Collaborate Disseminate
There’s no shortage of nicely built tablets out there, but unfortunately many of them are powered by what are by now severely outdated motherboards. Since manufacturers releasing replacement motherboards for …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A CM4 Upgrade For Your Old iPad
[David Lovett] aka Usagi Electric is taking a dive into yet another old computer design, this one from the early 1960s. He recently obtained eight mystery circuit boards on-loan for the …read more Continue reading Mysterious Adder from 1960s Bendix G-20
[frederic] tells a story about their team’s hack of a Google Nest Hub (2nd generation) — running Ubuntu on it, through bypassing Google’s boot image signature checks. As with many …read more Continue reading Breaking Google Nest Hub’s Secure Boot
Not all hacking happens on hardware — every now and then, we ought to hack our software-based tools, too. [Ducko] tells us about a partially open-source rewrite of Discord’s Electron-based …read more Continue reading OpenAsar Tweaks Discord’s Frontend, Improves Performance And Privacy
If you follow the exploits of [Aaron Christophel] (and trust us, you should), you’ll know that for some time now he’s been rather obsessed with electronic price tags, specifically those …read more Continue reading A Handy Breakout Board For E-Paper Hacking
This might sound like a familiar problem – you get a Bluetooth speaker, and it sounds nice, but it also emits all kinds of weird sounds every now and then. …read more Continue reading Bluetooth Speaker Domesticated Through Firmware Mod
[Konrad Dybcio] tells about his journey booting Linux on A7/8/8X processors, playing around with an old iPhone 5 he’s got in a drawer. It’s been a two-year “revisit every now …read more Continue reading Boot Mainline Linux On Apple A7, A8 and A8X devices
The structure of computer game assets can be a bit of a mystery, even more so the older a game is, and some amount of reverse-engineering can be expected when …read more Continue reading The Tools That Lovingly Tore Apart a Vintage Computer Game
[Etienne Sellan] got one of these lovely $5 logic analyzers. As with any shiny new tool, he started looking for things to investigate with it, and his gaze fell on …read more Continue reading Anyone Can Be The Master Of This Master Lock Safe
[Robo] over at Tiny Transistor Labs has a fascinating look at what’s inside these modern, ultra low-power devices that consume absolutely minuscule amounts of current. Crank up the magnification, and …read more Continue reading Gaze Inside These Nanopower Op-Amps