Static Ram.
He realized that he could use it to run a web server, and that is exactly what he set out to do. You can check out the blog post to find out more about the process. In the end, he managed to get the web server, with a single page, running on the vape.
The post has a link to the website, but I could not get it to run. Not sure if it has been taken down, if it is overloaded, or caused by another issue.
It is a remarkable feat of engineering, very similar to getting Doom running on any device with a display and some form of micro-computer inside.
Maybe the website was hosted on one of his disposable vapes?
(Sorry, I just couldn’t pass that one up ;)~