About
I'm Alex (who sometimes goes by the memorable name of0x416c6578). I am a software developer in the aerospace and navigation domain, and I have interests in embedded programming and hardware hacking.
Info about my education can be found here.
19.07.24 - Kia Rio Headunit Passcode Reverse Engineering
- Using Ghidra and Hashcat to crack the password to my Kia Rio headunit
11.11.23 - Alesis Core 1 Audio Interface Level Control Potentiometer Fix
- Fixing an Alesis Core 1 audio interface with some top level bodging
08.10.23 - LineageOS Hosts File Editing Without Root
- How to edit an Android hosts file without root (although with custom recovery / secure boot disabled)
06.10.21 - Messing with the LDS-006 Laser Assembly
- Yet more work on the LDS-006 Lidar (currently latest)
14.09.21 - Work on Decoding Serial Data from LIDAR
- Figuring out the serial data format of the LDS-006
12.09.21 - Fixing Periodic Resets of LDS-006 CPU
- Figuring out how interrupts work on the GD32 CPU
10.09.21 - Messing With GD32F130F6P6
- Getting the toolchain setup and building barebones firmware for the GD32
09.09.21 - Updates on the LDS-006 Lidar
- More work on the LDS-006 (exploring the hardware)
03.09.21 - Fixing Android Messaging Heads Up Notifications
- Messing with Android a bit
25.08.21 - (Mis)adventures With the LDS-006 Lidar
- First exploration of the LDS-006 Lidar
25.08.20 - XFCE4 Automatic Theme Switching
- For my own reference
21.08.20 - Various Snippets of Info From p8-firmware Sources
- Coolest thing was finding a bug in the
arduino-nRF5SDK
25.07.20 - A Deep Dive into LVGL Fonts
- A detailed look at the LVGL font format, with some reverse engineering thanks to my apparent aversion to reading the documentation
Large Projects
LDS-006 Lidar (2021, WIP)
p8-firmware (Summer 2020)
SAP-1 (2018/19, Extended Project Qualification)
Small Projects
Arduino LED Strip Controller
ESP8266 Laser Turret
Arduino EEPROM Dumper
- Code for Arduino based projects can be found here
I have various FreeCAD models for random things available on this repo.