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  • This week’s post is on another cool side project, Hackerbox 113 : “Hardcore“. Hardcore is an intro to 8-bit microcontroller technology using modern variants of the Intel 8051, also known as “The Immortal MCU“. The 8015 is a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) with separate memory spaces for program instructions and data. The goal of this project was to build a usb programmer for microcontrollers, write a simple program to program the blank 8051, and demo some applications of microcontrollers…

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  • Greetings! It’s been over a month since my last post, largely due to a couple back to back trips in March and then a couple weeks of hard studying that I didn’t want to break up with a side quest. Anyways, today’s post is about the March Hackerbox, #112 Gamelife. Gamelife is a very interesting project relating to Conway’s Game of Life, a cellular automaton that operates on a 2d square grid. The essential goal of the ‘game’ is to…

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  • This week I took a break from HackTheBox to work on a hardware project that I got a few weeks ago. During the holiday, I subscribed to a monthly subscription box service called ‘Hackerboxes‘, catchy right? Anyways, HB subscription includes a monthly hardware project that requires soldering together components onto some cool custom PCB’s and then installing and modifying some files/programs to get them to do cool things. This month’s box is called ‘Relay‘, and the overall goal was to…

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  • I’m still in the process of working through the footprinting module, which was estimated to take two days of study. This obviously breaks down to 24 hours of study time which can be a lot on top of all the other day to day things that life spawns. It’s also like twenty some lessons that compose near entirely of text walls followed by short labs. So this post is a short one about a side quest that I’ve taken up…

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