Ask Hackaday: What Would You Do With the World’s Smallest Microcontroller?

It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and perhaps …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What Would You Do With the World’s Smallest Microcontroller?

iPhone 6S NVMe chip Tapped Using a Flexible PCB

The FPC adapter shown soldered between the BGA chip and the phone's mainboard, with the phone shown to have successfully booted, displaying an unlock prompt on the screen

Psst! Hey kid! Want to reverse-engineer some iPhones? Well, did you know that modern iPhones use PCIe, and specifically, NVMe for their storage chips? And if so, have you ever …read more Continue reading iPhone 6S NVMe chip Tapped Using a Flexible PCB

Heroic Efforts Give Smallest ARM MCU a Breakout, Open Debugger

The BGA chip in question flipped onto a piecce of breadboard, all its pins broken out with magnet wire.

In today’s episode of Diminutive Device Technology Overview, [Sprite_TM] is at it again – this time conquering the HC32L110. A few weeks ago, we have highlighted the small ARM Cortex …read more Continue reading Heroic Efforts Give Smallest ARM MCU a Breakout, Open Debugger