Reinventing black boxes
summary
Reconstructs actual hacks and outcomes: reverse engineering BitKeeper by connecting with telnet and discovering a BitKeeper telnet clone revealed full history; extracting USB logs from Kinect-like devices, using Wireshark style packet dumps, gstreamer, libusb, bus pirate and objdump; building a Linux driver (kernel patch and userland lib) that produces depth 640x480 at 60fps and exposing controls such as laser power 0–16 changed depth capture; library work continues and shutdown still requires unplugging.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45Black boxes
- 1:32Bitkeeper
- 3:21Andrew Tridge
- 7:30Tools
- 8:40Network Tools
- 9:11Debuggers
- 10:40Object Dump
- 21:36Qt
- 33:07Depth
- 33:28Temperature
- 34:32Metal expanding
- 36:27Collaboration
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