Optiboot (an older version) is installed by default on the Arduino Uno and (as of 2018) official Arduino Nano boards. It can be installed on all older mega8, 168 or 328 based Arduinos. As of 2019, ...

Most end users should find a supported "Arduino Core" that includes Optiboot for their desired target, and install that. Many such cores are provided by the hardware vendor, and they'll include Board ...

Making an Arduino shield can be simpler than you think. This time I designed one to program Attiny and Atmega ...

There are plenty of drones (and other gadgets) you can buy online that use proprietary control protocols. Of course, reverse-engineering one of these protocols is a hacker community classic. Today, ...

Making a servo tester using an Attiny85 micro chip, Attiny45 also works for this project. This diy servo tester is as good as any other servo tester, the difference is that it can be programmed to do ...

Conferences and tradeshows are a staple of Silicon Valley, with no shortage of billboards along the Highway 101 corridor between San Francisco and San Jose announcing the next date and location. As ...

EasyBCD is a robust tool for modifying the Windows bootloader. It is incredibly useful and gives you unrivaled customization capabilities over one of the most delicate programs on your Windows 11/10 ...

If you recently moved from BIOS to UEFI and you cannot boot your computer since then, here is how you can repair the EFI bootloader in Windows 11/10. It is pretty easy to repair the EFI bootloader ...

While the x86 architecture certainly isn’t going away anytime soon, it seems that each year more and more of our computing is done on ARM processors. It started with our smartphones, spread into ...

A newly discovered exploit is making waves in the Android modding community, potentially allowing users to unlock the bootloaders of phones that manufacturers have intentionally locked down. According ...

IT之家 3 月 13 日消息，科技媒体 Android Authority 今天（3 月 13 日）发布博文，披露了针对高通第五代骁龙 8 至尊版芯片的 Qualcomm GBL 漏洞利用链，并在小米 17 等手机上测试成功解锁 Bootloader。 Bootloader（引导加载程序）是设备启动时运行的第一段代码，负责初始化 ...

A vulnerability in Qualcomm’s Android Bootloader implementation allows unsigned code to run via the “efisp” partition on Android 16 devices. This is paired with a “fastboot” command oversight to ...