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There are another few bunnie blogs [1] on that. The concept is called gongkai. It means open in the sense of IP is shared freely. 1. https://www.bunniestudios.
by carom 3y ago
There are another few bunnie blogs [1] on that. The concept is called gongkai. It means open in the sense of IP is shared freely.
1. https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297 https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
- jancsika 3y agoHm, if that's the case then why don't Western open source hardware projects just send a bilingual tourist over to Shenzhen to muck around until they connect with someone who can give them the docs needed to bootstrap the relevant firmware/drivers for the boards?
- aleph_minus_one 3y agoMy guess: legal concerns. What is legal (or at least tolerated) in China with respect to gongkai is not necessarily legal in the Western world.
- jancsika 3y agoI'm just surprised there seems to be no bridge whatsoever between the two. Like the developer asks, "what's the address to set this bit?" and the tourist responds with whatever it is.
- DeathArrow 3y agoBecause that costs money.
- numpad0 3y agoWhy wouldn't they be able to ask in IRC/Discord/whatever still works in Hong Kong? Or, just have a Taiwanese hacker guy in the group?
- contrarian1234 3y agoDo you know what he's up to? I remember he was working on some super encrypted FPGA phone ages ago.. and then I haven't hear his name in .. years?
- 0xCMP 3y agoHe is still working on it, the precursor, they're just starting development of the messaging app that will run on that dev platform and eventually run on the betrusted final device.
- bunnie 3y agoAh yes. The Precursor is real now, you can read more at https://precursor.dev https://precursor.dev. As a baseline it can function as a password/authentication token manager, but as another user mentioned we're adding messaging features now. Another thing I'm working on is IRIS, a non-destructive method for inspecting silicon chips after mounting on a circuit board: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07406 https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07406 It's part of a long yak-shaving arc to make the Precursor more accessible by migrating from an FPGA-based system to an ASIC.
- jacquesm 3y agoThat is still one of the most interesting reverse engineering blog posts ever. In the 80's I was pretty good at this stuff, especially figuring out various over-the-wire protocols to get hardware to do stuff that it wasn't intended to do. But this is on an entirely different level.
- kmeisthax 3y agoGongkai sounds like what happens in piracy scenes, or perhaps more specifically the game modding and ROM hacking scene. People innovating and modifying without giving a crap about who-owns-what.
- fennecbutt 3y agoHe he, that only tends flow in one direction, from what I've seen.