Engineer Turns Disposable Vape into Blazing-Fast Web Server with Only 24KB Memory
Unlikely Web Server: A Vape Pen’s Hidden Computing Power Disposable vape pens are usually seen as trash once the nicotine runs out, but inside they often hide surprisingly capable electronics. Bogdan Ionescu – an engineer and hobbyist known as “BogdanTheGeek” – discovered this when he cracked open some “fancier” vape models. Instead of the typical mystery “blob” IC, he found a marked chip from Puya (a Chinese chipmaker) tomshardware.com. It turned out to be a Puya PY32F002B microcontroller: a tiny Arm Cortex-M0+ running at 24 MHz with 24 KB of flash storage and 3 KB of RAM tomshardware.com. These specs are not stellar
