Alex

About

Hi! I’m Alex (who sometimes goes by the memorable name of0x416c6578), a backend software developer in the aerospace and navigation domain. I have interests in embedded programming and hardware hacking. Some info about my education can be found here. Some of my work can be found at github.com/0x416c6578.

19.07.24 - Kia Rio Headunit Passcode Reverse Engineering Using Ghidra and Hashcat to crack the password to my Kia Rio headunit
08.10.23 - LineageOS Hosts File Editing Without Root How to edit an Android hosts file without root (although with custom recovery / secure boot disabled)
06.10.21 - Messing with the LDS-006 Laser Assembly Yet more work on the LDS-006 Lidar (currently latest)
14.09.21 - Work on Decoding Serial Data from LIDAR Figuring out the serial data format of the LDS-006
12.09.21 - Fixing Periodic Resets of LDS-006 CPU Figuring out how interrupts work on the GD32 CPU
10.09.21 - Messing With GD32F130F6P6 Getting the toolchain setup and building barebones firmware for the GD32
09.09.21 - Updates on the LDS-006 Lidar More work on the LDS-006 (exploring the hardware)
03.09.21 - Fixing Android Messaging Heads Up Notifications Messing with Android a bit
25.08.21 - (Mis)adventures With the LDS-006 Lidar First exploration of the LDS-006 Lidar
25.08.20 - XFCE4 Automatic Theme Switching For my own reference
21.08.20 - Various Snippets of Info From p8-firmware Sources Coolest thing was finding a bug in the arduino-nRF5 SDK
25.07.20 - A Deep Dive into LVGL Fonts A detailed look at the LVGL font format, with some reverse engineering thanks to my apparent aversion to reading the documentation

Book Notes

Various notes on stuff I have been reading - mainly for my own reference.
Pro Git
Go Notes

Hardware Projects

LDS-006 Lidar Work
P8 Firmware
SAP-1 (Extended Project Qualification)

Smaller Things

Arduino LED Strip Controller
ESP8266 Laser Turret
Arduino EEPROM Dumper
Alesis Core 1 Audio Interface Level Control Potentiometer Fix