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What did you do this past week? It honestly was a pretty rough week for me. Partially because of laziness and procrastination coupled with personal matters, I wasn’t able to accomplish a lot that I had planned for the week. My diet and exercise routine took a hit consistency-speaking, and…

The ESP USB Bridge is an ESP-IDF project utilizing an ESP32-S2 (or optionally, an ESP32-S3) chip to create a bridge between a computer and a target microcontroller. It can serve as a replacement for USB-to-UART chips (e.g. CP210x). ESP USB Bridge creates a composite USB device accessible from the computer…

AMRs (Autonomous Mobile Robots), smart signages, barcode scanning devices, surveillance systems, industrial handhelds, etc., are changing how businesses operate and connect with people. And embedded vision cameras play a vital role in enabling these devices to ‘see’ their surroundings. Cameras help identify, observe, and analyze objects in a target scene…

Dedicated hardware to perform USB Drop Attacks What is a USB drop attack? In this attack, we use a program or dedicated hardware to make a computer think that is connected to a standard keyboard but in reality, it is connected to an automated system that sends predetermined keystrokes to the computer. …

The path to emotions for any device that takes data could be a removable disk. The disk, plugged in, would have some of the data stream pass through its quadrant, resulting in a few emotional expressions, including fear. In machine learning, data goes through layers, sometimes back again, to master…

What this article is not about: Creating and Loading a File System Image Emulating USB Mass Storage in Raspberry Pi or CentOS etc (but might be useful regardless) TLDR Version Clone https://github.com/xairy/raw-gadget. Jump into dummy_hcd sub-directory, build and insert kernel module: cd raw-gadgets/dummy_hcd make ./insmod.sh Create a virtual USB Storage…

Hello friends! A few months ago I wrote an article describing how to actually pass-thru a USB flash drive to a virtual machine in Hyper-V, without using any redirection. Today I found another method to accomplish the same goal, yet this method is much easier, faster, and works just as…

A step by step guide — A USB drive could malfunction for several reasons. In this guide, you’ll learn how to fix a USB drive showing read only filesystem message. I mistakenly unplugged my USB drive while copying a large file to my system. On plugging the USB drive back to my system, I could not…

USB audio is a great option for keeping your favorite music ready, without having to rely on the radio or Spotify on your phone. It is the spiritual successor to keeping CDs in the car, especially for cars that no longer have CD drives. …