Hardware Podcasts

040 - Uh-tastic

Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast · 4 Oct 2020 · 26m

What this episode covers

Hosts Jen Castillo and Alvaro Prieto discuss upcoming hardware hacking events like Hackaday Supercon and Remoticon, highlighting workshops on PCB reverse engineering and Tiny ML. They review technical resources including John McMaster’s firmware extraction tutorials, Memfault’s tool for estimating firmware size, and NCC Group’s Depthcharge toolkit for U-Boot. The conversation also covers Chris Gammell’s open design reviews, Eric Schlepfer’s PG&E failure analysis thread, and the history of NES and SNES cartridge reverse engineering.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Hackaday, Memfault, NCC Group, PG&E
Products
NES, SNES
Also
Remoticon, John McMaster, Ken Shirriff, Chris Gammell, U-Boot

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