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Hardware Hacking
13 points by sohamdas on June 26, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments
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 :)


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


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 )


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


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/).


Try starting with the Art of Electronics

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


@ 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...


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




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