Amazon Tap
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Amazon Tap
The Amazon Tap is a wireless bluetooth & wifi speaker featuring the "Alexa" voice assistant.
Purchase
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Hardware
- Freescale [MCIMX6L8DVN10AB] i.MX 6 SoloLite Applications Processor
- KMNJ2000ZM eMMC/DRAM
- Broadcom BCM4343
Teardown
You can find an excellent teardown of the Amazon Tap at [ifixit.com].
UART
The Amazon Tap features UART pads that provides u-boot and kernel output, but allows for no practical input - no shells of any sort.
The UART pads can be found in the photo below.
Gaining Bootloader Shell
The Amazon Tap implements a secure boot process but a bootloader shell can be obtained by grounding the flash data0 pin while u-boot is reading the kernel into memory.
To access the bootloader shell.
- Connect to UART
- Ground resistor next to TP27 silkscreen
- u-boot shell is available when presented with "=>"
The photo below illustrates the process.
