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This article describes a hackathon project where participants reverse-engineered a French pharmacy cross LED sign and created tools, including a C++ library, to display custom content like a Rickroll video.
The article advocates for firmware freedom in guitar effects hardware, emphasizing user control over firmware to enhance customization and ownership, with examples of devices like CoyoPedal and ESP32-S3 implementations.
Researchers unlocked the full performance of Nvidia's CMP 170HX GPU, a restricted mining variant, by cracking the debug AES key and exploiting a firmware vulnerability, enabling its use for AI inference and computing tasks.
This article details hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a custom texting device by installing Linux via openstick, integrating a Clicks keyboard and a SHARP display, with a focus on the DIY process and hardware components.
The author describes their process to run Ubuntu on a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook after postmarketOS broke, involving firmware hacking and leveraging mainline Linux kernel drivers.
Ben reverse engineered the Egret GT e-scooter, discovered hidden features via Bluetooth and CAN bus, and wrote custom firmware in Rust for the display unit.
ESP32 Bit Pirate is an open-source hardware debugging ecosystem for ESP32-S3 boards, providing firmware, browser-based tools, and documentation for multi-protocol hardware hacking and development.
A technical method or project for dumping data from the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) using audio signals, shared on the Lobsters tech community.
An individual used Claude AI to revive a defunct sleep monitoring device by rebuilding its software from open-source repositories on GitHub, achieving full feature parity on a Mac.
A hobbyist builds a portable wide-screen electromechanical TV called the Scanwheel, using a 3D-printed drum and Raspberry Pi Pico to achieve a 4K by 20 resolution, inspired by early television technology like Nipkow disks.
Reverse-engineered the Axera AX8850 NPU's int8 weight format to enable direct GGUF inference in llama.cpp, achieving up to 24.5 t/s decode and 716 t/s prefill on a Raspberry Pi 5, outperforming the vendor's runtime by 1.5×.
A personal blog post detailing experiments with generative art using a modified 3D printer as a plotter and tools like Inkscape and Python scripting.
A user forked the Ninfer inference engine to run on CMP170HX GPUs, doubling performance for the Qwen3.6-35B model with llama.cpp and sharing the configuration details.
The article details the author's project of hosting a Telnet Bulletin Board System on a Casio VX-4 calculator, using BASIC programming and RS232 serial communication, sparked by their interest in amateur radio.
A guide on repairing the Nikon F100 film camera, covering documentation, tools, common parts issues, and tips to avoid damage during repair.
Researchers from UC San Diego and Oberlin College demonstrate a $100 coin-sized device that physically plugs into a Boeing 737's external port, letting attackers hijack the autopilot and spoof sensor readings, potentially causing crashes or diversions. The work is presented at the Usenix Cybersecurity Conference.
A networking enthusiast documents the process of hacking an old AT&T 3G femtocell to broadcast UMTS using JTAG, soldering, and open-source Osmocom tools.
The Assembly Hall of Shame is a GitHub project that ranks the slowest possible single x86 instructions by exploiting hardware quirks such as MMIO latency and microcode assists, achieving extreme latencies like a 62-second fxrstor64.
A detailed technical recap of attempts to turn a Raspberry Pi into a Wii U gamepad clone, highlighting Wi-Fi chipset compatibility issues and finding that an Orange Pi Zero 2W works surprisingly better.
A detailed walkthrough of rooting a TP-Link TL-841N router via UART, dumping firmware through two methods, and uncovering hardcoded credentials that persist even after a factory reset, highlighting common IoT security weaknesses.