Collaborate Disseminate
A hacker’s view on ESD protection can tell you a lot about them. I’ve seen a good few categories of hackers neglecting ESD protection – there’s the yet-inexperienced ones, ones …read more Continue reading Hacker Tactic: ESD Diodes
One of the most frustrating things to me is looking at a freshly-flashed and just powered up single board computer. My goal with them is always getting to a shell …read more Continue reading ZPUI Could Be Your Tiny Embedded GUI
In the Blackberry-keyboard-based project lineage story last week, I covered how a series of open-source projects turned into Beepy, a cool Linux PDA with a lively community. To me, it’s …read more Continue reading Attack Of The Beepy Clones
What could happen when you open-source a hardware project? No, seriously. I hold a fair few radical opinions – one is that projects should be open-source to the highest extent …read more Continue reading The Blackberry Keyboard: How An Open-Source Ecosystem Sprouts
We return to [Tom Verbeure] hacking on Symmetricom GPS receivers. This time, the problem’s more complicated, but the solution remains the same – hardware hacking. If you recall, the previous …read more Continue reading Interposer Helps GPS Receiver Overcome Its Age
Last year, we’ve featured a super cheap smart ring – BLE, accelerometer, heart sensor, and a battery, all in a tiny package that fits on your finger. Back when we …read more Continue reading Cheap Hackable Smart Ring Gets a Command Line Client
Last year, we’ve featured a super cheap smart ring – BLE, accelerometer, heart sensor, and a battery, all in a tiny package that fits on your finger. Back when we …read more Continue reading Cheap Hackable Smart Ring Gets a Command Line Client
In case you weren’t aware, Apple devices around you are constantly scanning for AirTags. Now, imagine you’re carrying your laptop around – no WiFi connectivity, but BLE’s on as usual, …read more Continue reading Hijacking AirTag Infrastructure To Track Arbitrary Devices
Some of our devices look like they’re straight out of hacker movies. For instance, how about a small board you plant behind an RFID reader, collecting access card data and …read more Continue reading Here’s A Spy Movie-Grade Access Card Sniffing Implant
A team from the University of Chicago brings us a new spin on sensory substitution, the “Seeing with the Hands” project, turning external environment input into sensations. Here specifically, the …read more Continue reading Sensory Substitution Device Tingles Back Of Your Hand