Archive of posts with category 'Reverse Engineering'

Logging a Cheap Air Quality Monitor

With fire season approaching in California I wanted to get a air quality monitor to see how bad the air is over time. I thought I’d do another reverse engineering...

Adding Wifi to a Weather Station

I bought a cheap weather station with the intent of adding networked data logging. I ended up reverse engineering both the RF transmission, as well as the inter-chip communication at...

Dashboard to See Dice Stats from Roll20

Unsurprisingly, I am a member of a DnD (Pathfinder actually) group. During the pandemic we switch to playing online with a service called Roll20. We would often joke about the...

Hacking a Yo Digital Microscope

Since the last article was on the female side of fertility why not switch to the male? Yo produces a test kit to measure sperm count. It’s main selling point...

Tearing Down a Digital Ovulation Tester

In starting to try to have a baby, my wife got a digital device to track her hormones. Who am I to turn down an opportunity to reverse engineer something?...

Scraping a web journal with Selenium

Last year I kept a daily journal using the Journey android app. After falling off the wagon, I wanted to export my entries to a more durable format, so I...

Hacking Capture the Flags

I’ve been learning the basics of penetration testing and reverse engineering by doing capture the flag (CTF) puzzles.

Side-channel Attacks Using the Chipwhisperer

I finally had a chance to dig into the chipwhisperer. It’s a learning tool to teach about hardware security vulnerabilities like Side-channel attacks.

Autonomous Drifting RC Car

As part of a project for the machine learning lab at Cornell, I did the hardware and some of the software to make a stock RC car autonomously drift though...