Books You Should Read: The Hardware Hacker’s Handbook

Here on Hackaday, we routinely cover wonderful informative writeups on different areas of hardware hacking, and we even have our own university with courses that delve into topics one by …read more Continue reading Books You Should Read: The Hardware Hacker’s Handbook→

ORBTrace Effort: Open Tool For Professional Debugging

The Orbtrace debugger hardware connected to a development board t hrough a 20-pin ribbon cable. The development board has a green LED shining.

There are some fairly powerful debugging facilities available on today’s microcontrollers — if your code crashes mysteriously, chances are, there’s a debugging interface that could let you track down the …read more Continue reading ORBTrace Effort: Open Tool For Professional Debugging→

Hacker Liberates Hyundai Head Unit, Writes Custom Apps

Photo of the head unit , with "Hacked by greenluigi1" in the center of the UI

[greenluigi1] bought a Hyundai Ioniq car, and then, to our astonishment, absolutely demolished the Linux-based head unit firmware. By that, we mean that he bypassed all of the firmware update …read more Continue reading Hacker Liberates Hyundai Head Unit, Writes Custom Apps→