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Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

by Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller blogs.gnome.org published 2026-10-157 min read

After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under Linux so I bought that. Only to discover that the chipset in...

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