







Before we dive in, I should let you know that I'm a designer. I have no business hacking firmware to make devices perform jobs they were never intended for, but I do love tinkering with physical...
Better cooking starts here
New! 2nd Gen Predictive Thermometer – 8 sensors • 900ºF • WiFi Enabled.

Hacking Cheap Smart Photo Frames into a Family Dashboard
My sister's $500 Skylight calendar was headed for the trash with dead Wi-Fi. I used a coding agent to root it, found a hidden debug mode,...
Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
Incident hitting 700 supermarkets exploited outdated devices exposed to the Internet.

UV Enlargers - Part01: A 100W UV light source
GitHub - atc1441/ATC_MiThermometer: Custom firmware for the Xiaomi Thermometer LYWSD03MMC and Telink Flasher via USB to Serial converter
Custom firmware for the Xiaomi Thermometer LYWSD03MMC and Telink Flasher via USB to Serial converter - atc1441/ATC_MiThermometer

Frank — Hotdog detector
Take a camera snapshot or upload a photo or video for a hotdog classification with Clef.

(PDF) A Kit-of-No-Parts Poster2
PDF | When we build electronics from discrete components our designs are shaped by their standardized forms and func- tionalities. While datasheets... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology
I expect our global supply chain to collapse before we reach 2030. With this collapse, we won't be able to produce most of our electronics because their production depends on a very complex supply chain that we won't be able to achieve again for decades (ever?).
Everything I own, owned
Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.

my room-temperature take is that you don't need a custom ROM to do this the same end result can be accomplished on stock android with an on-device "account vault" style app using a common API to communicate with other apps that support that SSO schema, no system access or custom ROM required
Scooty
Happy Friday! I've been building towards an "Atmosphere OS", where my atproto account is the identity layer on a real phone. I wrote a little bit about it here:
JP (@byjp.me)