Howdy,

This event is for the HacDC Hardware Hacking Course I'm going to run over the course of several weekends. This event, scheduled for March 13, 2010 at 3:00PM is Course 0, we're going to essentially do the "kit build" during this class time. Our hardware is going to be the GoodFET 21, open-source JTAG adapter. From the website:

"The GoodFET is an open-source JTAG adapter, loosely based upon the TI MSP430 FET UIF and EZ430U boards, as described in their documentation. See Improving the MSP430 FET on Travis Goodspeed's blog for further information. In addition to JTAG, the GoodFET has been inspired by HackADay's Bus Pirate to become a universal serial bus interface."

Travis is a great friend of HacDC and perhaps one of  the most neighborly fellows you will ever meet. His device is quickly becoming the platform for hardware hackers world-wide. Due to his constant upgrades of the hardware and a steady following of developers the device has built support for SPI, AVR, MSP430, Chipcon Radios and even some more advanced techniques such as Voltage-Glitching. All will be explained and the foundations laid during Course 0, we will build our very own device and in future course iterations, hopefully  progress to furthering our hardware hacking knowledge as a whole, in more of a "study group" then lecture series.

BE PREPARED:

This is ALL surface-mount soldering at the 0603 (6 mm x 3 mm) size. Hot-air, solder paste and flux will be used, this is a bit more advanced then the earlier through-hole kit builds so bring your A-Game. I will do my best to prepare all students for this exercise starting from how to use the hot-air and paste correctly as to not bludgeon, burn or maul yourself or any fellow students.

If you have any questions contact me directly at: q the q labs.com or ping me on the HacDC Blabber List

Cheers,

-Q