0x416c6578

About

I’m Alex (who sometimes goes by the memorable name of0x416c6578). I am a software developer in the aerospace and navigation domain, and I have interests in embedded programming and hardware hacking.

Info about my education can be found here.

19.07.24 - Kia Rio Headunit Passcode Reverse Engineering

• Using Ghidra and Hashcat to crack the password to my Kia Rio headunit

11.11.23 - Alesis Core 1 Audio Interface Level Control Potentiometer Fix

• Fixing an Alesis Core 1 audio interface with some top level bodging

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

Large Projects

LDS-006 Lidar (2021, WIP)
p8-firmware (Summer 2020)
SAP-1 (2018/19, Extended Project Qualification)

Small Projects

Arduino LED Strip Controller
ESP8266 Laser Turret
Arduino EEPROM Dumper

• Code for Arduino based projects can be found here

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I have various FreeCAD models for random things available on this repo.

Links

Github

Unclassifiables

Music