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Assembling with a stencil is just that much more convenient – it’s a huge timesaver, and your components no longer need to be individually touched with a soldering iron for …read more Continue reading Want Better 0402 Reflow? Consider These Footprints!
Some pictures recently surfaced on social media, showing a small PCB tapped into four points on Cisco-branded boards. What is this about? A NSA backdoor so data can be exfiltrated …read more Continue reading Counterfeit Cisco Hardware Bypasses Security Checks With Modchips
Wonderful things happen when we read the documentation. For instance, we’ve all seen a Raspberry Pi work as an Ethernet adapter over USB, or a ESP32-S2 presenting as a storage …read more Continue reading SteamDeck: Become Printer
Say you’re tinkering with a smart device powered by a CPU that uses Serial Wire Debug (SWD), but doesn’t mark the testpoints. Finding SWD on a board — how hard …read more Continue reading Find SWD Points Quickly, No Extra Hardware Needed
As many people have pointed out, what matters with USB-C isn’t just the standard, it’s the implementations. After all, it’s the implementations that we actually have to deal with, and …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: Pinecil Soldering Iron
Talking about high-quality USB-C implementations, there’s a product that has multiple selling points designed around USB-C, and is arguably a shining example of how to do USB-C right. It’s the …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: Framework Laptop
One amazing thing about USB-C is its high-speed capabilities. The pinout gives you four high-speed differential pairs and a few more lower-speed pairs, which let you pump giant amounts of …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: High-Speed Interfaces
USB-C eliminates proprietary barrel plug chargers that we’ve been using for laptops and myriads of other devices. It fights proprietary phone charger standards by explicitly making them non-compliant, bullying companies …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: Power Delivery
If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: Resistors And Emarkers
Are you one of the lucky ones to own a Hackaday Supercon 2022 badge? Would you like to make it even easier to program than it already is? [brokebit] has …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022 Badge Gets A Tinkering Helper Add-on