So it's been a while since I had time to post anything. Classes keep me pretty busy. since I last posted I wrote a program to do Ohm's law calculations, mostly just for fun, drew the circuit for a 4bit adder and then wired a 4bit adder (with some help of my lab partner finishing the last half), started building a lab bench power supply from an ATX power supply, determined my DE0-CV was faulty, Got a new DE0, determined that one was faulty too and finally got a working DE0 (before me there had only been one faulty board throughout the entire program's history using them) and now I've got a IBM ThinkPad t42 with a supervisor password and no one knows the password so looks like I will be learning about I2C and writing to an eeprom to overwrite the supervisor password. IBM took security to heart when making these things. It's not easy to reset the supervisor password. unfortunately till I change the password the t42 is a brick. In the past IBM/Lenovo could repair the laptop if you ever locked yourself out, but I doubt they service laptops from over a decade ago lol.
Lots of learning and projects going on. my lab group is a week ahead as they changed the schedule around after we had already finished the 4 bit adder. Seems most other groups weren't having as much luck as my group did. unfortunately the only real projects I'm working on are the eeprom hacking and the ATX lab power supply and one uses methods that can break into the bios of any Lenovo ThinkPad laptop from the last decade and the other is just extremely dangerous if you aren't experienced so I won't go into any detail on those projects. I do hope to do some more conventional (and safe) projects soon so hopefully I can talk about those when I get to them.
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