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Some progress has been made at reverse-engineering the hardware, which is very similar to that found in the Particle Photon. At $20, the Photon is a clear winner over the IoT button. As soon as someone puts the pieces together so we can flash the Dash's firmware, that's when things get interesting.
https://community.particle.io/t/amazon-dash-anyone-hacked-it...
For folks who use words like "desolder" it's not tricky at all.
This (and the Dash) come in a glued shell with a 1.5v Energizer Li AAA solder-welded to the back. Getting inside without completely destroying the curb-appeal takes a hex bit, some scraping, and a little patience.
Once you get to the board, the battery is easily replaced with a LiPo. The MCU is 3.3v, but Amazon Prime has you covered on cheap LDO/buck converters (like, "a buck" converters).
You can replace the battery with a rechargable LiPo using a $2 security driver, spudger and a little elbow grease.
It's Ruby on Rails
Went from a 71 year old to "We're not sure if you're actually human" in 3 tries. Benjamin Button!
I've been dreaming of something like this for a while. There's an OS project called "Stylo" (https://github.com/maccman/stylo) that has the basic framework for an interface builder, but it's not as far along as what I can gather from the Divshot demo. I'd be much happier building web apps in my free time, instead of an app to build web apps. Looking forward to checking it out.