Collaborate Disseminate
The Cheap Yellow Display may not be the fastest of ESP32 boards with its older model chip and 4 MB of memory, but its low price and useful array of …read more Continue reading Three SPI Busses Are One Too Many on This Cheap Yellow Display
Let’s face it — electronics are hard. Difficult concepts, tiny parts, inscrutable datasheets, and a hundred other factors make it easy to screw up in new and exciting ways. Sometimes …read more Continue reading Chip Mystery: The Case of the Purloined Pin
If you’ve been involved with electronics and hardware hacking for awhile, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard of the Bus Pirate. First introduced on the pages of Hackaday back in …read more Continue reading Hands On: Bus Pirate 5
One of the biggest upsides of open communications standards such as CAN or SPI is that a whole world of vehicle hacking becomes available, from simple projects like adding sensors …read more Continue reading A Dashboard Outside The Car
Security Engineer [Guillaume Quéré] spends the day penetration testing systems for their employer and has pointed out and successfully exploited a rather obvious weakness in the BitLocker full volume encryption …read more Continue reading Bypassing Bitlocker with a Logic Analzyer
The best part of I2C is that it is a bus that is available just about anywhere, covering a vast ecosystem of devices that offer it as a hardware-defined interface, …read more Continue reading Three Pitfalls in I2C Everyone Wishes Weren’t There
All you want is a decent night’s sleep, so you decide to invest in one of those fancy adjustable beds. At first, it’s fine — being able to adjust the …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering a Better Night’s Sleep
One of the problems with designing things on a chip is finding a good way to talk to the outside world. You may not design chips yourself, but you care …read more Continue reading Interlaken Want to Connect All the Chips
Anyone looking for components for electronics projects, especially robotics, microcontrollers, and IoT devices, has likely heard of Waveshare. They are additionally well-known suppliers of low-cost displays with a wide range …read more Continue reading Low-Cost Display Saved By RP2040
Virtual Reality always seemed like a technology just out of reach, much like nuclear fusion, the flying car, or Linux on the desktop. It seems to be gaining steam in …read more Continue reading Mice Play in VR