Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs(downtowndougbrown.com)

68 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 3 comments

Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra(downtowndougbrown.com)

449 points by miles 2 years ago | 84 comments

Blog post by Doug Brown describing diagnosing and repairing a broken Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device, including firmware reverse engineering with Ghidra.

Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found(downtowndougbrown.com)

267 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 88 comments

How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s(downtowndougbrown.com)

178 points by SerCe 2 years ago | 76 comments

The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory(downtowndougbrown.com)

488 points by zdw 1 year ago | 220 comments

Blog post investigating whether Apple installed a capacitor backwards at the factory in the Macintosh LC III and Performa 450-467, analyzing the circuit.

Building Alex Taradov’s open-source USB sniffer(downtowndougbrown.com)

106 points by zdw 3 years ago | 14 comments