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  • Document the hardware, the protocol and how each fact was established Eight pages covering what the iCUE NEXUS actually does and how it was worked out, rather than restating the reference tables already in docs/. The Panel records what was measured on hardware: the 13.33:1 ratio and what it rules in and out, the 18-bit truncation confirmed by sweeping one bit at a time, the yellow-shifted green primary, the 65 fps bus-limited ceiling, and the touch behaviour including the dropped report that turns a fast swipe into two. Reverse Engineering credits the four prior implementations the protocol came from and covers what this project added: verification against the device's own report descriptor, the read-only feature block that looks like a command block, and the image upload arithmetic. Device Access covers the udev rule and the ordering trap where a rule numbered above 73 applies its tag after the consumer has already run, granting nothing while looking correct. Rendering and Music Visualizers cover drawing for 48 pixels of height and the audio chain, including why pw-record captures silence without erroring and why band power is summed rather than averaged. How We Measured It is the method, and Traps collects the failures. They are grouped together because every one shares a shape: something reports success while doing nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013M9nbxEabdG7NSs8WYzsAp

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