Reverse Engineering
The author bought a cheap children's camera for his 3-year-old, but the menu was too complex. He reverse-engineered the unknown HX3302B processor, identified it as a little-endian OpenRISC-1000, and patched the firmware to boot directly into camera mode.
Reverse Engineering
A developer reverse-engineers Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader's multi-layered text obfuscation system, using perceptual hashing and SSIM to decode 361 unique glyphs across 184 randomized alphabet sets and recover a full EPUB from a purchased e-book.
Reverse Engineering
Continuing the investigation into Brick Game handheld consoles, the author decapsulates microcontroller dies, reads ROM contents through an optical microscope, and builds a working emulator from the recovered firmware.