Hard disk hacking

I am very curious about how long this hack took to complete. I write firmware for SSD controllers for a living, and this would probably take me many months of full-time work to pull off with an unknown controller (granted, I generally work on algorithms at a slightly higher abstraction layer in the firmware, and some of my colleagues who are more focused on the hardware interfaces could figure something like this out much faster than me). I am incredibly…

Sprites is someone that I feel truly epitomises the original hacking spirit. His ability to understand the inner-workings of a large variety of things, strip them down to their bare elements and combine them in different ways to make something new is nothing short of impressive. His hacks section is very entertaining (https://spritesmods.com/?art=hardware). My favourites are his Minecraft portal and his automatic jello-shot printer made from old CD-ROM parts.