Reverse engineering and update-protocol research for the M-Vave FM-1 synthesizer. Package, SPL, and SDK provenance identify the target as JieLi AC791N/WL82 with a pi32v2 CPU, XIP flash at 0x02000000, and a Dexed/msfa-derived six-operator FM engine. The embedded JL-BR22 string is … Read more
Copy codeCopyCopied! CAN_FRAME:1024,false,[0, 40, 87, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0]CAN_FRAME:1025,false,[74, bd, 0, 0, 16, c, 0, 0]CAN_FRAME:1028,false,[20, 4e, 0, 0, 1, 0, b9, b]CAN_FRAME:1024,false,[0, 40, 87, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0]CAN_FRAME:1025,false,[74, bd, 0, 0, 16, c, 0, 0]CAN_FRAME:1028,false,[20, 4e, 0, … Read more
We constantly work with different datasets that we normalize into our data lake. Recently we received CronosPro database files (CroBank.dat, CroIndex.dat, and CroStru.dat) that were thought to be broken because existing tooling could not parse them correctly. Anyone who has … Read more
About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I’m not going to repeat the arguments … Read more
Target: ti84plus.rom (1 MiB flash dump). OS self-identifies as 2.55MP. CPU: Zilog Z80 (16-bit address bus, 64 KiB logical space) with hardware flash/RAM paging. Ghidra project: ti84.gpr (rebuild: tools/build.sh). Confidence is flagged: [confirmed] = verified in disassembly/decompiler; [standard] = matches … Read more
I recently purchased a Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X soundbar (what a mouthful) to replace my old, cheap Logitech computer speakers. They served me well, but listening to music or watching movies was not the best-sounding experience. After arriving, I … Read more
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle, providing lab space for astronauts and experiments. Spacelab was controlled by a French-built minicomputer, called the Mitra 125 MS. Unlike modern computers, this … Read more
A video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe. Phosphene is a menu bar app + wallpaper extension that plays your own video files as the macOS desktop and lock-screen wallpaper. It plugs into the system’s native wallpaper picker, so videos appear … Read more
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 5:05 PM I woke up the other day and asked: could an LLM reverse engineer a modern clone of my favorite childhood video game? So I did it. towers.world is live today and allows collaborative, … Read more
Discovering, detecting, and surgically removing Google’s AI watermark through spectral analysis This project reverse-engineers Google’s SynthID watermarking system – the invisible watermark embedded into every image generated by Google Gemini. Using only signal processing and spectral analysis (no access to … Read more