Alvaro

WTAF. Just took a Lyft from the airport to my house. They charged me $50. I saw the drivers phone when he was starting the ride and he only got $18 ?! That’s ridiculous!🤬

Who else is headed to Toorcamp this week?

New episode is up! We talked to Michael Ossmann about HackRF Pro, Cynthion, and more! unnamedre.com/episode/78

🎉 #Teardown2026 will be happening 24-26th July. We're in a cool new space: the Jupiter on Burnside. Our 60s mall era is dead, long live our 60s motel era. Tickets, calls for participation + volunteers, and general info on the @crowdsupply.bsky.social site: www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por...

Hey, any of y'all #PCB nerds have a favorite type of UV-cure solder mask? 👀 Just got my old Bantam mill back, and I'd like to level up my quick-prototyping game... // #PCBs

Do you have a J-Link compact and wonder why it only works with _some_ USB-C cables? I looked into why that is 🤬 alvarop.com/2025/09/j-li...

Spent waaaaay too long trying to figure out why my board's SPI bus on GP6-GP9 wasn't working 🤦‍♂️

New episode is up! We talked with Nathan Emerick about the Spotify CarThing and it's journey to becoming the @deskthing.app :D unnamedre.com/episode/75

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

Do folks have a favorite UV cured adhesive for PCB rework? For holding wires in place, etc…

My gargantuan presentation about Cold War attacks and intrusions into our intelligence apparatus has now been published. If you didn't catch it at #ShmooCon or #CackalackyCon now you can view it here... youtu.be/-Z_Jv7vuiqg Enjoy! 👍😁👍

The amazing ppl behind @crowdsupply.bsky.social ‘s Teardown are hosting us in Portland, OR this year! Join us on Thursday for Hardware Hacking with @synapticrewrite.bsky.social and @barbieauglend.bsky.social - register here: blackhoodie.re/TearDown2025/

Looking forward to the full-throated condemnation of this letter by those who accused the Biden administration of pressuring social media firms to moderate COVID-19 and election fraud misinfo! Any second now... www.theverge.com/news/656720/...

shop.keyboard.io/blogs/news/a... This is an expanded and updated version of the message we sent to our mailing list late last week.

We just launched the OpenMV N6 and AE3 on Kickstarter - Our Latest OpenMV Cameras with AI accelerators onboard - Run YOLO at 30 FPS on a Microcontroller! bit.ly/41tpKtv - Back our Kickstarter now!

Working on something today. I've been doing a lot of recapping recently and was getting tired of Googling pdfs. mightyohm.com/wiki/referen...

Have you ever wanted to debug your device over USB-C? (I’m talking JTAG/SWD, not just USB!) If you already have a USB-C connector, there’s no need to have an additional connector to program! Started as a twitter thread ages ago, but I've cleaned it up and added more info! alvarop.com/2025/03/swd-...

Debra Ansell( @geekmomprojects.com ) joined us to talk about finding friends and exchanging neat gifts, accidentally tricking people into making unmanufacutable boards, and happy, blinking lights. Take a listen here: embedded.fm/episodes/494 #makergiftexchange #friends #maker #LED #lights

Teardown is amazing annual June event in Portland for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware. The call for proposals closes on Wednesday, January 15th: www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por... #portland #portlandpdx #pdx #openhardware

Donating to the Wikimedia Foundation is great. Becoming a volunteer editor is even better. youtu.be/bRRHR1NEOqE

Please support one of our own! If you ever have been to defcon, needed network security, used MFA, touched HAM radio, etc… dearest cjunkie made your life better one way or another - one of the most awesome human beings I know (and I know tons of them!) www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

finally finished the fiber laser vid! you can check out the full version on yt: youtu.be/wAiGCyZZq6w

Randomly found these cool 3D printable probes by for the Omnifixo that use a jumper-wire as probing needle. Especially the version with the 5 cent coins as weight works great! Might have to make a version with pogo pins :) Awesome work, IsTim! makerworld.com/en/models/51...

hey! have a seat, crack open a can of POWER TUBE, and let's review ONE YEAR OF TUBE TIME! 🧵

This is one of the neatest gifts I’ve ever received. It’s a rug that looks just like one of my weather station PCB’s! Here are pictures of the PCB and the rug. Oh, and did I mention some of it glows in the dark?!?!?

Slowly migrating old Twitter threads to my blog. Here's one on a 7400 series clock I built based on my dad's college project notes. alvarop.com/2024/12/7400...

The KiCad project is excited to announce the first release candidate for the next major version is available for testing. Version 9.0.0 is expected to be released by 01/31/25. New features can be found here forum.kicad.info/t/post-v8-ne... Packages are available www.kicad.org/download/

over the last year, i've been reverse-engineering and documenting old Seagate hard drives from the 1980s. the latest one is this ST-296N from 1987, which is a SCSI drive that can store 85 megabytes.

New episode is up! New episode is up! unnamedre.com/episode/72

Come for all the UUIDs everyuuid.com, stay for the unexpected cryptanalysis. eieio.games/blog/writing... By the one and only @itseieio.bsky.social, of course.

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I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission. The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system(). It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.

I’ll be at #opensauce all weekend. Stop by and say hello if you’re around! (Or if you need something fixed!)

What are some examples of great schematics from open source projects?

A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so. https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto

Aaaannnnddd BlackHoodie Seattle will happen June 22/23 and is hosted by @LeviathanSec , trainings will be brought to you by @pinkflawd, @bhavna, @supg0x80 and yours truly! Registration is now open, please spread the word :) More details: https://blackhoodie.re/Seattle/