This is a step by step guide into how I hacked my Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) fitness tracker so I could control it from Linux. This story started from a Facebook post I made talking about a problem of the absence of an API for fitness trackers, and why that’s not helping data scientists make cool stuff for them. The post generated quite a lot of discussion and after caught the attention of my frie
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