choosing hackable home appliances

choosing hackable home appliances

[Daniel Pocock]

A lot more home appliances have some kind of software in them, including
toasters, fridges, bluetooth toilets, etc.

Has anybody started cataloguing which of these devices are more hackable?

Are there any lists of such products where the vendor openly supports
hacking the product or releases GPL code?

Are there any articles, blogs, wikis or How-to documents which might
help people who are new to hardware hacking and want to take a look
inside their device, share information about the chipset and any
connectors, extract a firmware dump, etc?

Regards,

Daniel


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Re: choosing hackable home appliances

[David Hedlund]

I added
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Home_automation
(also listed at
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Participate/Project_Team#Home_automation)
-- note that we don't add Replicant (Android) apps to the site. Please
let us know if someone want to be a Team Captain for this project. I
don't have time for it.

On 2018-07-08 22:03, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> A lot more home appliances have some kind of software in them, including
> toasters, fridges, bluetooth toilets, etc.
>
> Has anybody started cataloguing which of these devices are more hackable?
>
> Are there any lists of such products where the vendor openly supports
> hacking the product or releases GPL code?
>
> Are there any articles, blogs, wikis or How-to documents which might
> help people who are new to hardware hacking and want to take a look
> inside their device, share information about the chipset and any
> connectors, extract a firmware dump, etc?
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
>
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choosing hackable home appliances

[Tony Chidester]

A lot more home appliances have some kind of software in them, including 
toasters, fridges, bluetooth toilets, etc. 

Has anybody started cataloguing which of these devices are more hackable? 
There’s https://www.exploitee.rs however, it may not be up to date, and many manufacturers have patched the exploits already. (For instance, the method used to root an Ooma Telo is no longer possible as they removed a large piece of functionality to keep device owners from accessing the underlying OS!)

Are there any lists of such products where the vendor openly supports 
hacking the product or releases GPL code? 

Are there any articles, blogs, wikis or How-to documents which might 
help people who are new to hardware hacking and want to take a look 
inside their device, share information about the chipset and any 
connectors, extract a firmware dump, etc? 


Hackaday has some less-technical blogs about getting started. You may also want to find a copy of “Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty” by Joe Grand and Ryan Russell.
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