Ken Shirriff's blog

Computer history, restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever

Improved Arduino TV-B-Gone

Oct 2016: An updated version of the code is on github , thanks to Gabriel Staples . The TV-B-Gone is a tiny infrared remote that can tu...

Inside the Firesheep code: how it steals your identity

You may have heard about Firesheep , a new Firefox browser add-on that lets anyone easily snoop over Wi-Fi and hijack your identity for serv...

A visit from The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk

A mysterious package showed up on my doorstep today - box "INTJ-28", an instance of the The Great Internet Migratory Box of Elec...

Car radio repair made difficult

My wife's car radio suddenly quit working, so I figured I'd take a look and see if I could fix it. The first problem was that it wa...

Getting the (literal) bugs out of a driveway gate controller

My driveway has a gate that automatically opens when you drive up, and then closes. Recently it stopped working and this blog post describe...

Using Arc to decode Venter's secret DNA watermark

Recently Craig Venter (who decoded the human genome) created a synthetic bacterium . The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) took a bacterium...

Decoding the secret DNA code in Venter's synthetic bacterium

Craig Venter recently created a synthetic bacterium with a secret message encoded in the DNA. This is described in more detail at singulari...

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