When most people think of reverse engineering, they probably have thoughts of disassembling some high-tech component or software code and learning what makes it tick, and then creating knockoffs for ...

There’s an unexpected part of hacking that is very difficult to get right, namely photographing printed circuit boards. Everything seems to catch the light, making for a complex dance of manipulating ...

My digital design company was recently tasked with reverse engineering an existing product. The idea was to rewrite and stabilize a large application that had no specifications. Since most of the ...

It sounds backwards. It sounds devious. But it is about analysis: taking things apart, potentially breaking them, to find out how they work; opening up the hood, seeing what parts are inside and how ...

Although a somewhat common feature on cars these days, tire pressure sensors (TPS) are also useful on bicycles. The SKS Airspy range of TPS products is one such example, which enables remote ...

The two-year effort to decompile Super Mario 64 wasn't started with a Windows executable in mind. Instead, it was motivated primarily by speedrunners who wanted "to understand the game's code better ...