[Free Hardware Offer] P101 Tuya AI Voice Device - BK7231 / RTL8720 audio streaming candidate?

I am offering a free P101 Tuya AI voice device to anyone in the community willing to tear it down and map the pins.

I strongly suspect this device does not do any local voice processing aside from wakeword detection. It acts like a cheap smart speaker, piping audio directly to the Tuya cloud. This means it is likely powered by a standard BK7231, RTL8720, or similar Tuya Wi-Fi module paired with an I2S mic and speaker.

As newer Tuya SDKs have patched out CloudCutter OTA exploits, this will require a physical teardown to dump the firmware via UART. If this uses a compatible chip, it could be an amazing testbed for OpenBeken audio streaming or acting as a local smart home voice satellite.

I will ship it for free from Massachusetts to an active contributor willing to post a teardown and pinout mapping. If you are interested, please email djbclark [at] gmail [dot] com with "free p101" in the subject line. Please write a sentence or two regarding your level of expertise with OpenBeken/Tuya flashing, your prior development work, and your current time availability to take this on.

Source / More technical context on the Tuya SDK limitations: https://github.com/tuya-cloudcutter/tuya-cloudcutter/issues/901

Interesting, maybe I could try, but how do you know it's even flashable? Have you made any basic teardown to at least identify what kind of hardware is inside? Tuya has more than "BK7231, RTL8720", they are using BK7238 these days, and even that is not guaranted.