#reverse engineering

A Ridiculous Journey to Set the Clock in a 2014 Renault

As difficult as it may be to believe, it’s not possible to adjust the time on a 2014 Renault Latitude’s in-dash navigation system unless you have an original SD card …read more

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Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom

Kyle Orland, writing at Ars Technica, reports that Anthropic has added a rule to Claude Code’s system prompt to keep the model from re-creating specific existing video games. The rule, spotted in a json file named “tengu_heron_brook” around October 27, tells Claude to build original games, genre games and games from a user’s own designs […]

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Pulling on a thread (Using Thread on Ikea Sensors)

Ben Hardill wanted to read a pair of IKEA ALPSTUGA CO2 sensors from Node-RED, and wrote up what it took on his blog. The sensors are part of IKEA’s second generation of smart devices, so they use Thread radios instead of Zigbee. That rules out the old Trådfri Hub and Zigbee2MQTT. Thread runs an IPv6 […]

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Developing retro-GUIs for Win3.11 and OS/2

Chris, writing at chrisdevblog.com, built GUI apps for Windows 3.11 and OS/2 Warp 3 to control his microcontroller projects on real period hardware. He started with Borland Delphi 1 from 1995, the first and last Delphi that made 16-bit Windows programs. That worked right away, so he switched to Microsoft Visual C++ 1.52 from 1993, […]

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A hackable analog phone system for your home

Major Hack’s Analog Redial project on Hackaday.io turns one or two old telephones, rotary or touch-tone, into a working phone system. The board supplies real dial tone and ringing, lets the phones call each other, and includes an answering machine. Dial codes are set up from a web page, and you can upload your own […]

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frank-xt8086: RP2350B firmware acts as the chipset for a real Intel 8086

rh1tech (Mikhail Matveev) has published the first release of frank-xt8086 on GitHub. It’s firmware for the xt8086 board, where a Raspberry Pi RP2350B microcontroller acts as the whole chipset around a real Intel 8086 or NEC V20 processor. That means the RP2350B handles the support hardware an early PC needed, while the original CPU does […]

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The Partner-N64PC dev kit for Nintendo 64

Gerry at Behind The Code has a look at the Partner-N64PC, a Nintendo 64 development kit built for Nintendo by Kyoto Microcomputer. It’s a large cartridge that connects to a PC through a ribbon cable and an ISA or PCI interface card, with debugger software running on Windows 95/98. A second version, the Partner-N64NW, worked […]

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Rooting an Amazon Echo Dot

Julian Imhof, writing on andystechlab.dev, turned a 2018 Echo Dot 3 into a local Home Assistant voice satellite. Amazon cloud isn’t used in handling the voice commands. The work needs a Linux computer, an open-source project, and a USB cable soldered to the board. The Echo Dot doesn’t have a USB socket, so the USB […]

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