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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Glasgow is probably the most useful tool I have access to aside from oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. So versatile and easy to adapt to the problem at hand.

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 20/07/2026

the #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD project is up on CrowdSupply! subscribe to get updates and show your interested in the project, we're very excited to bring it to life :D www.crowdsupply.com/fully-automa...

crowdsupply.com

Glasgow Interface Explorer revD

The new and improved open source multitool for digital electronics

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Got DOOM running on my Dji Osmo Nano. Didn't manage to get audio to work though which is a bit sad...

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KiCad EDA @kicad.org · 20/03/2026

KiCad version 10 is out today! Lots of features, lots of speed. We hope you like it. www.kicad.org/blog/2026/03...

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Woop, placed my order. There are a few left. Excited for the BIO 🤘

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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 18/02/2026

Very happy to announce the winners of our demoscene competition! 🏆 We had some amazing entries - check out what can be done in just a few square microns of silicon! tinytapeout.com/competitions... Thanks again to our judges and participants! #silicon #demoscene #ASIC

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Brian Fargo @brianfargo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 29/01/2026

The PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign is now live! Back the project to be among the first to get yours! PicoIDE is an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro systems. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

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PicoIDE

An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Motto for this year: do more stuff. I’ll be at FOSDEM if anyone wants to say hi. (Brussels 30/1-1/2)

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Got tired of this project but I finished the important piece of the puzzle. Should I just publish my nasty code as is, or try to keep working on it?

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Did a last minute tapeout because why not 😅 (resubmission/port of an older design). Ahh now I really want to finish some other asic projects I haven’t touched in a while. This winter will be fun.

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

So I found an old Pentium (probably 133) which sparked an idea for a project. Stupid but fun? Doesn't matter! I want to build a breakout board that lets me bring up the CPU with an FPGA. Emulate the Northbridge, interface with some external RAM, implement PCI peripherals.

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

[coffee nerd talk] I feel a bit like a failure - been dialing in a V60 brew with an 1Zpresso Q grinder and Hario filters but it keeps tasting a bit bitter no matter what I do. Gave up, brewed with a Moccamaster with standard Melitta filters and it tastes amazing. Hnggg. Should I try faster filters?

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Solder Party @solder.party · 08/11/2025

The wait is finally over, we're happy to announce that the KeebDeck Keyboard and our first product using it, the KeebDeck Basic, are now available for sale from our @lectronz.com store! ⌨️ lectronz.com/stores/solde...

A photo of the KeebDeck Keyboard keypad and dome sheet. The dome sheet has many domes visible through the white plastic, and 8 black pieces of tape to cover where the backlight LEDs would be. The Keyboard has 69 keys with the usual PC layout, and a few extra ones color symbols and colors.

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

What happens when one of the main providers that enables #opensource #silicon to thrive...shuts down? Companies like @mith.ro's new wafer.space jump in and offer an even more compelling option. $7K for 1000 chips on the GlobalFoundries GF180MCU process. Learn more: theamphour.com/703-building...

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 24/09/2025

PSA: i now consider grebedoc.dev (and the underlying git-pages server software) feature-complete and production-ready, feel free to use it for all your "not supporting Microsoft-nee-GitHub" needs (or whatever other reasons you might have)!

grebedoc.dev

Grebedoc — static site hosting for git forges

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Disassembling a new iPhone 7 pro Max and using a CNC mill to decap Friggin amazing. youtu.be/7M60g09HB1M?...

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[ASMR] Can iPhone 17 Pro Max be successfully upgraded from 256GB to 2TB?

YouTube video by DirectorFeng

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Luna @moonbase.lgbt · 20/09/2025

the Ilford HP5 Plus film branding, except the words have been replaced with their respective typefaces, "Futura Extra Bold & Futura Book"

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Friend: Do you have an FPGA board I could borrow? Me: Let me check… (Hurts a bit that I never did anything cool with the more powerful boards)

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Started working on my Nintendo DS Lite video capture to HDMI project today after weeks of zero motivation. Huzzah! Fun fact, the fastest signals here are about 10 times slower than on the N64 (~5.5 MHz vs ~50 IIRC), which reduces the risk for signal integrity problems.

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 25/07/2025

Want to help build a crowdsourced microcontroller? You're invited to design peripherals (UARTs, timers, synths, etc.) for a @riscv.org.web.brid.gy chip that will be fabbed for real! Take part for free! tinytapeout.com/competitions...

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Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding prep!!! @lina.yt · 08/07/2025

Yes, a file full of zero bits transfers faster over USB2.0 than a file full of one bits. I've known this forever but it still feels ridiculous when you actually test it and it's true! USB truly is cursed.

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Gynvael Coldwind @gynvael.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

[Please share with people outside of cybersec] Do you have a horror story when you had to deal with cybersecurity companies / people? This is your chance to vent! → forms.gle/9aX24HrfnEQm... I'm running an anonymous survey to listen to stories and look into the disconnect we sometimes have.

forms.gle

Frustration with cybersecurity people and companies

This anonymous survey if for people who are NOT working in cybersecurity and who had to contract people / buy services / buy products from companies in cybersecurity / use cybersecurity products / etc...

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Glasgow is such a great tool for interacting with hardware. Been using it a lot, and it’s both easy and fun to build custom applets for it.

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Open source DisplayPort implementations for FPGAs - what's the state of this in 2025? For me, starting out with a single line, at the lowest speed would still be cool. TX is of course interesting, but RX and protocol analyzers would also be interesting.

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Calle Svensson @zetatwo.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Does anyone have recommendations for any high quality discussion groups or communities for defensive security? Security engineering, detection engineering, DFIR, etc? Feels like there's an abundance of offense but not so much other stuff.

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Funky, no google results for NINTENDO2175. My hash is 5f855fdf258261af2a0c92d5e01e4a179e57d91acf0c3a0c0773407bd987ad8a. Yours too or do they differ?

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arturo182 @arturo182.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I've gone a bit off the deep end and added more columns and functionality. Anyway, here's 49 Pico form-factor compatible boards compared in a table. PRs welcome. arturo182.github.io/pico-compati...

arturo182.github.io

Pico Form-Factor Compatible Boards List

An ever-growing list of Pi Pico form-factor compatible dev boards.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 05/06/2025

userland ROP on day 1 💪

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Had completely missed that Infineon released new FX10/FX20 chips, making it accessible to anyone to get 10 or 20 Gbps USB for custom projects. So, what are we building this time? www.infineon.com/cms/en/produ...

infineon.com

EZ-USB™ FX - Infineon Technologies

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 08/05/2025

Take this quiz, for example stefansf.de/c-quiz/ I think you'll find at least some of the answers surprising (I know I do, and I've seen it before!).

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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 06/12/2024

Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9

A die photo of the Pentium processor with the main functional blocks labeled including the caches, instruction fetch and decode, integer execution, and floating point. The image consists of complex patterns of rectangular regions in reddish and brownish colors. The image zooms in on a small part of the floating point unit giving a detail of an adder and PLA circuit.

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

What’s your favorite tool or method to find ROP gadgets in MIPS binaries?

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Oops I bricked my device! After poking around and possibly feeding some back-currents in the wrong place, I get the following behavior: UART should run at 115200 but actually runs at 184615 baud, and gets stuck after the bootloader. What would you investigate first? Sounds like a clock-issue.

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kbeckmann.bsky.social @kbeckmann.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Alright, let's do a teardown, dump flash and such, and see how far we can get from absolutely zero of the TP-Link Archer AX12 wifi router. www.twitch.tv/kbeckmann

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kbeckmann - Twitch

Designing PCBs, building FPGA projects and writing code. Some reverse engineering too sometimes.

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stacksmashing @stacksmashing.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Is there a tool like sniffrom that supports Quad-SPI?

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jiska @naehrdine.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

How does the new iOS inactivity reboot work? What does it protect from? I reverse engineered the kernel extension and the secure enclave processor, where this feature is implemented. naehrdine.blogspot.com/2024/11/reve...

naehrdine.blogspot.com

Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot

Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology

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