Collaborate Disseminate
For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain …read more Continue reading It’s Not Easy Counting Transistors in the 8086 Processor
It’s little surprise that most hackers have a favorite text editor, since we tend to spend quite a bit of time staring at the thing. From writing code to reading …read more Continue reading ImHex: An Open Hex Editor for the Modern Hacker
If you are a certain age, you probably remember the Mattel Football game. No LCD screen or fancy cartridges. Just some LEDs and a way to play football when you …read more Continue reading Is it a Game? Or a Calculator?
I was trying to research about anti-debugging techniques here, but i failed to make sense of what stack segment manipulation’s. Could anyone have a good explanation for what it means or nice resources to read up more about it?
[RichardG] has noticed a weird discrepancy – his Ryzen mainboard ought to have had fourteen USB3 ports, but somehow, only exposed thirteen of them. Unlike other mainboards in this lineup, …read more Continue reading Dirty USB-C Tricks: One Port For The Price Of Two
There’s nothing more satisfying than finding a broken piece of gear in the trash and bringing it back to life. Satisfying, but also potentially more time-consuming — someone tossed it …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering Saves Weller With a Wonky LCD From the Trash Pile
To our way of thinking, the whole purpose behind robotic vacuum cleaners is their autonomy. They’re not particularly good at vacuuming, but they are persistent about it, and eventually get …read more Continue reading Old Robotic Vacuum Gets a New RC Lease on Life
The original Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner led to loads of clones and lookalikes over the years, and one of them is the ALEE mopping “robot”. [Raymond] tears it down and reveals …read more Continue reading Seriously, Don’t Buy This Mopping Robot
The recent flurry of videos and posts about the TVGuardian foul language filter brought back some fond memories. I was the chief engineer on this project for most of its …read more Continue reading The Story Behind the TVGuardian Curse Catcher
With so many cheap network-connected devices out there being Linux-powered, it’s very tempting to try and hack into them, usually via a serial interface. This was the goal of [Andrzej …read more Continue reading Getting Root On A Chinese IP Camera