[Jenna] sent in a very cool bootloader she thought people might like. It’s called Micronucleus and it turns the lowly ATtiny 85 into a chip with a USB interface capable of being upgraded via a ‘viral’ ...

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Here you can learn many more interesting and useful about USB bootloaders for AVR microcontrollers. In practice, one of the most proper microcontroller programming method is using a bootloader program ...

There are a few different ways of getting firmware onto one of AVR’s ATtiny85 microcontrollers, including bootloaders that allow for firmware to be updated without the need to plug the chip into a ...

Cybersecurity threats are likely to increase not only because of hackers, but because the emergence of quantum computing will render existing cryptography standards obsolete. A startup company, ...

The firmware of the Flipper One is already publicly available, and there's a lot of interesting tech.

Orqa, a maker of First Person View (FPV) drone racing goggles, claims that a contractor introduced code into its devices' firmware that acted as a time bomb designed to brick them. On early Saturday, ...

Some signed third-party bootloaders for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) could allow attackers to execute unauthorized code in an early stage of the boot process, before the operating ...