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Retro Recreations Hack Chat with Tube Time
Join us on Wednesday, March 17 at noon Pacific for the Retro Recreations Hack Chat with Tube Time! Nostalgia seems to be an inevitable consequence of progress. Advance any field far enough into the...
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Hacking a Digital Microscope Camera for Fun and Automated PCB Inspection
A desire for automated PCB inspection has led [charliex] down some deep rabbit holes. He’s written his own inspection software, he’s mounted his PCB vise on a stepper-controlled table, and now he’s...
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Machine Learning Current Sensor Snoops on MCUs
Anyone who’s ever tried their hand at reverse engineering a piece of hardware has wished there was some kind of magic wand you could tap on a PCB to understand what its doing and why. We imagine that’s...
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Reverse Engineering Silicon, One Transistor at a Time
Many of will have marveled at the feats of reverse engineering achieved by decapping integrated circuits and decoding their secrets by examining the raw silicon die. Few of us will have a go for...
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Inside Smart Meters Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, April 14 at noon Pacific for the Inside Smart Meters Hack Chat with [Hash]! That electrical meter on the side of your house might not look like it, but it’s pretty packed with...
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Camera Hack Peels Back Layers of Embedded Linux
Embedded Linux devices are everywhere these days, and sooner or later, you’re going to want to poke around in one of them. But how? That’s where posts like this one from [Felipe Astroza] come in. While...
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Taking Reverse Engineering to the Skies: Cheap Drone Gets PX4 Autopilot
Sometimes bad software is all that is holding good hardware back. [Michael Melchior] wanted to scavenge some motors and propellers for another project, so he bought an inexpensive quadcopter intending...
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[Ken Sherriff] Picks Apart Mystery Chip from Twitter Photo
It’s no secret that the work of [Ken Sherriff] graces the front pages of Hackaday quite frequently. He’s back again, this time reverse engineering a comparator chip from a photo on Twitter. The...
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Soundbar Bested by Virtual Android Bluetooth Sniffer
Out of the box, the Yamaha YAS-207 soundbar can be remotely controlled over Bluetooth, but only when using a dedicated application on iOS or Android. Users who want to command their hardware with their...
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VME Reverse Engineering
With some free time on his hands waiting for delayed parts to arrive, [Rik] set out to reverse engineer an old VME system he had acquired. VMEbus computers are based on the standard Eurocard PCB...
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Using CanoPy to Visualize the CAN Bus
As cars have become more sophisticated electronically, understanding the CAN bus that forms the backbone of automotive digital systems has become more and more important for hacking cars. Inexpensive...
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Reverse-Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller in E Ink Displays
For a monochrome display where refresh rate isn’t particularly important, there’s almost no better option than an E Ink display. They’re available in plenty of sizes and at various price points, but...
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ESP8266 Adds WiFi to a 433 MHz Weather Station
There’s no shortage of cheap weather stations on the market that pull in data from several wireless sensors running in the 433 to 900 MHz range and present you with a slick little desktop display, but...
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Investigating A New Chip In A Minimalist LED Lamp
Teardowns of cheap electronic devices can produce results that are interesting, horrifying, or both, especially when mains power is involved. [bigclivedotcom] gave a minimalist LED lamp his reverse...
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An Exercise in Firmware Dumping With the GreatFET
Looking to hone his hardware hacking skills, [James Chambers] recently set out to reverse engineer a common cheap wireless keyboard: the Logitech K360. The chipset it uses has already been fairly well...
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Super Mario Bros. 35 Lives Again With A Fan-Made Server
If you liked playing Super Mario Bros. 35, the unique multiplayer battle royale Mario game that Nintendo released last year on the Switch to celebrate 35 years since the original NES version of Super...
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Cloned Memory Module Fixes Broken Scopemeter
Finding broken test gear and fixing it up to work again is a time-honored tradition among hackers. If you’re lucky, that eBay buy will end up being DOA because of a popped fuse or a few bad capacitors,...
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Breaking Down the USB Keyboard Interface with Old-Fashioned Pen and Paper
What is better for gaming, old PS/2 style keyboards, or modern USB devices? [Ben Eater] sets out to answer this question, but along the way he ends up breaking down the entire USB keyboard interface....
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Hacking Old Honda ECUs
Automotive security specialist by day [P1kachu] hacks his own cars as a hobby in his free time. He recently began to delve into the Engine Control Units (ECUs) of the two old Hondas that he uses to get...
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High-Tech Paperweight Shows off Working 60s-era Thin-Film Electronics
[Ken Shirriff]’s analysis of a fascinating high-tech paperweight created by GE at the height of the space race is as informative as it is fun to look at. This device was created to show off GE’s...
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