Collaborate Disseminate
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
The 12VHPWR connector is a hot topic once again – Nvidia has really let us down on this one. New 5080 and 500 GPUs come with this connector, and they’re …read more Continue reading 12VHPWR Watchdog Protects You From Nvidia Fires
Have you been to FOSDEM? It’s a yearly two-day megaconference in Brussels, every first weekend of February. Thousands of software and hardware hackers from all across Europe come here each …read more Continue reading FOSDEM 2025, A Hardware Hacker’s Haven
Got a Flipper Zero? Ever wanted to use a high-level but powerful scripting language on it? Thanks to [Oliver] we now have a MicroPython application for the Flipper, complete with …read more Continue reading A MicroPython Interpreter For Flipper Zero