Tagged “hardware-hacking”
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Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier
A hardware-hacking story about cracking the filter DRM on an air purifier, with teardown photos, reverse engineering ste…
Bringing Back the iPhone Headphone Jack
A video adventure through the Shenzhen electronics markets as a tinkerer designs and builds a working headphone jack int…
Converting a $20 4G Wireless Hotspot into a Texting Device
A hacker's write-up on turning a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a dedicated texting device, with the hardware tricks and t…
Discrete Logic Network Card
A build log of a 10BASE-T Ethernet transceiver made entirely from discrete logic chips, with schematics, scope traces an…
Dmitry.GR Projects
A hardware hacker's personal site full of deep-dive projects: reviving old Palm and Pixter gadgets, emulators on tiny ch…
DVD Laser Scanner Microscope
A DIY project that turns the laser pickup heads from DVD drives into a scanning laser microscope, with the build details…
Electronic Catan LCD Tiles
A maker build log of hexagon tiles with round LCD screens that snap together magnetically into a Settlers of Catan board…
Furiosa's Cat Feeder
A maker's witty build log of hacking an automatic cat feeder after one clever cat keeps outsmarting it, with photos of e…
Furiosa's Cat Feeder
A maker's step-by-step build log of a homemade automatic cat feeder for a cat named Furiosa, with photos of the mechanis…
Hacking a Duplo Train With My Voice
A write-up of hacking a child's Duplo train so it speeds up on voice commands, covering the electronics and code behind…
HardBreak
An open-source wiki that teaches hardware hacking step by step, from reconnaissance and interface interaction to firmwar…
How to Copy a File from a 30-Year-Old Laptop
A fun retro-computing adventure about getting one file off a three-decade-old laptop with no modern ports, using improvi…
Inside a Low Budget Hardware Espionage Implant
A teardown of the S8 data line locator, a USB cable with a hidden GSM tracker that can listen in, call back and report l…
My Business Card Runs Linux
A hardware hacker designs a thin PCB business card that actually boots Linux, covering the chip choice, the tricks for s…
Nokia N900 Necromancy
A hardware-hacking diary of reviving a dead Nokia N900 Linux phone with a fake battery, a USB-C port and booting from an…
Omega Naught Labs
David Kronstein's engineering playground, documenting homemade high-speed cameras, coilguns, motors and other ambitious…
Rainbow
A hardware hacking write-up on displaying colour on a black-and-white monitor, with the experiments and electronics behi…
Raspberry Pi Microwave
A maker's write-up of hacking a microwave with a Raspberry Pi so it can scan QR codes on food packaging and set the righ…
Reverse Engineering My Cable Modem Into an SDR
A detailed hacking write-up on reverse engineering a cable modem to repurpose its tuner and hardware as a software-defin…
RobTheNerd.com
A hand-built hobby site packed with Amiga hardware projects, ARexx scripts and disk-image tools, plus photography and ra…
Running a Tesla Model 3 Computer on My Desk
A security researcher buys wrecked-car parts and wires a Tesla Model 3's computer to his desk, walking through the pinou…
Simone's Blog
Playful hardware and software hacking write-ups, like reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker, building a 2FA app…
Sprites Mods
Hardware hacking projects by a veteran tinkerer, from console modding and reverse engineering to clever electronics buil…
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