I reverse engineered the firmware loading utility of a $17 beauty salon spectrophotometer to load the firmware of its "big boy" sibling:
https://adam.zeloof.xyz/2025/07/10/x-rite-pantone-spectrophotometer-unlock/
@azzeloof oooh, there was a bunch of these at ewaste a while ago! neato.
@foone ah! Could have made a fortune at $17 a pop for those.
Tbf the $17 ones were listed for a long time before I bought them, and there are more expensive ones still up there so I dont know that these are exactly in high demand.