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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 teatkin »

Fokamul wrote: post #80

Omg, wiki is recommending "Bus Pirate", this HW is many years old and basically abandoned project. Use something up-to-date, like Tigard and BitMagic.

Ian Lesnet/Dangerous Prototypes have within the last few months released the v5 Bus Pirate. Looks like he and the Dangerous Prototypes team might have taken on different ventures, but Ian has come back to the Bus Pirate.

On a personal note, I think the v5 hardware is pretty good, worth having alongside a Tigard since they are all so cheap anyway.

Edit: Apparently there's now a v5 XL and a v6 based on the RP2350 been released too, seems to be revived

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

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Post by RobotToaster »

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

At least in the UK you can't if you're a linux user, the software they use to spy on you while taking the test is windows only.

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

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Post by 0xEF »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #47
Joel_Mckay wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Were you also completely turned off by the community?

I ask because I got into it about 15+ years ago for the purposes of helping with emergency comms and learning more about electronics, but found the community extremely hostile toward new comers that did not have money to burn on expensive gear. I ended up just giving up on it after a few years after investing in a bunch of Arduino stuff and learned far more about EE than I ever did playing at radio. The concept of the Elmer seemed dead, leaving nobody who wanted to show the new guys the ropes.

From what I understand, maybe that has changed in recent years?

Weirdly, I did take something away from my experience with ham radio; I know an awful lot about the weather and atmosphere now, which has turned into a lasting interest.

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

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Post by Lerc »

tecleandor wrote: post #79
Lerc wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never understood why the failure to answer the strawberry question has seen as a compelling argument as to the limits of AI. The AIs that suffer from this problem have difficulty counting. That has never been denied. Those AI's also do not see the letters of the words they are processing. Counting the letters in a word is a task that it is quite unsurprising that it fails. I Would say it is more surprising tha…

The AIs that suffer from this problem have difficulty counting. Nope, its not a counting problem. It's a reasoning problem. Thing is, no matter how much hype they get, the AIs have no reasoning capabilities at all, and they can fail in the silliest ways. Same as with Larry Ellison: Don't fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing the AI.

Ok, give me an example of what you would consider reasoning.

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

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Post by cushychicken »

0xEF wrote: post #83
TeMPOraL wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Were you also completely turned off by the community? I ask because I got into it about 15+ years ago for the purposes of helping with emergency comms and learning more about electronics, but found the community extremely hostile toward new comers that did not have money to burn on expensive gear. I ended up just giving up on it after a few years after investing in a bunch of Arduino stuff and learned far more about…

Ham radio's decline is more than explainable as a cultural issue.

The culture of every internet forum I've ever visited for it is absolutely deplorable. It seems like each one has a handful of really grouchy old gatekeepers who lie in wait to absolutely dunk on newcomers.

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

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Post by 0xEF »

cushychicken wrote: post #85
0xEF wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were you also completely turned off by the community? I ask because I got into it about 15+ years ago for the purposes of helping with emergency comms and learning more about electronics, but found the community extremely hostile toward new comers that did not have money to burn on expensive gear. I ended up just giving up on it after a few years after investing in a bunch of Arduino stuff and learned far more about…

Ham radio's decline is more than explainable as a cultural issue. The culture of every internet forum I've ever visited for it is absolutely deplorable. It seems like each one has a handful of really grouchy old gatekeepers who lie in wait to absolutely dunk on newcomers.

We agree, but I suppose my next question would be why? What happened to turn these guys (or ham radio culture at large) into grouchy old gatekeepers? I'm generalizing, of course, but they were like that when I arrived. I can't imagine the hobby was always like that, especially seeing some of the old literature from the 50's and 60's in the US, which was very encouraging of mentoring and sharing info.

If it's still the same today as it was back when I tried it out, that's a shame, because ham radio is absolutely full of hardware hacking opportunities. Heck, you can make an antenna out of a retractable tape measure.

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

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Post by 0xEF »

JoeDaDude wrote: post #45

Nice! Hopefully it will grow to include circuit bending [1] techniques, those typically used for altering music machines and similar. [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending

Just in case folks are curious, a circuit bending wiki does exist:

https://circuitbending.miraheze.org/wiki/Circuit_Bending

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

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Post by 0xEF »

Over2Chars wrote: post #72

The wiki is free and open-source? Or the contents of the wiki are free and open-source? If it's a wiki, it would be less than courteous to restrictively copyright public contributions (but I'm sure it's been done). And presumably, paywalling it would reduce contributions. My impression as to the number one barrier to hardware modifications is soldering . For some reason people can't or won't do it. So I'd like to int…

The Pinecil is great, but is definitely a terrible recommendation for anyone new to soldering. If you're trying to encourage people to learn to solder, they should be doing it with a proper station that can handle and maintain temp for extended periods. I have a Pinecil, but it's really only useful for quick on-the-fly jobs (which it excels at, in my experience) so it stays in my tool bag for work. It suffers from overheating and temperature changes for more lengthy jobs.

Otherwise, yeah, if you're already competent at soldering and need a pocket-sized iron that you can create a portable power supply for, invest in a Pinecil

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

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Post by numpad0 »

mindcrime wrote: post #60
Joel_Mckay wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every model is deprecated in time if evidenced Science is done well, and hopefully replaced by something more accurate in time. There is no absolute right/correctness unless you are a naive child under 25 cheating on structured homework. The point was there is nothing intelligent (or AI) about LLMs except the person fooling themselves. In general, most template libraries already implement the best possible algorithms…

I have no position on whether or not CamperBob is a chat-bot, but they are definitely not being silly. Their point, as I take it, is that it's dangerous to look at the state of "AI" as it is today and then ignore the rate of change . To their stated point from above: > Otherwise, you're going to spend the rest of your career saying things like, "Well, OK, so the last model couldn't count the number of Rs in 'Strawber…

> it's dangerous to look at the state of "AI" as it is today and then ignore the rate of change.

It's self driving all over again!

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

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Post by rubslopes »

hw-f3nter wrote: post #41
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.

I think you are right! I stand corrected.
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