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Reprogramming a Audio Knob to build a SDR VFO Knob

“I recently wanted to get a VFO knob to be able to better adjust the Frequency of my SDRs for SSB Signals on Shortwave or QO100 for example. You can use the Mouse Wheel on a PC, but on a …

DIY Internet of Things Fire Alarm

“I purchased a battery operated smoke/fire alarm few days ago and it showed up today. It runs on 9V and will make a loud sound if smoke is detected. My intention was to hook it up with my home …

Pwnagotchi: Deep Reinforcement Learning For Wifi Pwning!

“Pwnagotchi is an A2C-based “AI” powered by bettercap and running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W that learns from its surrounding WiFi environment in order to maximize the crackable WPA key material it captures (either through passive sniffing or …

20$ Pocket router as Domoticz Home Automation Gateway

“TLDR; I built a openwrt based custom firmware(autom8box), that packs router_functionality+domoticz_server+mqtt_broker which is all-in-one home-automation-gateway-solution running on a cheap $20 router that can be purchased off-the-shelf. Wifi based home automation products are cheaper compared to zigbee or …

TS100 Oscilloscope hack

“This post describes my modification of a TS100 soldering iron that transforms it into an oscilloscope. The changes are mostly made in software. Readers of my blog will know that I have a weakness for modifying things to serve a …

Replacing a dead lithium cell in the DS1387

“While most PCs use a RTC/CMOS chip that has an external battery, many industrial x86 computers use RTC/NVRAM modules. They’re convenient when new, since the battery and RTC crystal are encapsulated into the module. The module’s …

0.000011574HZ

“What is the lowest possible clock frequency at which a microcontroller can still do useful work? Here’s a little project that attempts to explore this weird question. A couple of years ago, while I was studying the then-Atmel ATtiny85 …

Exploiting PSoC4 for fun and profit

“This article explains how I figured out how Cypress’s jury-rigged “supervisor” mode in the PSoC4 family works, dumped the secret unreadable SROM, exploited it, and found a way to unlock extra flash in the PSoC4 as well as how …

Getting the T-Rex Endless Runner to work on a Component Tester

“Some time ago I got one of these transistor testers on eBay for around 10$. It is quite useful, specially because my multimeter does not measure capacitance or inductance. I did a samll write up about it in portuguese here …

PS3 Combo Shotter Arduino hack

“This is a modified PS3 sixaxis clone controller in which, 8 external buttons added to cammand Arduino Pro Mini 3.3V to trigger 8 different series of buttons. one after another. This code series are hard coded to an array …