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[Joris Laurenssen] has been hanging onto this robotic arm for about twenty years. His most recent project uses some familiar tools to add voice control for each of the arm's joints. The arm has its own controller which connects via a DB-25 port. [Joris'] first task was to figure out what type of commands are being sent through the connection. He did some testing to establish the levels of the … [Read more...]
[Arto] recently upgraded his home Internet subscription from an ADSL to VDSL, and with that change received a shiny new ZTE ZXDSL 931WII modem/wireless router. Once he had it installed, he started to go about his normal routine of changing the administrator password, setting up port forwarding, and configuring the wireless security settings...or at least he tried to. It seems that he was … [Read more...]
[Erdem] is leading up the efforts to reverse engineer Samsung TV firmware with a project called SamyGo. Official Samsung firmware uses the Linux kernel, making it a familiar system to work with for many developers. So far they've implemented NFS and SAMBA for sharing files over the network, improved playback from USB devices, and unlocked the ability to use non-Samsung WiFi dongles. In order to … [Read more...]
If you've been holding off on a T-Mobile G1 purchase because you didn't like the apparent user restrictions, there's some good news. The Android powered phone comes with an easy button for getting root. Install a terminal app and you can manually start the telnetd service. All that's left is telenetting into the device and it'll give you root level access. … [Read more...]
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