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IM-ME Linux Drivers Beta Release and Sourceforge Page

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Tagged: hacking-im-me-driver-linux-c-protocol-reverse-engineering im-me hacking linux open-source sourceforge programming

To follow up on my earlier articles, the IM-ME has been gaining some traction in the hacking community. There’s been a couple of driver releases in various forms, as well as a lot of information and protocol specs. Scott Albertine sent me a great gpl implementation in C, so we’ve made a sourceforge page for everyone to download the driver.

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Great New Z2 Userland from RootNexus

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Tagged: zipit-z2 zipit z2 linux rootnexus userland news

Although I’ve been spending my time on other hacking projects besides the Z2 lately, that does not mean there’s nothing exciting happening in the Z2 community. Our friend SoundGuy has finished putting together his Z2 root image, and it is slick! After working out some of the kinks with help from our comments (they are practically forums now…) threads, SoundGuy posted up a link to his newest “For the Average User” userland image. Terrific work! He’s really got a good eye for usability. More info after the break.

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17$ Mobile Java Gaming Console - Plus Sample Code and Application To Get You Started!

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Tagged: hacking games programming cheap repurposing arm source-code

I finally had a few minutes to start working through the new list of ‘to hack’ items this weekend, so I started with the Nickelodean NPower fusion gaming console. Buy.com had these for 17$, and I’ve seen them at various secondhand retailers here in southern California for about the same. It supports j2me, cldc1.1, and midp2. For 17$ this would be a fantastic target for a beginning java games developer. The absolute rock bottom price would allow for some fun opportunities like beta test groups, without the terrible expense usually incurred purchasing mobile devices.

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Hacking the Girltech IM-ME USB Wireless device

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Tagged: im-me hacking linux usb repurposing network

The Girltech IM-ME is a basic usb radio transmiter paired with a small console like device. It was suggested to me on the TP hacking thread I posted up a while ago. Hacking the IM-ME turned out to be an easy reverse-engineer, as there is no crypto to worry about and everything is sent in cleartext hex (everything). For 12$, this makes quite a nice little wireless console device. Read on for the protocol and info on implementing your own driver After ordering the IM-ME as a filler item on Amazon (what won’t I do for super-saver shipping), I plugged it in to my linux box. It was recognized as a standard HID device. This is good, as Girltech obviously didn’t go to any great lengths to protect the communication coming off this thing. At this point, I could have either loaded up a windows VM with a promiscuous USB driver at the host OS level, or loaded up a windows VM with snoopypro installed. I went (as I usually do when reverse-engineering usb protocols) with snoopypro. The output driver strings are quite easy to read and patterns are colored by communication direction.

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