Very cool, even though it's limited to Makita LXR at this point.
I think the home page is LLM-aided, the design looks very familiar and wording like
[...] no software to install, nothing to set up. Plug in an Arduino, flash the firmware [...]
gives me pause. I am an actual embedded software engineer, and I would not classify finding, wiring (with resistors!) and flashing a microcontroller board as "nothing to set up".
looks neat, read the page and i still have no idea what it does. arduino project with a few resistors, cool. something about reading BMS. which ones, which protocol(s), how does it get wired up?
fed all this to the robot to find that it's targeted at Makita battery packs. the word "makita" never once appears in the front page and it seems like a pretty important detail.
If you're interested, at https://infinite-battery.com we're building a repairable battery that you can connect to, it gives alerts, data, and is compatible with many e-bike controllers (Bosch, Bafang, etc)
This uses 1-wire protocol and is very specific for Makita power tool batteries.
Other battery types, like laptop batteries (uses I2C) are not supported.
This info should really be in the top-level README
Very cool, even though it's limited to Makita LXR at this point.
I think the home page is LLM-aided, the design looks very familiar and wording like
[...] no software to install, nothing to set up. Plug in an Arduino, flash the firmware [...]
gives me pause. I am an actual embedded software engineer, and I would not classify finding, wiring (with resistors!) and flashing a microcontroller board as "nothing to set up".
I love how the "read this before you start" safety warning is about two pagedowns from the shiny "Get started" button.
Discovered via comments in https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/fixing-a-dead-makita-battery...
looks neat, read the page and i still have no idea what it does. arduino project with a few resistors, cool. something about reading BMS. which ones, which protocol(s), how does it get wired up?
fed all this to the robot to find that it's targeted at Makita battery packs. the word "makita" never once appears in the front page and it seems like a pretty important detail.
Very interesting. I have several battery based Stihl tools. One battery seems problematic and this hopefully give more details.
Is there any list of what kind of batteries are supported?
I couldn't find it on a short inspection.
Cool, is there any commercial product that does this? I'd pay for that.
If you're interested, at https://infinite-battery.com we're building a repairable battery that you can connect to, it gives alerts, data, and is compatible with many e-bike controllers (Bosch, Bafang, etc)
Wow, that’s awesome, you should submit it as a show HN!
> Insert a battery and press Read battery
Where do you insert the battery?
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