Baofeng Radios

More specifically: reverse engineering the UV-3R and UV-5R. Apparently it's pretty easy to reprogram the 3R's microcontroller, and they're both based on an I2C-controlled single-chip transceiver, so are eminently suitable for rebuilding for other applications.

to amateur baofeng microcontroller radio reverse-engineering uv3r uv5r ... on 27 March 2013

VideoCore IV Programmers Manual · hermanhermitage/videocoreiv Wiki

Reverse-engineering the instruction set for the Raspberry Pi's GPU. I'm starting to think this might be my final 0700 or 0803 lecture this year...

to architecture gpu raspberry-pi reverse-engineering teaching ... on 05 March 2013

binwalk - Firmware Analysis Tool - Google Project Hosting

Find interesting things in firmware images.

to embedded firmware reverse-engineering software ... on 11 February 2013

Amiga group Action's Brief News! http://zap.to/action/

In 1995, they would have been a cracking group; these days they produce WHDLoad patches for games. Lots of interesting technical detail about how to reverse-engineer game bootloaders.

to amiga assembler cracking disk pirate retrocomputing reverse-engineering software ... on 09 January 2013

pagetable.com

An excellent technical blog about how (and why) stuff works.

to assembly programming retrocomputing reverse-engineering x86 ... on 09 July 2010

Interesting Devices Ltd

Sellers of extremely cheap PIC/AVR-based smartcards for satellite TV hacking purposes, programmers, and various other bits -- but I wonder if there are other uses for them... It might be cute to have a smartcard running the Transterpreter.

to avr electronics microcontroller pic reverse-engineering satellite shopping ... on 04 August 2009

Nerdipedia : HomePage

Miscellaneous electronics stuff. Includes an interesting bit about reverse-engineering printer cartridge chips.

to electronics microcontroller printer reverse-engineering ... on 04 June 2009

Flylogic Engineering’s Analytical Blog

Pulling apart chips to see what makes them tick (and, more specifically, how to defeat their security measures). Neat stuff.

to electronics i-refuse-to-create-a-blog-tag reverse-engineering ... on 27 November 2008

NSA :: Hardware :: JTAG

Reverse-engineer boards with FPGAs on automatically using JTAG. This is unlikely to ever be something I'll need to do, but it's a neat idea.

to electronics fpga jtag reverse-engineering ... on 02 September 2007