Initially when this Hello Barbie was announced I was super eager to do a teardown and even try to do a reverse engineering attempt. However, the Somerset Recon team did a great job of this and I cannot even attempt to match it (I extracted the binary if anyone wants to bring me a decompiler and join in otherwise I need more time than I’m willing to put in at the moment). Instead I’m looking at how they deal with manufacturing issues and basic interfacing here. I initially did this back in December so at this point this is more to make sure my thoughts get collected than anything else. Let’s dive in.
WARNING: There are weird, art school-ish photos of a dissection of Barbie even before we get to the electronics.
