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What can be done with the reverse-engineered data about the PCB? You have a working one, you reverse-engineer it, and then ultimately you can make your own?
by MuffinFlavored 3y ago
What can be done with the reverse-engineered data about the PCB? You have a working one, you reverse-engineer it, and then ultimately you can make your own?
- nyanpasu64 3y agoPCB information is useful for, among other things, doing board-level diagnostics and repairs of broken electronics to avoid turning it into e-waste.
- MegaDeKay 3y agoIt can be used to find connection points to signals that would otherwise be inaccessible or at least hard to get to. This has come in pretty handy for the latest wave of Nintendo Switch hacks like Picofly. The scan-sand-scan approach [0] has the advantage over this hack where you can do something like the "kamikaze mod" [1] on the OLED Switch since you know where stuff is, not just what is connected to what. [0] https://balika011.hu/switch/lite/ https://balika011.hu/switch/lite/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnS7yfu3Qk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnS7yfu3Qk (not for the faint of heart)
- abricot 3y agoWow, grinding through 2 layers of PCB to get to the third. That takes dedication!