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A Practical Supply Chain Hack

Blinking RGBs for fun & profit.

 Posted on December 2, 2023  |   2 min  |   270 words  |   Dale Nunns

Talk given at BSides Cape Town - 2 December 2023 on hacking a keyboard and embedding a key logger.

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Tags: bsidescapetown hacking hardware talk 
πŸ“° Article

Hacking a Larry's 220 in 1 Arcade Retro Game

Hacking a retro arcade game as a Birthday Gift for HypnZA

 Posted on July 23, 2023  |   4 min  |   685 words  |   Dale Nunns

This project started in December 2020, the idea was to hack one of these cheap 220-in-1 NES arcades as a birthday present for a very good friend of mine.

It ended up taking a little longer than original planned, much longer πŸ™ˆ.

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Tags: teardown hacking birthday nes game retro 
πŸ“° Article

Pizza Hacking 2.0

Perfecting the home-made pizza

 Posted on May 29, 2023  |   4 min  |   773 words  |   Dale Nunns

Updated notes on my attempts to make the perfect home-made Pizza.

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Tags: pizza hacking 
πŸ—£οΈ Talk

Smart Watch Lobotomy - DevConf

Taking a cheap smart watch and making it do what I want.

 Posted on May 26, 2023  |   1 min  |   174 words  |   Dale Nunns

Talk given at DevConf Cape Town & Pretoria - 23 & 25 May 2023 on hacking a cheap smart watch.

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Tags: devconf hacking hardware talk 
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HP Compaq 8300 SFF Repair

Repairing a HP Compaq 8300 SFF the hardcore way.

 Posted on December 9, 2022  |   9 min  |   1752 words  |   Dale Nunns

Notes on fixing a friend’s HP Compaq 8300 USDT SFF machine.

All of this was done around 23rd April 2022 and I’ve finally finished writing it all up.

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Tags: hardware hacking repair BIOS UEFI 
πŸ—£οΈ Talk

Smart Watch Lobotomy

Taking a cheap smart watch and making it do what I want.

 Posted on December 3, 2022  |   2 min  |   241 words  |   Dale Nunns

Talk given at BSides Cape Town - 3 December 2022 on hacking a cheap smart watch.

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Tags: bsidescapetown hacking hardware talk 
πŸ“° Article

Hacking a FocusFit Pro-Y68

Companion blog post for the Smart Watch Lobotomy talk

 Posted on November 30, 2022  |   30 min  |   6307 words  |   Dale Nunns

A companion blog post that covers everything that was in my Smart Watch Lobotomy talk and everything that couldn’t make it into the talk.

You’ll find a lot more information on the watch, BLE hacking, SWS and firmware.

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Tags: bsidescapetown hacking hardware talk 
πŸ“° Article

Repairing a Lenovo B590

Repairing a laptop the hardcore way.

 Posted on October 18, 2020  |   10 min  |   1964 words  |   Dale Nunns

Notes on repairing my father-in-law’s Lenovo B590

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Tags: hardware hacking repair 
πŸ“° Article

Pizza Hacking

Home-made Pizza under covid19 lock down.

 Posted on August 19, 2020  |   5 min  |   886 words  |   Dale Nunns

Notes on my attempts to make the perfect Pizza at home during the covid19 lock down.

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Tags: pizza hacking 
πŸ—£οΈ Talk

Chip8 'n' Dale 2.0 - Feature Creep Edition

An adventure in writing an emulator in .NET Core. (with a little Skia# and lots of GTK#)

 Posted on October 23, 2019  |   2 min  |   371 words  |   Dale Nunns

A talk given at the Cape Town Microsoft Developer User Group - @CPTMSDUG in Cape Town on 23/10/2019 on emulators and writing a CHIP8 emulator in .NET Core

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Tags: cptmsdug emulator .NET Core talk 
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