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I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Post by hw-f3nter »

rubslopes wrote: post #39

Please remember to write "Show HN:" when submitting your own content.

I was thinking about it, but the Guidelines include this:

>Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

so I made a regular submission, as I think HardBreak is reading material. @Mods feel free to move my post, if this is considered a Show HN post.

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Post by david_shaw »

This is great.

I've always been on the application security side of things, but I'm increasingly interested in hardware hacking. Through some cursory research, I learned that there are a few scattered resources, but the best way to learn is to really work with someone who knows what they're doing.

Putting all these guides, roadmaps, etc. together in a single place is a great resource that I'll definitely use.

Thank you!

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Post by findyourexit »

polalavik wrote: post #2

This is rad! I’ll throw this in my embedded resources round up [1] https://hardwareteams.com/docs/embedded/embedded-resources/

Whoa! Very much appreciated!

Fantastic round-up with loads of useful inclusions. Thanks for sharing!

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Post by hi_hi »

This is great timing. I recently purchased a micro:bit for learning with my young daughter (who loves it) and found I was very quickly out of my depth with even the most rudimentary customisation for the board.

My draws have now exploded with breadboards, alligator clips, jump wires, LCDs and various other electrical components and I'm in desperate need of understanding the fundamentals of how all these things work.

There's something magical and addictive about being able to control your own hardware components from your own code though. We've had great joy from simply lighting up LEDs and programming our IR receiver.

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Post by amatecha »

A minor nitpick, but it would be great if you put a description of the site in the meta/og description[0] so people get an explanation of what the site is when linking elsewhere, e.g. the same "This page is a free and open-source wiki about hardware hacking!" as is on the page itself. I just linked the site in Slack and it just says "hardbreak.wiki / Welcome to HardBreak | Hardbreak" which is pretty terse. I imagine there might be some setting in your wiki software that might populate these tags automatically (moreso than they already have), with any luck!

[0] https://ogp.me/

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Joel_Mckay wrote: post #8
spidersouris wrote: post #3

Thanks for the wiki -- I have always been interested in hardware hacking but I have always felt overwhelmed as I didn't know where to start. I believe this kind of resource can greatly help with that, especially the case studies. However, I can't help but feel that a major part of the content is LLM-generated, or at least LLM-rewritten. It feels off and uninteresting to read, honestly. Is it the case? To support my c…

Get a ham radio technician license, and you may develop an intuitive perspective on most electrical engineering concepts. i.e. the physics lab derivation of the core EE tool set is unnecessary if you understand what the models are describing. AI is slop in and slop out... and dangerous to students... =3 John Shive's Wave Machines is where every student should start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovunOxlY1k

> Get a ham radio technician license, and you may develop an intuitive perspective on most electrical engineering concepts.

May. I managed to get one without developing much intuition for most EE concepts, unfortunately.

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Post by ajot »

hw-f3nter wrote: post #10
abetusk wrote: post #6

Unfortunately not Open Source, in the common definition of the word. From the license.md [0] page, under "Terms": > Exemptions: Commercial Use: For inquiries regarding commercial use, please contact the author. [0] https://github.com/f3nter/HardBreak/blob/fd3d2d4cd17624a3f62...

I just don't want anyone to copy the content and sell it. It's meant to be freely accessible to everyone.

Have you thought of a Creative Commons license? You can have a Non-Commercial clause, while letting others to cooperate with you and remix the information in your site. CC licenses are IMHO better suited for documents than things like GPL, BSD or MIT.

https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Post by megous »

nerdile wrote: post #12
hw-f3nter wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just don't want anyone to copy the content and sell it. It's meant to be freely accessible to everyone.

That's fine. It's just not open source. Don't call it open source if it's not. Definition: https://opensource.org/osd

I mean this lists MIT license as opensource license, when it's clearly not, because it doesn't at all mention source code. The license just talks about "software".

Anyone is free to publish only binaries+docs under this license, if they wish.

So the website is not very accurate.

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