February 2018 – Mighty Devices

MIPI DSI Tx interface for Ipod Nano 7th gen

Posted on February 20, 2018September 24, 2019 by twatorowski

Before reading this post I highly recommend that you pay a visit to Mike’s Electric stuff webpage where Mike describes the reverse engineering of the Ipod Nano 6th gen LCD. It it essential to have at least some understanding of how it works since Ipod 7 LCD (IP7 for short) does it’s job in a…

Reverse Engineering Antminer S1

Posted on February 1, 2018September 24, 2019 by twatorowski

Antminer S1 is the 1st generation of Bitcoin mining hardware based on Bitmain Technologies chip marked as BM1380. There are 64 chips (2 boards, 32 chips each) per miner offering hash rates at around 120GH/s under normal conditions. In this article I present my approach at reverse engineering the communication protocol the chips use in…