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A cheap AliExpress LED badge cracked, AES and all
Claude Code helped spot and crack the AES encryption on a cheap LED name badge, leading to a Python library, a CLI and a web font editor.
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Credits
- Post author timhodson.com Source ↗
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The full story
Tim Hodson reverse engineered a cheap Bluetooth LED name badge from AliExpress. Claude Code spotted that the badge's messages were AES-encrypted, which he says he would never have found, and helped crack it.
He then built a Python library, a command-line tool, a web-based font editor and an OSC server for controlling the badge, and wrote it all up.
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From a passing comment or social post, so the details are thin.
- Bluesky: Reverse engineered a cheap LED badge from AliExpress. Claude Code helped crack the AES encryption whPost author: timhodson.comPosted
His Bluesky post, linking the full write-up on timhodson.com.