Archive for the ‘Hacking’ Category

Name that Ware, December 2019

Wednesday, December 25th, 2019

The Ware for December 2019 is shown below.

This one should be cakewalk, especially because I left some significant hints visible.

I love the construction of the ceramic decoupling capacitors — they look like modern surface-mount capacitors that have been put into retro glass tubes to give them through-hole legs!

Winner, Name that Ware November 2019

Wednesday, December 25th, 2019

The Ware for November 2019 was a Telxon PTC-960 barcode scanner. Congrats to middlet for nailing it. I was thinking that the tiny bit of the optoelectronic scanning mechanism would be the big hint for this one, but it looks like the LCD board ended up being the give-away. Congrats, and email me for your prize!

Name that Ware, November 2019

Sunday, December 1st, 2019

The Ware for November 2019 is shown below.

This is one half of the ware, and the more “generic” half. I left some pretty important hints during the cropping of this ware, though — if it’s too hard, I’ll add an image of the other half.

I also found the memory daughter card to be amusing, here’s a detail shot of it, removed:

Winner, Name that Ware October 2019

Sunday, December 1st, 2019

The Ware for October 2019 was a TomTom Multisport Cardio. After many years of reliable service it finally developed a small leak which lead to the failure of some buttons, and ultimately an inability to transfer data. Had to tear it apart and dry it out to extract the logs from the watch’s final journey, and figured it’d make an interesting ware to share. It was guessed very quickly, as I had expected — congrats to Ed Marshall, email me for your prize!

Name that Ware, October 2019

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

The Ware for October 2019 is shown below.

Should be a much easier ware than last month’s :)