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Crazy Hacks #3: How 3 of Nintendo’s consoles got defeated by everyday-life household items

Each one of these hacks deserves its own article, and many things have been said about them already, but the unreal aspect of being able to defeat software security with very simple objects means we had to bundle these three together: This is the story of how the Nintendo’s Wii, 3DS, and Nintendo

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Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet

I built a device that allows a pinball machine from 1984 to automatically upload scores to the internet. The device taps into the machine’s memory bus and monitors the game state, uploading scores after each game. Growing up, my family owned an old pinball machine, a 1974 Williams Strato-Flite.

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YouTube As Infinite File Storage

Anyone who was lucky enough to secure a Gmail invite back in early 2004 would have gasped in wonder at the storage on offer, a whole gigabyte! Nearly two decades later there’s more storage to be had for free from Google and its competitors, but it’s still relatively easy to hit the paid tier.

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Linux Arcade Cab Gives Up Its Secrets Too Easily

Sometimes reverse engineering embedded systems can be a right old faff, with you needing to resort to all kinds of tricks such as power glitching in order to poke a tiny hole in the armour, giving you an way in. And, sometimes the door is just plain wide open.

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Old School Minitel Laptop

On this Instructables, I will explain how I manage to convert an old Minitel to a “brand new” laptop ideal for taking notes in college ^^. This project was one of the first I made, so the wiring is not perfect and some photos are missing, but the overall idea of ​​the project is here.

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Raspberry Pi With Some Serious Graphical Muscle

[Jeff Geerling] routinely tinkers around with Raspberry Pi compute module, which unlike the regular RPi 4, includes a PCI-e lane. With some luck, he was able to obtain an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU card and decided to try and plug it into the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module.

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