Collaborate Disseminate
We often take our “SoftwareSerial” libraries for granted, and don’t investigate what goes on under the hood — until they fail us, at least. Would you like to learn how …read more Continue reading Animate Arcane Protocols With Interrupt-Backed Bitbanging
It would appear that, sometimes, miracles happen. A few days ago, an update graced the website of Insteon, a company whose abrupt shuttering we covered in detail two months ago. …read more Continue reading Insteon Gets Another Chance
Many of us hackers have a longing for numpad-adorned mobile phones. We also have a shared understanding that, nowadays, such a phone has to be open and Linux-powered. Today’s project, …read more Continue reading Notkia: Building An Open And Linux-Powered Numpad Phone
This might sound like a familiar problem – you get a Bluetooth speaker, and it sounds nice, but it also emits all kinds of weird sounds every now and then. …read more Continue reading Bluetooth Speaker Domesticated Through Firmware Mod
[Mark Rehorst] tells us about a tragic incident involving an untimely demise of $200 worth of motor driving hardware, and shares a simple circuit so that we can prevent such …read more Continue reading Protect Your Drivers When The Motor Stalls
[Sevan Janiyan] shares their research on putting an open FPGA toolchain together. Specifically, this is an open toolchain for the Sipeed Nano Tang FPGAs, which are relatively cheap offerings by …read more Continue reading An Open Toolchain For Sipeed Tang Nano FPGAs
[Konrad Dybcio] tells about his journey booting Linux on A7/8/8X processors, playing around with an old iPhone 5 he’s got in a drawer. It’s been a two-year “revisit every now …read more Continue reading Boot Mainline Linux On Apple A7, A8 and A8X devices
We’ve seen hackers run DOOM on a variety of appliances, from desk phones to pregnancy tests. Now, the final frontier has been conquered – we got DOOM to run on …read more Continue reading DOOM? In Your BIOS? More Likely Than You Think!
In childhood, many of us wondered — wouldn’t it be cool if our miniature toys had “real” functions? Say, that our toy cars actually were able to drive, or at …read more Continue reading Computer-Shaped LEGO Brick Brought To Life
Recently, I stumbled upon a cool write-up by [DHowett], about reprogramming a Framework laptop’s Embedded Controller (EC). He shows us how to reuse the Caps Lock LED, instead making it …read more Continue reading EC Hacking: Your Laptop Has a Microcontroller