Collaborate Disseminate
Although smartwatches seem to be just a recent fad, people have been strapping wristwatches to their wrists with all kinds of functionality. Whether a miniscule calculator, a remote control, an …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the Web-@nywhere Watch For 2001-Era Smartwatch Action
Appliance manufacturer Haier has been integrating IoT features into their newer products, and as is so common these days, users are expected to install their “hOn” mobile application to access …read more Continue reading Haier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer
With Russian military hardware quite literally raining down onto the ground in Ukraine, it’s little wonder that a sizeable part of PCBs and more from these end up being sold …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering A Russian Tornado-S Guidance Circuit Board
After [David Lovett] of [Usagi Electric] was donated a few cars full of DEC PDP-11 minicomputers of various flavors and vintages, he passed on most of them to loving homes, …read more Continue reading PDP-11 Trouble With A Ruthless Power Supply Issue
As part of a team reverse-engineering the binary blob driver for the ESP32’s WiFi feature at Ghent University, [Jasper Devreker] saw himself faced with the need to better isolate the …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering The ESP32’s WiFi Binary Blob With A Faraday Cage
UEVR, or the Universal Unreal Engine VR Mod by [praydog] is made possible by some pretty neat software tricks. Reverse engineering concepts and advanced techniques used in game hacking are …read more Continue reading UEVR Project Converts Games to VR, Whether They Like It Or Not
If you’re lucky, reverse engineering can be a messy business. Sure, there’s something to be said for attacking and characterizing an unknown system and leaving no trace of having been …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering Smart Meters, Now with More Fuming Nitric Acid
In 1998 the founders of Palm had a bit of a falling out with the wildly successful PDA company’s new owners. They set up a new company called Handspring, which …read more Continue reading Wiring An SD card To A Handspring PDA’s 68K Bus With Only Three SOT23s
Before there were home computers, among the hottest pieces of consumer technology to own was a pocket calculator. In the early 1970s a series of exciting new chips appeared which …read more Continue reading Decoding a ROM From a Picture of the Chip
It’s a story we’ve heard many times before: if you want to get your data from the Domyos EL500 elliptical trainer, you need to use a proprietary smartphone application that …read more Continue reading Hacking BLE to Liberate Your Exercise Equipment