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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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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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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I’d recently bought a new XPS13 7390 (non 2-in-1) laptop. I had bought the 8GB variant, how hard could it be to upgrade? I use my laptop for KiCad PCB design, compiling embedded firmware, and FPGA synthesis. None of these really use that much RAM.
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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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[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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A university student who played with the PVC Water Pipe Tron Controller at a party said “That’s OK… but I like to play driving games”.
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We wouldn’t be where we are today without Mrs. Coldiron’s middle school typing class. Even though she may have wanted to, she never did use negative reinforcement to improve our typing speed or technique.
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Introducing the Labo Fit Adventure Kart Kit: a full-body exercise experience for Mario Kart! This kit allows you to control your kart by pedaling on the Bike-Con and steering and using items with the Ring-Con. This is a fully-functional concept product that I developed myself.
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The Canon EOS R5 is a highly capable, and correspondingly very expensive, DSLR camera. Capable of recording video in 8K in a compact frame size, it unfortunately suffers from frustrating overheating issues.
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