Collaborate Disseminate
There’s a new addition to the Adafruit family, and it’s not a microcontroller board as you’d expect – however, we will still find plenty to learn from. On the Adafruit …read more Continue reading High-Contrast Images For Hacker Family Harmonics
A broken PlayStation controller would normally be a bummer, and if the issue is losing calibration that’s stored in a non-documented format, you might as well bin it. For [Al] …read more Continue reading Challenging A Broken DualShock 4 Controller To A Duel
Cool technology often comes at a cost, and it’s not always that this cost is justified. For instance, [Rainfay] tells us about how the the ArtNet protocol’s odd design choices …read more Continue reading ArtNet Not Going Through? Your Switch Might Be Protecting You
People experience a variety of problems with USB-C. I’ve asked people online about their negative experiences with USB-C, and got a wide variety of responses, both on Twitter and on …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: Manufacturer Sins
Sometimes, security mechanisms can be bypassed if you just do things slightly out of the ordinary. For instance, readout protection on microcontrollers is a given nowadays, to the point where …read more Continue reading Need To Dump A Protected STM32F0x? Use Your Pico!
The MCP23017, a 16-bit I2C GPIO expander, has always been a tasty chip. With 16 GPIOs addressable over I2C, proper push/pull outputs, software-enabled pull-ups, eight addresses, maskable interrupts for all …read more Continue reading MCP23017 Went Through Shortage Hell, Lost Two Inputs
ROM dumping is vital for preserving old hardware, and we’ve seen many hacks dedicated to letting someone dump a ROM and send its contents to some hacker stuck with a …read more Continue reading A Disposable Dumper For ROM Chips With A Pi Pico
The Framework laptop prides itself on having reusable parts, and hackers all around routinely challenge the claims by building projects reusing them. Yet again, [whatthefilament] puts the Framework hardware to …read more Continue reading Building An All-in-One Desktop Out Of Framework Parts
The SCPI (Standards Command for Programmable Instruments) protocol is exceptionally popular in lab and workspace tools, letting you configure and fetch data from oscilloscopes and lab scales alike in a …read more Continue reading Let’s Make SCPI More Helpful
The ChipWhisperer has been a breakthrough in hobbyist use of power analysis and glitching attacks on embedded hardware. If you own one, you surely have seen the IDC and SMA …read more Continue reading ChipWhisperer Adapter Helps Reverse-Engineer A Controversial Game Cartridge