Remove Google’s Digital Wellbeing spyware from Android via ADB
Recently my phone has been updated to Android 10, with it I found the Digital Wellbeing spyware reinstalled and now fully baked in (no uninstall or disable option). The prerequisite for this process:...
View Articlenvtk_mp42gpx.py revisited – now with TS support
It appears that not only my quick hack of a script is popular but also that the dashcam manufacturers keep changing things. In this case the biggest change (beyond utterly stupid data obfuscation) is...
View ArticlePredatory practices of Dash Cam manufacturers
Recently I was contacted regarding my dash cam GPS coordinate extraction script. The request was regarding wrong data being produced. I have addressed something similar in the past, so I decided to...
View ArticleInterfacing INA219 Board with micropython
I needed a solution to monitor both current and voltage for my battery powered microcontroller projects. The gotcha was in the measured input being above the Vcc of the microcontroller. I found INA219...
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Interfacing PTC06 UART camera with micropython
For a while I was looking a simple camera that I could use with micropython and ESP32 board. Initially I looked at Arducam 2MP camera, but that turned out to be a real pain to interface with, and it...
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High Side Power Switch for a microcontroller
High Side Power Switch for a Microcontroller Notes: The MOSFET is of a P-Channel type, can be pretty much any P-Channel as long as the On-Resistance is low and it can sustain sufficient current. The...
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Approximating SoC of a Lithium Ion battery using atan
I recently deep-dived into a topic of look up tables and interpolation simply because I wanted to have relatively simple representation of State of Charge for one of my projects. The difficulty I...
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A peculiar case of I/O errors with cheap SFF-8643 cables
This saga could also be named “Why my very expensive LSI 9305-24i drops disks?”. I recently acquired (from ebay as I cannot justify giving $2000NZ to local scumbags) an LSI 9305-24i controller to...
View ArticleRemoving Annoying Secure Wifi from Samsung phones
If you made a mistake of buying a Samsung Android phone, I pity you. Nevertheless at least it is still an Android and the blatant greedy double dipping can be addresses via the ADB.Specifically...
View ArticleStop google-chrome from hijacking MIMEs
For some idiotic/evil reason Google Chrome is hijacking MIME associations in Linux (configuration that decided which applications opens a particular file type). This happens every time Google Chrome...
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