Manufacturers of consumer electronics are constantly revising their designs over the lifetime of each product, generally for four reasons: Yield improvements — fix flaws that caused lots of warranty returns Cost reduction — use cheaper or fewer parts, so that profit margin increases or the retail cost can be lowered (or both) Part refresh — […]
Wii Hardware: a history
August 29th, 2009 · 13 Comments
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of TMDs and hardware
August 20th, 2009 · 29 Comments
Most of you probably remember our infamous attempt to open a line of communication with Nintendo. We chose that bug because a previous attempt at communication had failed — we had thought that them fixing the strncmp bug in the System Menu’s IOS could cause the system menu to brick when it tried to load […]
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complete USBGecko source, schematics released
August 19th, 2009 · 12 Comments
This happened a couple of weeks ago, but I only found out about it recently. Nuke released the full kit-n-kaboodle of USBGecko as open-source at http://code.google.com/p/usbgecko/ — this includes not only the source code for the latest WiiRd and GeckoOS under GPL, but the full schematics and VHDL files for the USBGecko itself under the […]
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