[Noisebridge-discuss] The Hacker Space Olympics

[Felipe Sanches]

I'd like to suggest a reverse engineering category in this hacker
competitions event.

It would be similar to what somebody mentioned about disassembling a C64,
but with hardware that we still dont have much knowledge about. The task
would be to write documentation (like a wiki page?) with photos, schematics,
links to available datasheets, theories of how it may work internally and of
what may be the function of each component in the device.

All of these things could be understood as a collaborative effort towards
better understanding of the electronic devices that surround us. And it
would have the competitive struggle aspect also since we would be competing
against the secrecy practiced by hardware manufacturers who deny us
knowledge about these devices (and thus, deny us the ability to
control/repurpose them).

The outputs of these rev.eng. sprints would be useful for other activities
such as actual creation of new uses for these devices. The "repurposing"
category in the competition would benefit of all of this documentation
effort.

Felipe "Juca" Sanches
Hackerspace São Paulo - Brazil (upcoming)
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