Some ongoing notes trying to understand what the iCopy-X is made of, what's the current state and what could be done once the software gets fully open-sourced.
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I want to warmly thank @gator96100 for sharing his own finding that are being merged over time in this repo as well!
Links mentioned in the documentation and in social networks
- iCopy-X on Facebook
- iCopy-X on Twitter
- iCopy-X on WeChat ?? Cannot find it.
- iCopy-X on Kickstarter
- https://icopy-x.com/
- https://www.icopy-x.com/warranty (not yet online as of 06/2021)
- https://www.icopy-x.com/support (not yet online as of 06/2021)
- https://www.icopy-x.com/updates a form where you need to provide your serial number as apparently firmwares are diversified per device. => https://www.icopy-x.com/otasys/
- team@icopy-x.com => product level
- Nikola T. Lab Youtube channel
- Nikola T. Lab on TikTok
- Nikola T. Lab on Twitter
- Nikola T. Lab on GitHub
- https://www.nikola-lab.com/ (not yet online as of 06/2021)
- team@nikola-lab.com => distributorship
2021-08 UPDATE
Source of Hardware blueprints, schematics, STM32 firmware, Proxmark3 modifications and new FGPA support have been recently released. Parts are now merged in the official Proxmark3/RRG repo.
See all details here.
We're still missing the Python application details to be able to develop on the iCopy-X interface.
Most teardown observations predate the source releases.
So far, major observations are the following.
iCopy-X is based on Proxmark3 and a NanoPi NEO embedded Linux to run the client side. It contains an additional Python wrapper to provide a user interface with LCD and buttons.
- Proxmark3 has an external flash like RDV4 but no smartcard reader
- Proxmark3 FPGA is a larger model XC3S100E than the usual XC2S30
- Proxmark3 runs a modified version of RRG/Iceman repo circa September 2020 (forked from 29c8b3aa4ee8cb3d66a1542d95740d996abe201f)
- ARM firmware got modified at least to deal with the new FPGA image and to remove version information
- FPGA image got modified to merge lf, hf and felica images
fpga_compressgot modified to allow larger image (#define FPGA_CONFIG_SIZE 72864L)- client for NanoPi got modified at least to return error codes, to deactivate history and logs and to remove version information
- client for Windows got modified at least to return error codes and to remove version information
- UPDATE: full diff here
- How firmwares are tied to serial numbers? cf version.so
- Is the antenna LED drivable?
- LED screen drivable by both STM32 and NanoPi?
- Non-PC Mode: is there any usage of /dev/ttyACM0 when untied to ?
- Open most of the Python application such that it could be properly maintained up to date with the RRG/Iceman and its GUI maintained properly as well
- Bind the UART-to-USB bridge to the Linux Debug console when in non-PC-Mode, it's much more convenient than using the inner UART1