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  1. Si comme moi vous ne connaissez pas le PIC24FJ128 et êtes assez fou pour tenter de le programmer/bidouiller sous Linux, viendez sur Twitch (twitch.tv/virtualabs) ou mon instance Peertube (live.virtualabs.fr/w/gr5P6UC18), ça commence dans quelques minutes !

    #hardwarehacking #electronics

  2. Le planning des streams de la semaine est là 👇

    Ce soir c'est soudure de circuit imprimé (cible pour du glitching) et peut-être début d'exploration, et jeudi soir on continue les tests sur le répéteur WiFi à base de chip Mediatek MT7628KN pour lui coller un U-Boot récent 😅.

    Rendez-vous ce soir et jeudi soir à partir de 21h sur Twitch et mon instance Peertube pour suivre tout ça !

    #hardwarehacking #soudure

  3. Hacking Consumer Drones: From Flash Dumping to Root Exploits
    Full chain on the Potensic Atom 2: Flash dumping → corrupted firmware recovery → RF protocol RE → remote root.
    Tim Schmidt shows the real hardware + software exploit process, end to end.
    #HardwareHacking #IoT

  4. Ce soir on s'occupe d'un répéteur WiFi pas cher qui fait tourner un petit Linux sur un SoC Mediatek, et ça risque d'être drôle 😅.

    Ça commence dans quelques minutes sur twitch.tv/virtualabs et :peertube: live.virtualabs.fr/w/gr5P6UC18 😊

    #hardwarehacking #electronics #reverse

  5. C'est parti pour le stream du mardi soir, et ça se passe sur twitch.tv/virtualabs et :peertube: live.virtualabs.fr/w/gr5P6UC18 😊 !

    Au menu ce soir, du blabla après 3 semaines de vacances et la version 4.1 du circuit imprimé de la console chinoise 🥳

    Viendez, ça va être chill !

    #electronics #hardwarehacking

  6. Crowd Supply's annual flagship event, #Teardown2026, was the biggest and most ambitious yet! This celebration of #OpenSource #HardwareHacking took place in #CrowdSupply’s home base of Portland, and featured 41 talks, workshops, and skill shares, 47 demo tables and installations, plus over 450 delightful attendees. Satellite events included food trucks, a hangout at the Ctrl-H #hackerspace, and a live performance by musicians and sound #hackers! Read my recap here:

    hackster.io/news/an-out-of-thi

  7. Cette semaine c'est la reprise des streams, et ça commence en douceur avec la finalisation (la vraie cette fois) du circuit imprimé de la console chinoise et l'analyse du système d'un répéteur WiFi d'AliExpress 😁.

    On se voit à 21h demain soir !

    #hardwarehacking #electronics

  8. I've made some adjustments to the solar powered LLM server. I'd say these are pretty good stats (91.5 tps) for a DDR3 platformed LLM server.

    Hardware:
    Intel Core i7-3930K CPU 6C/12T
    Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 Rev. 1.0 E-ATX Motherboard
    64GB DDR3 RAM composed of 8 matching 8GB modules
    3 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Blower GPUs
    Corsair RM1000e 1000W Power Supply
    240GB SATA OS SSD Boot Drive
    3 x 1TB SATA SSDs in RAID 0
    Advantech Industrial Computer 510 Case

    Software:
    Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS headless
    Netplan
    NetBird VPN
    Samba
    Python 3.12 virtual environment
    Docker
    Unsloth Studio
    Hermes Agent
    Home Assistant (separate server)

    #solarai #decentralized #smarthome #homeassistant #hermes #Unsloth #LocalAI #SelfHosted #Homelab #BudgetBuild #HardwareHacking

  9. 🎮🔧VR Airsoft Controllers – Talk, Demo and Hands-On Session at TOG

    On Saturday, 29 August, we’ll be joined by the creator behind the VR-Firearms YouTube channel for an afternoon exploring custom-built physical controllers for virtual reality.

    There’ll be a short talk on the development of the project, a look at the hardware, a live VR demonstration and most importantly, an opportunity to try the controllers yourself.

    tog.ie/2026/08/vr-airsoft-cont

    #VR #VirtualReality #HardwareHacking #Makers #Dublin

  10. I want to build a 80x25 character display of out of 16 segment (plus dot) white LED modules.

    I found some four character modules that are 40.4x16mm, so I could do 40 80.8x80mm boards for a total of 808x400mm, and based on the 5mA per segment at 3V, about 500W max power draw, though multiplexing seems obligatory here.

    The problem is I would have to solder tens of thousands of connections since SMD versions of these don't seem to exist.

    But... think of the Bad Apple!! potential!

    cc @gsuberland

    #HardwareHacking #Electronics

  11. Ah, yes, because nothing screams "cutting-edge tech" quite like a digital sermon on hacking doorbells. 🙄 Apparently, in the thrilling world of #soundwaves and hidden WiFi, owls and firmware are the new dynamic duo. 🎉 But fear not, dear reader, for they shall preach the gospel of house-bound hardware hacking to those who dare to care. 🦉🔧
    adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-doorbell-h #cuttingEdgeTech #digitalSermon #hardwareHacking #firmwareFun #HackerNews #ngated

  12. And we're off! The #DC34 HHV CTF starts now!
    Come by HHV and jump in - our friends will be glad you did... #furbtar
    #hardwarehacking #ctf @defcon

  13. Putting the final touches on HHV/SSV for #dc34.
    Come hang out, learn some new skills and hack on some hardware with us!
    @defcon #hardwarehacking

  14. 📚🤔 Oh, sure! Let's just casually reverse-engineer an #ASIC in our spare time—because that's totally what normal people do, right? Let's just ignore the fact that it's like trying to unravel a ball of yarn that's been tangled by a hyperactive kitten. 🙄💻
    blog.janestreet.com/can-you-re #reverseengineering #hobbyprojects #techhumor #programming #challenges #hardwarehacking #HackerNews #ngated

  15. Ready to break things? 🛠️ Drop by HHV this Friday & Saturday for some hands-on demos by WeAreAJ & PwnMonger!
    We’re covering:
    UART Exploration & Exploitation
    Firmware Dumping
    Hardware Persistence
    Timing Side-Channels demo
    When: Fri 2:00 - 4:00 PDT
    #HardwareHacking @defcon #dc34

  16. 🚀🔍 "Hardware hacking for dummies: a riveting tale of how to waste $10 on a TP-Link router no one asked for. 🤖🔧 Apparently, it's 2026, and we're still diving into firmware like it's the 90s, because why not? 🤷‍♂️🔥"
    blog.juni-mp4.com/posts/42/roo #HardwareHacking #TPLinkRouter #FirmwareFun #TechNostalgia #DIYProjects #2026Adventures #HackerNews #ngated

  17. I am hard choosing #Pinecil or Alientek T90A.

    They are ≈ $54.5, $51.5, with 3 tips respectively.

    T90A has c210 tips(seem to be cheaper) It has a cylindrical cap for the tip, so it is safe to carry.
    Also comes with USB C cable.

    But Pinecil v2 is OSHW, FLOSS.

    I will be doing probably some modules, PCB, perfboard, not thick wires soldering. Occasional micro soldering to hack devices.

    T90 has N32L403 MCU.
    Maybe it is an opportunity for me to develop :rust: PAC and HAL for this MCU.
    There are official datashits and C code.
    Also community made iron schematic.

    But this will take a lot of time, I am already kind of busy with school, robotics, math. Reverse Engineering is addictive.

    What would you choose in my place?

    #solderingiron #solderingtips #soldering #hardwarehacking

  18. Y'all. My solar powered Hermes debugged itself. SpeechToText was broken. Turns out VRAM was full because I made the LLM context bigger, so the STT model couldn't load. In the end, I used a smaller model and put it back on GPU, but check out what Hermes did autonomously when I told it to fix itself:

    -The AI found that the system's GPUs were completely out of memory, causing the local speech-to-text tool to crash.
    -It switched the setting to use the CPU instead.
    -The change failed at first because the underlying code ignored the new setting.
    -The AI located and fixed these bugs, updated the code to correctly read the CPU setting, and restarted the system.
    -After reloading, the system successfully transcribed voice messages.

    Folks, LLMs may not be "intelligent" but they're capable at specific tasks. I checked Hermes code on Github and found this actual bug is real !!

    #solarai #decentralized #smarthome #homeassistant #hermes_agent #oogabooga #LocalAI #SelfHosted #Homelab #BudgetBuild, #HardwareHacking

  19. The local solar powered AI server is tweaked pretty good - the 3x 2080 ti being able to pull near 750w is literally all 3 at max power combined. All on DDR3/PCIe3. And folks told me it would be slow 😆 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_M.gguf is the model of choice for now, and grants a 256k context window.

    #solarai #decentralized #smarthome #homeassistant #hermes_agent #oogabooga #LocalAI #SelfHosted #Homelab #BudgetBuild, #HardwareHacking

  20. Everyone loves to see cool hardware hacks, but nobody talks about how much stuff we buy and either don't get around to or don't manage to hack it. 😅
    #hardwarehacking

  21. Took a 2015 13" MacBook Pro with a dead display and turned it into a "headless" Mac desktop setup!

    I removed the entire screen assembly, wired it up over HDMI, and installed macOS 13 Ventura.

    Catch the full video on YouTube or self-hosted PeerTube:

    PeerTube: tube.devwithzachary.com/w/ueTW

    YouTube: youtu.be/OocWCLqbPCs

    #MacBook #OpenCore #TechRestoration #HardwareHacking #SelfHosted #PeerTube #macOS #HeadlessMac