M2nano specs
Searching for some information on the M2nano, I came across these specs;
MAX:600mm/S Carving:7mm/S Cutting:0.5mm/S X-Axis Motor:0.33A/Phase Y-Axis Motor: 0.44A/Phase
These numbers give a good reference for what is possible and better with a third party controller and software.
Info was found here;
Heh, that’s $115. My mini upgrade is $99. Smoothie and LaserWeb don’t need a USB key. That’s funny.
I"d say make it work with what you have on hand or is the cheapest option.
@raykholo That is a great sales slogan for your products. Cheaper and “No key? No problem!”
Lost your key? It’s cheaper to replace the board.
You realize that it is easy just to make a copy of the drive and then copy the backup to another flash drive or on to a CD. Better yet upload a copy of the files to the cloud.
@Jonathan_Davis_Leo_L The USB key does not contain any files and cannot be copied. It is an anti-pirate dongle for the LaserDrw software which is the only software that will work on the M2nano board.
Argh!
Well doesn’t mean someone can’t crack it as people pirate paid software on a regular basis. So a special formated flash drive wouldn’t be too difficult
Hey @Jonathan_Davis_Leo_L , when you figure out how to make a copy of the “drive”, why don’t you share that piece of information to everyone here who have owned one of these machines for far longer than you, and have been fighting with them, for far longer than you, and who are rather grateful for others, like @raykholo , who create alternatives so we don’t have to use that “drive” you claim you can simply “copy”. Please do, show us how. I’m just dying to know.
Okay and I’m not saying that it couldn’t be done, just that it was possible to do it since it is mass manufactured product. Also I happen to own a board created by Mr. @raykholo and I think it’s quite a versatile system that could with the right bit of tinkering be able too handle running multiple systems.
Seen one of these on ebay for 75 dollars minus the usb. USA seller too.
@Jonathan_Davis_Leo_L , you’ve obviously never dealt with hardware encryption. Yep, they’re mass produced. Good luck hacking them. As I said, go for it. Put your money where your mouth is. Let us know when you figure it out.
All I’m saying is that it is possible not that it would actually be done. Since you do have the option to reprogram the board.
Again, you have obviously never dealt with encryption hardware. They can not, ever, in no way, shape, or form, be reprogrammed. They are once set devices.
Do yourself a favor and go watch a movie on lions because this is an argument you will not ever win. I have a few decades over you in this field.
@Ashley_M_Kirchner_No Okay and I was never intending to be rude at all. But knowing the current state of technology I was only generalizing the fact that such a feat was possible. Since many online services have been hacked in recent years, like yahoo for example.
Software versus hardware. You’re not reading. May I recommend Lion King?
@Ashley_M_Kirchner_No No need for your disrespect please, but with all hardware at one point or another software is involved as the chips that run it would have to be programmed. In all known facts I do believe that something of that caliber could be indeed hacked or even a workaround produced. That would allow the controller board to work without the use of the dongle. I’m not the hacker to do it, but one does most likely exist who is probably already figuring that solution out.
You are correct, the software that sets the first encryption key, is at the factory where the wafers are made and embedded. The software that sets the second encryption key, can be owned by anyone, it’s free. Set the second key, the chip generates the final encryption using the first key and locks itself. There is no way to unlock it. Let me repeat that again: THERE IS NO WAY TO UNLOCK IT. Not even the factory can unlock the chip, they are throw-aways, freaking 88 cents for an AES encryption chip.
Once you learn how electronic circuits work, you’ll understand that statement, it’s a one way street. You can not, EVER, get to the primary encryption keys. You might be able to figure out the secondary ones, but you still can’t unlock the full encryption string that you can then use to decode it.
This is how hardware encryption works. Do the research, teach yourself something.
@Ashley_M_Kirchner_No Still no need to be rude. As another option is to just simply remove the encryption chip all together and replace it with another that mimics the effect. Thus tricking the board to think that it is there, when it is not.