The Hardware Hacking Handbook

A Maxing Out Your Credit Card: Setting Up a Test Lab

This appendix describes the equipment we used for the work covered in this book. If you’re setting up a hardware hacking lab, this appendix can also serve as a “shopping list” of useful equipment. We explore a range of options—everything for those with budgets ranging from millions to tens of dollars. We also provide many do-it-yourself options to help with lower-cost setups.

We introduce equipment based on specific outcomes you want to achieve, and we discuss this equipment roughly in the order we followed in the book itself. We also cover the basic equipment (multimeters and soldering ...