Tag: linux

  • Resto-modding the Brookstone Rover

    Resto-modding the Brookstone Rover

    Since I got into embedded devices, I’ve been tearing apart and learning about anything I can get my hands on and dug out my old Brookstone Rover to try and hack it. Someone had already reverse-engineered the protocol to make an Android app (the original was iOS only), but I wanted to see what I…

  • Restoring functionality to the discontinued Belkin Netcam F7D7601v1

    Restoring functionality to the discontinued Belkin Netcam F7D7601v1

    A while ago, I found two of these cameras at a Goodwill for 99c each and picked them up without doing even a second of research. At this point, I wasn’t too familiar with IP cameras and just assumed Home Assistant (which I was knee deep in the weeds with at the time) would support…