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Hacking a ₹249 Smartwatch: Custom Firmware on TLSR8232
A bike navigation idea led me to reverse engineer a ₹249 smartwatch, crack its SWire debug port, and flash my own firmware on it.
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Software
Reverse Engineering MoYoung Watch Faces in the Browser
A gifted Porodo watch, no SDK, and a binary format nobody documented. How I ended up writing a watch face editor.
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