Advanced Hardware Hacking Techniques

This presentation looks at advanced hardware hacking and reverse engineering techniques. We'll examine the steps taken by designers to incorporate security into their hardware products and then discuss ways to attack them.

Slides: Advanced Hardware Hacking Techniques

Emic Text-to-Speech Module

The Emic Text-to-Speech Module is a fully-integrated solution that converts digital text into a high-quality English-speaking voice using concatenative synthesis. The module provides a simple interface to a PC, BASIC Stamp, Javelin Stamp, Microchip PIC, or other processor. Voice speed, volume, pitch, and phonetic control can all be adjusted by …

Hacking Barney

Originally entitled "Hacking Plush Toys: Dissection and Reverse Engineering," this article describes a step-by-step approach to hacking and modifying toys to do things they weren't intended to do. The Playskool Talking Barney, the lovable purple beast, is used as an example.

Paper: Happy Hacking: Moody Furballs and the Developers …

Icom 2SRA Discriminator Output Modification

The Icom 2SRA is a 144MHz FM transciever and wideband (50-905MHz) receiver HT, ideal for mobile communications and ham radio. With the increasing popularity in digital data monitoring, using protocols such as POCSAG, FLEX, and MDT4800, audio signals from the speaker output are noisy and not suitable for digital decoding. …