RandomInsano

#!/bin/bash
#   Heith Seewald 2012
#   Edwin Amsler 2013

#Feel free to extend/modify to meet your needs.
#Maya on Ubuntu v.1
#This is the base installer... I’ll add more features in later versions.
#if you have any issues, feel free email me at heiths@gmail.com (or Edwin at EdwinGuy@Gmail.com)

#### Lets run a few checks to make sure things work as expected.

RandomInsano

Alphie (2009) Hacking Notes

Note: I no longer have cards and didn't scan them. You're best bet is eBay, though it's quite expensive.

I want to make my own booster packs for Alphie, a children's learning toy, so I'm learning how he works internally so I can see if it's possible. It may be helpful for someone else down the line, but for right now it's just a lot of fun. Even if I don't get there, it's great practice of both documentation (which I'm terrible at writing) and reverse engineering.

I2C Pinout

RandomInsano

#!/usr/bin/env python

'''
    Tool to read game media type header information from the original
    XBOX's xbe executables.

    In retrospect, it would have been much less fiddly to write this in C/C++

    Info taken from here:
    http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/download/xbe.htm

RandomInsano

Reverse Engineering the D-Link BSDD16+ Display

Electrical

This router, like a bunch that I've taken apart, has a status display driven by a series of registers. There are six 8bit registers here, and they're Fairchild 74VHC164s. The datasheet for them can be found here.

After minor poking, here's the pinout to the display PCB:

RandomInsano

The plan this time around is to take a one-button remote control car and make it autonomous so it can wonder the house on its own. One day maybe I'll have it map things using a Raspberry Pi Zero, but for now it will be Arduino controlled and use an ultra-sonic sensor to 'see'.

The toy car itself is pretty simple, and seems to be designed to be modular with the control chip being on a daughter board. All of the control for lights, motor and sound run to that board-to-board connector making it easy to hack! For those looking for their own, it seems to run under the name "My First RC Car" and it's manufactured by a company called Parent's which is out of China. It has three following delightful traits:

1. Six transistor-controlled LEDs (no idea amperage ability, 3 channels with two LEDs each)
2. A speaker with amplifier (for vroom-vroom noises)
3. A single momentary switch just for beep-beep noises
4. A one-way single button radio
5. A zainy drive system that can go forward or steer to the left (no reversing p

RandomInsano

#!/bin/bash

# usage: <drive path> <folder name>
#
# ex: copy.sh /dev/floppy0 "Where in the World is Carmen Sandeigo"

let a=0

echo "Creating directory for '$2'"
mkdir -p "$2"

RandomInsano

#!/usr/bin/env python

import errno
from sys import stdout
from time import sleep
from select import poll, POLLIN
from inspect import getmembers
import xwiimote

def get_device(entry):

RandomInsano

#!/bin/sh
sudo apt-get install -y libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libsm6 libxrandr2 libxcursor libxcursor1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1

RandomInsano

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RandomInsano

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import serial
import binascii

#open serial
ser = serial.Serial(
    port='/dev/tty.usbserial-A6005kdh',
    baudrate=115200,
    timeout=0.005