Hardware Hacking

Posted by sohamdas on Thursday June 26, 2008 @01:23AM
from the self-post dept.

Hi there, Can anybody suggest me a good site which regularly deals with hacking the hardware and prying open to understand more about the common electronic goods. At the end of it, it should give a reader a fair idea about whats running under the hood and 'possible' system architecture.I don't really need an iPhone-only or Mac-only site, I am looking for something more generic, like Wi-Fi routers,mobile phones and anything which is powered and has transistor in it :)

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Re:Hardware Hacking by jauco on Thursday June 26, 2008 @02:15AM (#228320)

http://www.hackszine.com http://www.instructables.com http://www.hackaday.com/

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Re:Hardware Hacking by VinzO on Thursday June 26, 2008 @08:20AM (#228497)

General computer hardware : http://www.behardware.com

These are good ressources about embbeded systems and computer architectures:

http://www.embedded.com

http://www.ganssle.com

http://www.professorandpat.org ( This one is more oriented for children learning so it's very easy to understand )

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Re:Hardware Hacking by sohamdas on Thursday June 26, 2008 @08:31AM (#228505)

Hey Vinz giving it a look... I am actually a hardware/electronics guy. I am working on these stuff day in and day out, so just thought up to pry open the latest gadgets to see whats going inside.And thanks for the reco

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Re:Hardware Hacking by thaumaturgy on Thursday June 26, 2008 @09:36AM (#228571)

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned Hack-a-day (http://www.hackaday.com/).

They cover hardware hacks in a dizzying array of applications, the hacks are generally very well documented, and their archives go way, way back. One of my old favorites is the robotic sentry gun (http://www.hackaday.com/2005/09/21/robotic-sentry-gun/).

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Re:Hardware Hacking by sigstoat on Thursday June 26, 2008 @02:46AM (#228332)

Try starting with the Art of Electronics

http://frank.harvard.edu/aoe/

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Re:Hardware Hacking by sohamdas on Thursday June 26, 2008 @03:15AM (#228338)

@ Xirium

Yeah how stuff works is good, but I would like to have a really product differentiating 'under-the-hood' peak. I want to know the h/w difference between Broadcoms Router and Linksys or something to that effect[just for an example]. But HSW will only tell how generic routers work...

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Re:Hardware Hacking by xirium on Thursday June 26, 2008 @02:15AM (#228319)

http://www.howstuffworks.com/ is a good primer.

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