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Indiana Holmes 79612197a1 Card-Crack: Cardputer ESP32-S3 home-lab recon toolkit
Manual-trigger firmware toolkit for pentesting owned devices:
- Pin Scan: UART/JTAG/SWD detection (baud est + IDCODE reads)
- V-Sense: target voltage probe w/ logic-family guess
- UART Sniff: passive capture + manual-only frame replay
- USB Enum: ESP32-S3 host, read-only descriptor fingerprinting
- DefCred: single-host factory-default login check, rate-limited

Modular shell (core/ + modules/), PlatformIO build, hardware/safety docs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AAhMHMRAQLQ9hSbBECKNfn
2026-09-10 18:12:42 +00:00

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Hardware & wiring — read before probing

The Cardputer's ESP32-S3 is a 3.3 V part. Several targets you'll poke are not:

  • Car OBD/USB, PC USB: 5 V VBUS.
  • Some debug headers idle at 1.8 V.

Always go through protection. Never land a probe on a live target until V-Sense has told you the voltage.

Probe header

src/core/pins.h defines pins::PROBE[]. By default:

  • G1, G2 — the side Grove connector (safe, use these first).
  • G8..G13 — StampS3 pads via a breakout ribbon (optional).

Minimum protection rig

Signal Between probe and target
Any GPIO in 1 kΩ series + 3.3 V clamp (BAT54S to 3V3/GND)
V-Sense (G10) resistor divider R1:R2 = 2:1 → 0–9.9 V range (ratio 3)
Level shift bidirectional shifter (e.g. TXS0108) for 5 V buses

Adjust pins::VSENSE_RATIO if you change the divider.

USB host

To use USB Enum the S3 must supply VBUS to the target as a host. Use an OTG adapter on the S3 USB port, keep the CDC console on the built-in USB, and never hot-plug a 5 V target onto a GPIO — it goes on the USB D+/D-/VBUS lines only.

Safety checklist

  1. Target powered from its own supply, common ground with the Cardputer.
  2. V-Sense the line first. If it reads ≥ 5 V, shift or stop.
  3. Start passive (Pin Scan / UART Sniff). Only replay/TX when you mean to.
  4. It's your device. Keep it that way.