Hi folks, A while ago I did reverse engineering challenge that pushed me to learn more about the Arduino toolchain. I am a big fan of Platformio and switched to that a long time ago but most people will still use Arduino and the Arduino IDE. Also, even in Platformio you will most times use …
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Hacking hardware and software for one’s needs
VFIO Passthrough of an AMD RX550(1002:699f) to a macOS Guest
Don’t be like me, be better I will admit to not properly researching what GPU I needed to properly run macOS with Qemu. Combine that with me wanting go buy the cheapest yet still available AMD GPU and you get the Sapphire AMD RX550 OC(2GB). What I did not know is that this card has …
Reverse Engineering a PyInstaller Executable on Linux
I was working on a reversing challenge recently and I was given an odd binary file. I say odd because it had a prompt that said “enter username” and such but the string username was not to be found in the binary. Something was up. So I looked at it from a few angles: First, …
How To Setup Ambilight on the Odroid-c1/c2 and Not Blow a Fuse
I’ve struggled with setting up Ambilight on the Odroid-C1 for a while. I stopped in frustration after week when I realized it was not going to work. And now I think I have finally found the solution. But let me back up a bit. It all started with me reading a glossy article in the …
A Possible Crypto Commitment Scheme for a Timestamp(or a Number)
Hi again, I’ve been reading lately about zero knowledge proofs and commitment schemes. I had this idea about a commitment scheme that could hide a timestamp(or a number in general) until such time that the prover would want to reveal it to the verifier. Warning: I do not claim this is an original idea, it’s …
Accessing the serial console on a Samsung Spinoint F3 a.k.a. HD103SJ HDD
Hello, If you were looking for a more sophisticated title like “What did the Samsung HDD say to the TTL cable?” then you came to wrong blog. A year or so ago I had some data access problems with this Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD and having heard that a firmware update might help I… well… …
Watching the Micro 3D Printer Work is Pretty Cool
I have been hacking away these past weeks at printing things with my new M3D printer. Sitting next to it while it prints is not exactly a productive pastime so I used a webcam to make a video of the printing process. I then took that video and trimmed it in QuickTime and then I …
Why I Think IKEA Should Make Open Source Designs
I’ve been dreaming for a while about my own 3D printer and this month that dream came true. I had on pre-order a Micro 3D printer. I got the green one. While the print volume isn’t great the user experience is pretty great. For a beta product 🙂 … And so I entered the world …
Building the GreenBoy, err… PiBoy, PiGrrl's Friend
Building a Raspberry Pi Gameboy (Yes, This is Not New) Hello friends, Every once in a while I get tired of technology; there is simply so much to learn, to do, to think about, to tinker with, to make etc. My minds overloads and I need to do something else, not necessarily easier, but using …
Accessing The Serial Console on a TP-Link TL-WR340g + Resetting/Flashing?
A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to mess around with a TP-Link WR340g V4. This particular unit had a faulty reset button and could no longer be reset to factory defaults and we didn’t know the admin password anymore… So began the quest to unlock the serial console on this device. …
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