Hardware on XOR

Rapid Unplanned Disassembly - BSides Cape Town 2025

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Talk given at BSides Cape Town (Cape Town) - 06 December 2025

Building Miss Duckworth - Escape 2024

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Talk given at Escape 2024 (Johannesburg) - 5 September 2024

I can see clearly now - Adding vision to a rubber duck - DataConf 2024

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Talk given at DataConf (Cape Town) - 29 August 2024

Ducking Duck - Rubber Duck 2.0 - DevConf 2024

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Talk given at DevConf (Johannesburg and Cape Town) - 7 May 2024, 9 May 2024

A Practical Supply Chain Hack

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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

Smart Watch Lobotomy - DevConf

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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

HP Compaq 8300 SFF Repair

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Smart Watch Lobotomy

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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

Hacking a FocusFit Pro-Y68

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Repairing a Lenovo B590

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

SA Online 'Maker' Resources

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Links to various South African online stores that may be useful to anyone ‘making’ things.

Allwinner Boot / FEL / FES / NAND Dump

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Notes on boot process, FEL/FES mode and how to dump the NAND storage and kernel. Part of the notes for Shall We Play A Game Talk

Let's Talk Implants

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Lightning Talk given at BSides Cape Town 1 December 2018 on Hardware Implants

Shall We Play A Game?

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Talk given at BSides Cape Town - 1 December 2018 with Ross (@HypnInfosec) on hacking a SNES Classic

SNES Classic Hardware

dale@xor.co.za (Dale Nunns) — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Notes on the SNES Classic hardware and modifications that can be done to it to add things such as SD storage or Serial ports. Part of the notes for Shall We Play A Game Talk