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Practical Reverse Engineering Part 4 - Dumping the Flash
Fourth post in the series, detailing how to dump the router's flash chip directly with an SPI programmer, then split and decompress the resulting image into ...
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Wired Documentary on Shenzhen
This shoot was a lot of fun, and it was a great pleasure working with Posy and Jim. I think their talent as producer and director really show through. They also did a great job editing my off-the-cuff narratives. The spot in the video where I’m pointing out Samsung parts isn’t matched to the b-roll of Apple parts, but…
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My open-source, do-it-yourself cellphone (2013)
Meet an open-source, do-it-yourself cellphone built with Arduino. See how a maker designed and assembled a working phone.
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Kniterate is a 3D printer for clothes [video]
Why head to the store when you could simply create your outfits right at home with the touch of a button? That’s the idea behind London-based startup
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DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector
Oh man, this is good! You’re looking at the first DB-19 connector to be made in the 21st century:
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Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014)
Startups can’t do things the same way big companies do. And that’s a good thing; here’s why. Startups and big companies differ in a lot of ways. When it comes to hardware, the gulf between the two is massive. Early-stage startups are painfully under-financed. This lack of capital makes manu
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Interpreting Analog Sticks
Development Blog
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Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
Bringing Google Play — the most popular app store in the world — to Chromebooks.
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A Practical Guide to Lasers for Experimenters and Hobbyists
However, many others have contributed in one form or another (newsgroup postings, email, laser parts, etc.). They are cited in the Acknowledgments and/or in the individual sections which contain their material. And, by the way, the name: "Sam's Laser FAQ" was more or less created by those who have read and commented…
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Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
Machine learning provides the underlying oomph to many of Google’s most-loved applications. In fact, more than 100 teams are currently using machine learning at Google today, from Street View, to Inbox Smart Reply, to voice search.
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AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory
Many AWS customers are running memory-intensive big data, caching, and analytics workloads and have been asking us for EC2 instances with ever-increasing amounts of memory. Last fall, I first told you about our plans for the new X1 instance type. Today, we are announcing availability of this instance type with the…
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Raspberry Pi Car Speed Detector
(2016-12-18 Version 2 is now on github. It fixes one bug, makes the code style more consistent, and adds a few additional options for tracking the results.) It started with a Facebook post from my …
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Yubico: Secure Hardware vs. Open Source
Learn more about what's happening within the tech and cybersecurity industry and the developments in our business and security keys within our Yubico Blog.
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Raspberry Pi Zero grows a camera connector
When we launched Raspberry Pi Zero last November, it’s fair to say we were blindsided by the level of demand. We immediately sold every copy of MagPi issue 40 and every Zero in stock at our distributors; and every time a new batch of Zeros came through from the factory they’d sell out in minutes. To […]
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Here's to the systems programmers – Writing Hello World on a home brew CPU
Writing Hello World on a homebrew CPU
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Tutorial On Designing/Building A PCB (Using FOSS)
Learn electronics by working through real designs, builds, and stubborn bugs at the bench. You’ll get practice making your own boards and understanding what they do when you power them up.
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The void left by the parallel port
Resurrecting a dead interface
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Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discovered ATM Skimmer
Reverse engineering an ATM skimmer discovered in the wild, analyzing its hardware and data exfiltration methods.
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RISC instruction sets I have known and disliked
Experienced professional software engineer based in York, UK
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A Deep Learning USB Stick
Unlock more with Intel Core Ultra processors. Experience superior AI performance, all-day battery life, and pro-level graphics for work and play.
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MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China
Discover MakerBot's classroom solutions: 3D printers, software, and certification that help teachers pioneer 3D printing in education.
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Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition
Location Voiture Electrique à la journée, le week-end ou au mois. Dès 50€/jour. Oubliez les agences de location. Assurance tous risques.