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Index
Praise for The Hardware Hacker
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
brief contents
contents in detail
preface
part 1: adventures in manufacturing
Chapter 1. made in china
The Ultimate Electronic Component Flea Market
The Next Technological Revolution
Touring Factories with Chumby
Scale in Shenzhen
Feeding the Factory
Dedication to Quality
Building Technology Without Using It
Skilled Workers
The Need for Craftspeople
Automation for Electronics Assembly
Precision, Injection Molding, and Patience
The Challenge of Quality
Closing Thoughts
Chapter 2. inside three very different factories
Where Arduinos Are Born
Starting with a Sheet of Copper
Applying the PCB Pattern to the Copper
Etching the PCBs
Applying Soldermask and Silkscreen
Testing and Finishing the Boards
Where USB Memory Sticks Are Born
The Beginning of a USB Stick
Hand-Placing Chips on a PCB
Bonding the Chips to the PCB
A Close Look at the USB Stick Boards
A Tale of Two Zippers
A Fully Automated Process
A Semiautomated Process
The Irony of Scarcity and Demand
Chapter 3. the factory floor
How to Make a Bill of Materials
A Simple BOM for a Bicycle Safety Light
Approved Manufacturers
Tolerance, Composition, and Voltage Specification
Electronic Component Form Factor
Extended Part Numbers
The Bicycle Safety Light BOM Revisited
Planning for and Coping with Change
Process Optimization: Design for Manufacturing
Why DFM?
Tolerances to Consider
Following DFM Helps Your Bottom Line
The Product Behind Your Product
Testing vs. Validation
Finding Balance in Industrial Design
The chumby One’s Trim and Finish
The Arduino Uno’s Silkscreen Art
My Design Process
Picking (and Maintaining) a Partner
Tips for Forming a Relationship with a Factory
Tips on Quotations
Miscellaneous Advice
Closing Thoughts
part 2: thinking differently: intellectual property in china
Chapter 4. gongkai innovation
I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome
Shanzhai as Entrepreneurs
Who Are the Shanzhai?
More Than Copycats
Community-Enforced IP Rules
The $12 Phone
Inside the $12 Phone
Introducing Gongkai
From Gongkai to Open Source
Engineers Have Rights, Too
Closing Thoughts
Chapter 5. fake goods
Well-Executed Counterfeit Chips
Counterfeit Chips in US Military Hardware
Types of Counterfeit Parts
Fakes and US Military Designs
Anticounterfeit Measures
Fake MicroSD Cards
Visible Differences
Investigating the Cards
Were the MicroSD Cards Authentic?
Further Forensic Investigation
Gathering Data
Summarizing My Findings
Fake FPGAs
The White Screen Issue
Incorrect ID Codes
The Solution
Closing Thoughts
part 3: what open hardware means to me
Chapter 6. the story of chumby
A Hacker-Friendly Platform
Evolving chumby
A More Hackable Device
Hardware with No Secrets
The End of Chumby, New Adventures
Why the Best Days of Open Hardware Are Yet to Come
Where We Came From: Open to Closed
Where We Are: “Sit and Wait” vs. “Innovate”
Where We’re Going: Heirloom Laptops
An Opportunity for Open Hardware
Closing Thoughts
Chapter 7. novena: building my own laptop
Not a Laptop for the Faint of Heart
Designing the Early Novena
Under the Hood
The Enclosure
The Heirloom Laptop’s Custom Wood Composite
Growing Novenas
The Mechanical Engineering Details
Changes to the Finished Product
Case Construction and Injection-Molding Problems
Changes to the Front Bezel
DIY Speakers
The PVT2 Mainboard
A Breakout Board for Beginners
The Desktop Novena’s Power Pass-Through Board
Custom Battery Pack Problems
Choosing a Hard Drive
Finalizing Firmware
Building a Community
Closing Thoughts
Chapter 8. chibitronics: creating circuit stickers
Crafting with Circuits
Developing a New Process
Visiting the Factory
Performing a Process Capability Test
Delivering on a Promise
Why On-Time Delivery Is Important
Lessons Learned
Not All Simple Requests Are Simple for Everyone
Never Skip a Check Plot
If a Component Can Be Placed Incorrectly, It Will Be
Some Concepts Don’t Translate into Chinese Well
Eliminate Single Points of Failure
Some Last-Minute Changes Are Worth It
Chinese New Year Impacts the Supply Chain
Shipping Is Expensive and Difficult
You’re Not Out of the Woods Until You Ship
Closing Thoughts
part 4: a hacker’s perspective
Chapter 9. hardware hacking
Hacking the PIC18F1320
Decapping the IC
Taking a Closer Look
Erasing the Flash Memory
Erasing the Security Bits
Protecting the Other Data
Hacking SD Cards
How SD Cards Work
Reverse Engineering the Card’s Microcontroller
Potential Security Issues
A Resource for Hobbyists
Hacking HDCP-Secured Links to Allow Custom Overlays
Background and Context
How NeTV Worked
Hacking a Shanzhai Phone
The System Architecture
Reverse Engineering the Boot Structure
Building a Beachhead
Attaching a Debugger
Booting an OS
Building a New Toolchain
Fernvale Results
Closing Thoughts
Chapter 10. biology and bioinformatics
Comparing H1N1 to a Computer Virus
DNA and RNA as Bits
Organisms Have Unique Access Ports
Hacking Swine Flu
Adaptable Influenza
A Silver Lining
Reverse Engineering Superbugs
The O104:H4 DNA Sequence
Reversing Tools for Biology
Answering Biological Questions with UNIX Shell Scripts
More Questions Than Answers
Mythbusting Personalized Genomics
Myth: Having Your Genome Read Is Like Hex-Dumping the ROM of Your Computer
Myth: We Know Which Mutations Predict Disease
Myth: The Reference Genome Is an Accurate Reference
Patching a Genome
CRISPRs in Bacteria
Determining Where to Cut a Gene
Implications for Engineering Humans
Hacking Evolution with Gene Drive
Closing Thoughts
Chapter 11. selected interviews
Andrew “bunnie” Huang: Hardware Hacker (CSDN)
About Open Hardware and the Maker Movement
About Hardware Hackers
The Blueprint Talks to Andrew Huang
epilogue
index
about the author
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Footnotes
Chapter 1. made in china
Chapter 2. inside three very different factories
Part 2: thinking differently: intellectual property in china
Chapter 4. gongkai innovation
Chapter 5. fake goods
Chapter 6. the story of chumby
Chapter 7. novena: building my own laptop
Chapter 9. hardware hacking
Chapter 10. biology and bioinformatics
Chapter 11. selected interviews
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