Category: Tutorials & Guides
22/01/11
08:46:56 am by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: firmware, hack, hexedit, jailbreak, mod, reverse engineer Found this, this morning. A little quick intro/guide to some of the basic processes involved reverse engineering. In this guide all you need is a notepad/text editor, hex editor and some way of hex to dec conversion (even calc will do).
An intro… more »
21/01/11
01:47:41 pm by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: 2 layer, circuit board, copy, pcb, reverse engineering Quite a cool idea, a guide on how to reverse engineer a PCB using any decent photo editing software. Simply idea really use the bucket fill & colour the trace start to finish in 1 click. The guide also covers 2 layers. Bit easier than a photocopier a… more »
24/12/10
07:09:44 pm by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: adaptop, firmware, nand, repair, soldering, tsop Heres a good guide on how to read NAND stlye flash chips in devices without having to remove them and put them back in when you have finished which is what we do now with the possibility of killing the things which is not so good :p Mirror : … more »
15/09/10
10:55:31 pm by drf, Categories: Tools, In development, Hardware, Tutorials & Guides , Tags: dongle, guide, home made, jailbreak, pic, playstation3, ps3, psgoove, sony, tutorial, usb Literally massive post this loads of info on the PSGroove, PSGooPic etc. pics, files all sorts it is a massive read, might take some time, but it really does give you all you need to know about the things. Load of info mirrored from all over the p… more »
14/09/10
08:14:22 pm by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: air station, desoldering, soic, soldering As usual when things are slow, ill, bored, nothing to post. We traditional post up a soldering video of some sort so heres one :p
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01/09/10
11:38:14 pm by drf, Categories: News, Tutorials & Guides , Tags: backup, clone, copies, crack, files, guide, hack, hex, homebrew, modchip, open source, playstation 3, ps3, psgroove, sony Short guide on how to install Sony Playstation 3 "PSGroove" exploit onto a compatible microcontroller. You should know if you don't well you never needed to anyway then :p
You are looking on how to create your own PS Jailbreak? Well, i have fou… more »
24/08/10
04:45:49 pm by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: 7, checksum, genuine, iso, md5, microsoft, vista, windows, xp Found this usefull bit of information. Microsoft list the checksum of all of there products going back as far as I can see MS-Dos 6 & Windows 3.x uptil now XP & Windows 7 and everthing in between. This may be usefull if you want to verify that no… more »
30/07/10
Might be usefull for some so we posted it, no need for mega hacking the phone to bits in this guide.Stol3d from Wiki and what?"If you’ve got a Samsung Vibrant and want to take advantage of that unlimted 3G account you can tether without rooting the… more »
28/07/10
Starting to back up all the age old docs, guides, books, links and what not before there lost forever and heres the first. I refound it today while looking up some other info. A guide to upgrade the none 'E' versions of the Atari ST (F,FM,STFM) to either… more »
17/06/10
11:07:36 am by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: hot air, plcc, qfp, solder, soldering, surface mount, tsop What do we do when we have nothing to report on? We post up soldering videos of course! Since we have had nothing to post about for days heres one :p
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29/05/10
07:40:03 pm by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: broken, circuit, cracked, motherboard, pcb, repair, soldering Other than the person speaking in the video sounding like there on crack this is quite a good video :[video:youtube:g6_piarjTKI] more »
01/03/10
Is your PS3 Broken ? Don't Pay for Costly Repairs! Fix Your Console Yourself in Hour PS3 Problems? Need Playstation 3 Repair? This guide will walk you step by step in fixing your console. Don't send your Ps3 away for costly repairs, Fix it yours… more »
22/02/10
Quick up, on various methods on how to solder headers to PCB's
Drag soldering "Micro-Headers" :
[video:youtube:6DpvtISULgw]
ISP header
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21/02/10
12:22:32 pm by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: fault finding, repair, stepdown, transformer Not had a guide in a while, this ones put simply too, how to check a transformer :)[video:youtube:QqaxkGcEzeI][adsense:] more »
31/01/10
A few links on testing components you may have salvaged etc.
Resistors :
[video:youtube:n_Ts4nK4LO0]
Transistors :
[video:youtube:YsJXFLnA62s]
Not much on capciators, since they usually require special tooling to test, and most times you can see if… more »
23/01/10
Been away for a while, then I broke the site :p
Anyhow just throwing up a quick soldering video about the dreaded TSOP...
[video:youtube:OlSHsLo0cJg]
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13/01/10
Not a bad video, shame about the ad's that obsure bits of it, but it does cover and show some important bits for thru hole soldering, even in a world of surface mount this is usefull :)[video:youtube:x0YxEilyQVY] more »
09/01/10
Todays video what I term "splatter soldering" I dare not try this method lots of bridge and clean up work. Its quite popular though.
[video:youtube:e5qYG95bbz8]
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08/01/10
First update for a few days, been too cold and way too busy. The world ends when it snows :p
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03/01/10
09:00:29 pm by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: broken, circuit, cracked, motherboard, pcb, repair, soldering Other than the person speaking in the video sounding like there on crack this is quite a good video :[video:youtube:g6_piarjTKI] more »
30/12/09
01:24:01 pm by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: dil, dip, iron, removal, soldering, tweezers Most of us won't have the tweezers or the desoldering iron in this video, I'll have to dig up some way more ghetto methods, but its still nice to watch. Last time I looked a decent set of these tweezers were running about £30-£50+ not bad if you have a c… more »
29/12/09
03:50:38 pm by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: adsl, netgear, password, sagem, sky, username Why, oh why, do some ISPs lock up your router/modem and hide your own details in it? money thats why. Anyhow Sky users have a small problem its known that if you firmware update the modem or use a none-Sky branded firmware you lose your password and then… more »
26/12/09
25/12/09
11:28:42 pm by drf, Categories: Tutorials & Guides , Tags: basic soldering, heat control, rework station, solder [video:youtube:MHNDa2Wvk8I] more »
