Conferences and tradeshows are a staple of Silicon Valley, with no shortage of billboards along the Highway 101 corridor between San Francisco and San Jose announcing the next date and location. As ...

This repository contains a customized version of the Arduino bootloader firmware with watchdog timer (WDT) support. The stock Arduino bootloader introduces a couple of seconds of delay during boot in ...

Making an Arduino shield can be simpler than you think. This time I designed one to program Attiny and Atmega ...

Optiboot (an older version) is installed by default on the Arduino Uno and (as of 2018) official Arduino Nano boards. It can be installed on all older mega8, 168 or 328 based Arduinos. As of 2019, ...

Making airplanes with foam board is really handy since this material is very cheap, easy to work with, and durable. It's the same material the channel Flite Test uses in their builds. I recently tried ...

SparkFun Thing Plus - ESP32-C5 is an Adafruit Feather-compatible board with dual-band WiFi 6, BLE, 802.15.4 radio, and LiPo battery support ...

There are plenty of drones (and other gadgets) you can buy online that use proprietary control protocols. Of course, reverse-engineering one of these protocols is a hacker community classic. Today, ...

Modern technology builds on abstractions. Most application programmers today don’t know what a non-maskable interrupt is, nor should they have to. Even fewer understand register coloring or ...

A new Qualcomm GBL exploit is reportedly affecting Qualcomm SoCs, mainly the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. This enables bootloader unlocking on flagship phones that were previously difficult to ...

A vulnerability in Qualcomm’s Android Bootloader implementation allows unsigned code to run via the “efisp” partition on Android 16 devices. This is paired with a “fastboot” command oversight to ...

EasyBCD is a robust tool for modifying the Windows bootloader. It is incredibly useful and gives you unrivaled customization capabilities over one of the most delicate programs on your Windows 11/10 ...

If you recently moved from BIOS to UEFI and you cannot boot your computer since then, here is how you can repair the EFI bootloader in Windows 11/10. It is pretty easy to repair the EFI bootloader ...