This blog I’ll demonstrate how I made a prototype product in a weekend, the project “wakeup glasses” is a bit of a joke and a bit crap, but just a little bit of fun. The takeaway here isn’t the end … Continue reading
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Weekend Prototyping
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Making a PCB at home
So to start with a small disclaimer, I have only ever made this one PCB, so I am no expert! Hopefully though this might give people an insight as to how it’s done and maybe encourage others to give it … Continue reading
Breaking a smart lock
For this post we will be playing with the following: Once it arrived the first thing to do was to download the app (playstore link) connect the device, lock and unlock it a few times. It was fairly trivial and … Continue reading
Reversing an ATtiny85
I wanted to give a quick demo on how to reverse engineer an ATtiny85 micro-controller to read the code stored on the device. For this demo the “hello world” is a small circuit with four buttons. By typing in the … Continue reading
Akord / Nexx Router fun
So again, I got a cheap and nasty router from Amazon: Firstly it came without instructions, but on the bottom it has it’s default IP and credentials: Going to the IP in a web browser your presented with the most … Continue reading
SafeCrack play and build guide
Play guide To start a new game the dial should be turned clockwise.The LED under the dial will get brighter the closer you are to the goal.Once you are in the goal segment turn the dial in the opposite direction.The … Continue reading
GL iNet 300M Fun (Pt.2)
If you haven’t read Part 1 I’d recommend doing so, just to know the current state of play. But to recap, everything runs as root, it’s easy to brute force and serial is easy to identify and access dropping to … Continue reading
GL iNet 300M Fun (Pt.1)
I would like to preface this by stating that I have no idea what I am doing, I am just playing and messing around and you probably shouldn’t take my word as gospel! That being said, I feel like I’ve … Continue reading
Hardware: Oscilloscope
Yup, another little weekend electronics kit. As the title suggests, this time I’m making an oscilloscope. For those that don’t know what that is, ripped directly from google: “An oscilloscope is a laboratory instrument commonly used to display and analyze … Continue reading
Hardware: Signal Generator
So this’ll just be a quick blog on my Saturday project. As the title suggests I built a signal generator kit.It came packaged like this: I decided the best thing to do was to split all the components out and … Continue reading
Basic Hardware / Electronics Set-Up
So I know some basic electronics, I’ve fabricated some PCB’s, Built some kits and taken apart many a thing. I would definitely call myself a beginner though! I want this to change. So I have created a little space to … Continue reading
Sony VAIO TZ series fan repair
My laptop, as you may have guessed, is a Sony VAIO TZ series (specifically VGN-TZ31VN) Not a cheap piece of equipment, I got it on the same month as it was released. There are a lot of people that absolutely … Continue reading