Monthly Archives: January 2022

Brass Lamp

I haven’t properly built anything with my hands in a while, so it’s time.   I mocked up a few lamp ideas, and this one seemed fun. Really, really rough mock-ups.   That was neat looking, so I fleshed out the hinge section, which I expected would be the hardest part to figure out and… Read More: Brass Lamp »

Dumping Firmware With a 555

Voltage glitching, also called fault injection, is the process of dumping the energy on a microcontroller’s power rail very briefly – Just enough to cause a glitch, where it skips an instruction, rather than causing a brown-out-induced reset. I first learned about the technique in connection with the Chip Whisperer, which is an FPGA-based board… Read More: Dumping Firmware With a 555 »