The Hardware Hacking Handbook

Foreword

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when hardware was relegated to the fringes of hacking. Many considered it too difficult to get involved with. “Hardware is hard,” they’d say. Of course, this is true of anything before you become familiar with it.

When I was a juvenile delinquent with a passion for hardware hacking, access to knowledge and technology was often out of reach. I’d jump into dumpsters to find discarded equipment, steal materials out of company vehicles, and build tools described in text files with schematics fashioned from ASCII art. I’d sneak into university libraries to find data books, beg for free samples ...