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Hardware-hacking projects on GitHub
As of , the most-starred Hardware-hacking projects on GitHub are ESP32-Bit-Pirate (6.2K stars), gpu-unlock-ada (2.6K stars) and hackios-xnu-kernel (1.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 7 Hardware-hacking repositories with 13.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 25 was gpu-unlock-ada, with +1.9K stars in a day.
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+1.9Kgpu-unlock-ada
JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada · ★ 2.6KThis is a Linux kernel module that unlocks hidden tensor-core speed on certain NVIDIA GeForce GPUs (RTX 4090, and experimentally RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and RTX 4060 Ti 16GB) by overriding an SM speed-select register before the stock NVIDIA driver binds, roughly doubling FP16/BF16 tensor throughput.
+177hackios-xnu-kernel
oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel · ★ 1.5KHackiOS boots Apple's open-source XNU kernel (the kernel behind iOS 16.5) on Android phone hardware (or in QEMU) and runs the unmodified iOS 16.5 user space — launchd, backboardd, SpringBoard and apps — on top of it.
+42ios-sweet
dipa-studio/ios-sweet · ★ 1.1Kios-sweet ports Apple's open-source XNU kernel (xnu-8796, the iOS 16 generation) to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro (sweet, Qualcomm SM7150), running the real iPhone X iOS 16.7.16 userland (launchd, SpringBoard, backboardd, stock apps) on the phone.
+20ESP32-Bit-Pirate
geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate · ★ 6.2KESP32 Bit Pirate is open-source firmware that turns an ESP32-S3 board into a multi-protocol hardware hacking and development tool, inspired by the Bus Pirate, letting you sniff, send and script digital and radio protocols.
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#1 · geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-PirateESP32-Bit-Pirate
ESP32 Bit Pirate is open-source firmware that turns an ESP32-S3 board into a multi-protocol hardware hacking and development tool, inspired by the Bus Pirate, letting you sniff, send and script digital and radio protocols.
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#2 · JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-adagpu-unlock-ada
This is a Linux kernel module that unlocks hidden tensor-core speed on certain NVIDIA GeForce GPUs (RTX 4090, and experimentally RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and RTX 4060 Ti 16GB) by overriding an SM speed-select register before the stock NVIDIA driver binds, roughly doubling FP16/BF16 tensor throughput.
- 1.5K
#3 · oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernelhackios-xnu-kernel
HackiOS boots Apple's open-source XNU kernel (the kernel behind iOS 16.5) on Android phone hardware (or in QEMU) and runs the unmodified iOS 16.5 user space — launchd, backboardd, SpringBoard and apps — on top of it.
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EchoMuse
1.3Kwilbowes/EchoMuse · PythonIt turns a second-hand Amazon Echo Dot (2nd gen, 2016) into a local voice satellite for Home Assistant: say the wake word, ask, and hear the answer from the Dot. No Amazon account, no Alexa, no cloud - the microphones, speaker, LED ring and buttons keep working.
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ios-sweet
1.1Kdipa-studio/ios-sweet · Pythonios-sweet ports Apple's open-source XNU kernel (xnu-8796, the iOS 16 generation) to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro (sweet, Qualcomm SM7150), running the real iPhone X iOS 16.7.16 userland (launchd, SpringBoard, backboardd, stock apps) on the phone.
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ios-topaz
571MakrSas/ios-topaz · Cios-topaz is an experimental port of Apple's unmodified iOS 16.7.16 userland and the open-source XNU kernel to run on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 4G Android phone (topaz/tapas, Snapdragon 685), booting all the way to the iOS lock screen.
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hackios-xnu-userland
383oosexgang/hackios-xnu-userlandHackiOS-userland is the user-space half of HackiOS, a project that runs Apple's open-source XNU kernel with an unmodified iOS 16.5 user space on Android phone hardware (a POCO X5 Pro 5G) and in QEMU.
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