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Cracking a GBA Game With NSA Tools
[Wrongbaud] is a huge fan of Japanese kaiju-style movies, including Godzilla and King Kong. In honor of the release of a new movie, he has decided to tackle a few projects to see how both of these...
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Here’s How to Sniff Out an LCD Protocol, But How Do You Look Up the Controller?
Nothing feels better than getting a salvaged component to do your bidding. But in the land of electronic displays, the process can quickly become a quagmire. For more complex displays, the secret...
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Reverse Engineering a Topfield VFD Front Panel
Hackers love the warm glow of a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), and there’s no shortage of dead consumer electronics from which they can be pulled to keep our collective parts bins nicely stocked....
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School Surplus Laptop BIOS Hacked to Remove Hardware Restrictions
Why did [Hales] end up hacking the BIOS on a 10 year old laptop left over from an Australian education program? When your BIOS starts telling you you’re not allowed to use a particular type of...
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Teardown: Impassa SCW9057G-433 Alarm System
This series of monthly teardowns was started in early 2018 as an experiment, and since you fine folks keep reading them, I keep making them. But in truth, finding a new and interesting gadget every...
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An RF Remote Is No Match For A Logic Analyser!
The Neewer NL660-2.4 Video Keylight has a handy remote control, which for [Tom Clement] has a major flaw in that it can’t restore the light to the state it had during its last power-on. He’s thus taken...
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What’s On Your Bank Card? Hacker Tool Teaches All About NFC and RFID
The Flipper Zero is a multipurpose hacker tool that aims to make the world of hardware hacking more accessible with a slick design, wide array of capabilities, and a fantastic looking UI. They are...
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Hackers and China
The open source world and Chinese manufacturing have a long relationship. Some fifteen years ago, the big topic was how companies could open-source their hardware designs and not get driven bankrupt by...
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Remoticon 2021: Uri Shaked Reverses the ESP32 WiFi
You know how when you’re working on a project, other side quests pop up left and right? You can choose to handle them briefly and summarily, or you can dive into them as projects in their own right....
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Taking Water Cooler UX Into Your Own Hands With Ghidra
Readers not aware of what Ghidra is might imagine some kind of aftermarket water cooler firmware or mainboard – a usual hacker practice with reflow ovens. What [Robbe Derks] did is no less impressive...
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Remoticon 2021: Unbinare Brings A Reverse-Engineering Toolkit Into Recycling
Unbinare is a small Belgian company at the forefront of hacking e-waste into something useful, collaborating with recycling and refurbishing companies. Reverse-engineering is a novel way to approach...
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Baby Steps Toward DIY Autonomous Driving: VW Golf Edition
Nice thermal design, but conformal coating and no ID marks make this tough to reverse engineer [Willem Melching] owns a 2010 Volkswagen Golf – a very common vehicle in Europe – and noticed that whilst...
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The Year of Owning It
Talking over the year in review on the Podcast, Tom Nardi and I were brainstorming what we thought was the single overarching trend in 2021, and we came up with many different topics: victories in the...
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Hacking is Hacking
Tom Nardi and I had a good laugh this week on the Podcast when he compared the ECU hacks that enabled turning a VW with steering assist into a self-driver to a hack last week that modified a water...
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Reverse Engineering: Trash Printer Gives Up Its Control Panel Secrets
Many of us hardware-oriented types find it hard to walk past a lonely-looking discarded item of consumer electronics without thinking “If only I could lug that back to the car and take it home to play...
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Blast Chips with This BBQ Lighter Fault Injection Tool
Looking to get into fault injection for your reverse engineering projects, but don’t have the cash to lay out for the necessary hardware? Fear not, for the tools to glitch a chip may be as close as the...
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Reusing Proprietary Wireless Sockets Without Wireless Hacking
Bending various proprietary devices to our will is a hacker’s rite of passage. When it comes to proprietary wall sockets, we’d often reverse-engineer and emulate their protocol – but you can absolutely...
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Linux Arcade Cab Gives Up Its Secrets Too Easily
Sometimes reverse engineering embedded systems can be a right old faff, with you needing to resort to all kinds of tricks such as power glitching in order to poke a tiny hole in the armour, giving you...
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Wordle Reverse-Engineering and Automated Solving
Simplified Absurdle decision tree for a single letter guess from a set of three possible options We don’t know about you, but we have mixed feelings about online puzzle fads. On one hand, they are...
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Custom SSD Gives New Life to Handheld Atom PC
People don’t usually go as far as [Wenting Zhang] has – designing a new IDE SSD board for a portable x86 computer made in 2006. That said, it’s been jaw-dropping to witness the astounding amount of...
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