MG @mg.lol · 31/08/2026Honestly, it’s terrifying. But also incredible! Thanks to everyone who has supported this over the years. It started as a proof of concept. But your support allowed it to keep evolving & pushing new boundaries. Performance has grown exponentially… all while LOOKING like it doesn’t do anything 😂 060
MG @mg.lol · 31/08/2026The industry has been chaotic lately with layoffs everywhere. My wife was laid off 6mo ago. It’s been 1.5yrs since the entire Red Team got cut from my corp job. It means something surreal: the weird project I started in my garage is now supporting our entire family. 170
MG @mg.lol · 31/08/2026I’m here! 🐘 mg@infosec.exchange too. But posting very infrequently. Lack of video support here adds to the friction. Looks like I forgot to cross post this one: infosec.exchange/@mg/11618574...infosec.exchangeMG (@mg@infosec.exchange)The industry has been chaotic lately with layoffs everywhere. My wife was just laid off, and it’s been a year since my entire Red Team got cut from my old corp job. It means something surreal: the we... 210
MG @mg.lol · 21/06/2026Great approach. I’ve been wondering how things have evolved for you on this front. 020
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025Yep. I feel that way about most of the abstraction layers that keep getting added. It’s feels a bit suffocating. Getting down to this level of simplicity always feels… pure. Like going hiking after being stuck in a busy city. 000
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025This specific bot is part of a whole class called BEAM bots. They all have a similar design philosophy, but this was always my favorite one. (🧵) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_ro...en.wikipedia.orgBEAM robotics - Wikipedia 050
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025I definitely pulled a lot of the spirit of this design approach when creating the OMG Cable. Fun little “you can’t do that” hacks, extreme minimalism, focus on aesthetics, etc. So it was pretty cool finding this little bot in storage just now! (🧵) 250
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025One of the FLEDs decayed a bit faster than the other, and they are no longer balanced. That means one eye will always be too slow to charge up the circuit and steer the opposite direction. Sure, you could add calibration components to compensate for any imbalance, but it’s not as minimal. (🧵) 130
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025The FLEDs aren’t designed to act as tiny solar panels, we are just using them “off label”. The solar performance of the FLEDs slowly decays and at different rates. (🧵) 140
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025Here is a video of this bot in action. Notice how it is only kicking one of its legs? That’s a direct consequence of the Flashing LEDs hack & 20 years of time passing. (🧵) 160
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025Here is the circuit design. Whichever “eye” generates more power will be the first to trigger the rest of the circuit, which dumps the entire main capacitor into the corresponding “leg”. And the whole process starts over. (🧵) 140
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025The “brain” is as minimal as possible. A lot of people would use a microcontroller for this functionality (ESP32, RP2040, etc) which give you millions of transistors to work with. This little bot uses 4 transistors! 2 handle the left side of the body, 2 handle the right. (🧵) 220
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025A fun hack is how it sees! The green “eyes” are Flashing LEDs. FLEDs have a quirk: they produce voltage when you shine light into them. Whichever eye is pointed more towards the sun will charge up those little blue “front hands” (capacitors) first, which tells the “brain” to where to steer. (🧵) 161
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025The solar panel on its back charges up the large capacitor of the “abdomen”. Then steers toward light by kicking one of the rear legs (tiny motors pulled from a pager/phone). (🧵) 110
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025This bot’s duty is to find its food & get as much of it as it can. aka: keep pointed at the sun & walk toward it. The design constraints: no PCB or structural components! The physical structure must come only from the functional components. That means lots of free form soldering. 😎 (🧵) 100
MG @mg.lol · 03/12/2025I just found this little solar robot bug I made 20 years ago. It captures many qualities: - Art & Design Constraint - electrical hacks, using components “the wrong way” - extreme minimalism for max results Also, something interesting changed while it sat for 20 years! Let me explain… (🧵) 1133
MG @mg.lol · 23/11/2025Yikes. When did this start happening? Or was it always a thing, but the recent market contraction forcing it to magnify? I have been out of the game for the last year, and really grateful for the timing with how miserable the market is for everyone I know in RT space. But still trying to keep tabs. 030
MG @mg.lol · 13/11/2025Holy shit they actually fixed the kerning. It got silently updated in the brand guide. www.war.gov/Brand-Guide/ 050
MG @mg.lol · 17/08/2025Ok, this thing is pretty cool. Embedded Linux with 2.4ghz, 5ghz, & 6ghz radios. Easily replaceable battery. And most importantly, it feels solid in your hands. Well done Hak5 crew! Wifi Pineapple Pager is going to become a favorite for a lot of people when the preorders start shipping. 2386
MG @mg.lol · 15/07/2025My Darknet Diaries episode is live! Of all the interviews I have done, this is probably the easiest to listen to because Jack is a great storyteller. darknetdiaries.com/episode/161/ YT: youtu.be/W81oWOf_RiE Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7tiH... iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...darknetdiaries.comMG – Darknet DiariesIn this episode we talk with MG, the brilliant (and notorious) hacker and hardware engineer behind the OMG Cable. A seemingly ordinary USB cable with extraordinary offensive capabilities. 020
MG @mg.lol · 09/06/2025Every time I travel, I let people charge their devices. Totally harmless. They never know who I am or what I normally do with USB cables, but maybe one day… 😂 This lady’s phone died a few min into a 5hr flight. I just wanted her to enjoy her time. 180
MG @mg.lol · 13/04/2025Are you seeing posts about how the “real” factories in China are selling the products for cheap in response to the trade war / tariffs? That’s all fake. It’s mostly old videos that knockoff shops were making. Likely being pushed now to get in before $800 De Minimis exemption goes away + disinfo. 020
MG @mg.lol · 13/04/2025They chose to do option B. That’s it. That’s the whole story. It’s been near impossible to find accurate info on all the tariff stories lately because of how everyone covers it. But at the same time, it’s cool to see some exposure to a world that almost everyone ignores. 🧵4/n 000
MG @mg.lol · 13/04/2025The goods got a redux’d tariff but the system didn’t have this update. AKA: they’d be OVERcharging the tariffs. 2 options: A: overcharge & handle it later with corrections (a PSC) B: skip the live entry & do the ESF a few days later after. By then, the correct tariff info is in the system. 🧵3/n 100
MG @mg.lol · 13/04/2025When a shipment comes in, CBP issues a Cargo Release & does an Entry Summary Filing. The ESF is where all the customs $ gets handled. Both tend to happen at once, which is called a “live entry”, but the ESF can also happen within 10 days of the CR. Including after delivery! 🧵2/n 100
MG @mg.lol · 13/04/2025Not a single $ was lost over this “glitch”. But you’d believe so because everyone spreading it has no experience here. Explanation in thread below: 🧵1/n 100
MG @mg.lol · 12/04/2025I’m tired! I want to rest for a bit! I didn’t know how to swim when I jumped into the deep end of the pool. I’ve yet to get out of the pool for a breath, But now the pool has become an ocean and I’m doing marathon swimming. But yea that’s exactly what I am doing 😂😭 110
MG @mg.lol · 12/04/2025I’ve been in a state of perpetual drowning for 5+ years now. Luckily it has all added up to make navigating 2025 easier than otherwise. Especially the chip shortage & pandemic. But that also means I just want to… not. 110
MG @mg.lol · 12/04/2025Sadly, that won’t work. An assembled PCB with a microcontroller is not a microcontroller. And I can only assume “I’m exempt!” labels are gonna get heavy scrutiny. 110
MG @mg.lol · 12/04/2025I was betting that by May there would be a strong indication of which way this would go. So I was holding off on making any changes. This is much earlier than expected! 110
MG @mg.lol · 12/04/2025Tariff exemptions just dropped for smartphones, computers, etc. Xi doing the “we aren’t going to bother going past 125%, it’s pointless. this is now a joke” followed immediately by Trump stepping backward by removing tariffs from a big chunk of imports. The next week is gonna be real interesting… 260
MG @mg.lol · 08/04/2025You might not like it, but this is what peak USA manufacturing looks like! (I was in the middle of live streaming firmware flashing & panel breaking of some PCBs. But then the house lizard decided to run through the middle of everything.) 0191
MG @mg.lol · 08/04/2025If you think this is a lot of cables, you should see the list of things that cannot stop me. 041
MG @mg.lol · 06/04/2025A batch of PCBs for OMG Cables getting individually tested & graded. This is one of many steps where the results get saved into the cable’s storage. More on that later, but it lets me know the exact life of a cable across its entire creation process and ensure no steps are skipped. 091
MG @mg.lol · 23/03/2025People who make you feel this bad for posting layered sarcasm might not be worth trying to appease. 150
MG @mg.lol · 22/03/2025And with a little work on the power steering, this car now has “self driving” performance quite a bit better than Tesla’s Autopilot. It’s similar to FSD from 2020. Never have to recharge it either 😎 This was a fun little project. I’m looking forward to using it on road trips. 031
MG @mg.lol · 20/03/2025Robert De Niro on a Netflix show (Zero Day) mentioning the O.MG Cable! 😎 Shoutout to whoever did the text, you got the silent punctuation perfectly. 4232
MG @mg.lol · 13/03/2025Before making the OMG Cable, I was making malicious thumb drives… with a little extra 💥 0140
MG @mg.lol · 31/01/2025If you haven’t kept up on the latest gen OMG Cable capabilities, this is a speed run through some of the major features. Keystroke Injection, Keylogging, HIDX StealthLink And some… extras at the end 😁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7S3...youtube.comHacker Breaks Down His Everyday Carry Tools LIVE with a Navy SEALYouTube video by Shawn Ryan Show 0142
MG @mg.lol · 31/01/2025Jump into the deep end and figure it out as I go! 😅 Appreciate the support man. 010
