Want to get a Firmware update? Film these 14 minutes of QR codes. I love and hate this at the same time :D
Edit: The sequence repeats itself after a while so it like 2 Minutes of QR codes.
Did you know that it is possible to create a fully functional rootfs from an OTA update?
Since the AppleTV HD is so similar to the HomePod 1st gen, we can just use the atv restore ramdisk for the HomePod.
We made a script to create a custom ipsw for the HomePod (using atv ipsw as donor for ramdisk), which you can restore from pwnDFU (using regular idevicerestore) to unbrick your homepod from a software update failure!
Check it out here https://github.com/tihmstar/homepodstuff
Sometimes you just don't have the right connector, none of the alternatives you have will fit, and even your smallest crimp terminal is too big.
So you shove a piece of wire over the pin.
And that, friends, is how I got access to U-Boot on an Extron IN1608 HDBT, dumped the NAND flash, and fixed the corruption which was stopping it from booting 🥳 🎉 #ElectronicsRepair
Would you have guessed there was not just a UART, but also an MMC/SD interface on the diagnostic connector? I didn't.
and to no ones surprise
livingcomputers.org is gone
will they be nuking the github projects too?
git clone while you can
https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum