Collaborate Disseminate
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
Funny things can happen when a security researcher and an electronics engineer specializing in high-speed circuits get together. At least they did when [Limpkin] met [Roman], which resulted in two …read more Continue reading Current-Based Side-Channel Attacks, Two Ways
Having a game-tailored controller is a level-up in more ways than one, letting you perform in-game actions quickly and intuitively, instead of trying to map your actions to a clunky …read more Continue reading An Extensive Walkthrough On Building Your Own KSP Controller
[Thomas Roth], aka [Ghidraninja], and author of the [Stacksmashing] YouTube channel, investigated Apple’s Lightning port and created a cool debugging tool that allowed one to get JTAG on the device. …read more Continue reading 37C3: When Apple Ditches Thuderbolt, Hack USB-C
This week in the Podcast, Elliot Williams is off at Chaos Communication Congress, hearing tales of incredible reverse engineering that got locomotives back up and running, while Al Williams is …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 250: Trains, RC Planes, and EEPROMS in Flames
The first clue was that a number of locomotives started malfunctioning with exactly 1,000,000 km on the odometer. And when the company with the contract for servicing them couldn’t figure …read more Continue reading Unbricking Trains, Uncovering Shady Behavior
Recent iPhone models have additional hardware-based security protection for sensitive regions of the kernel memory. We discovered that to bypass this hardware-based security protection, the attackers used another hardware feature of Apple-designed SoCs. Continue reading Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery
Ever since the demise of Google’s Stadia game streaming service, the associated Stadia controllers have found themselves in limbo, with the only way to switch them from the proprietary WiFi …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering The Stadia Controller Bluetooth Switching Procedure
These days e-paper (eInk) displays are everywhere, with stores being one of the largest users of smaller, monochrome versions of these persistent displays. This has also made them a solid …read more Continue reading Hacking An NFC E-Paper Display From Waveshare With Mystery MCU