Introduction to the bluepill board
A board to do what? What is the board? What can it do? How much does it cost? Why this one? Where is the documentation? Yes, you surely have plenty of questions! You will sometimes need a reminder while testing or doing the exercises, so I will also point to the chip's documentation. These questions are exactly what we are going to be talking about in the following sub-headings.
A board to do what?
Well, we will need to interface the board with the circuit we will want to attack. Since a general-usage PC doesn't really have a readily accessible interface board to connect with the most common protocols, we will use a bluepill to do so.
What is it?
The bluepill is a colloquial name for many different boards that have the following characteristics:
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