{"id":10662,"date":"2015-10-28T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/hardware-hacking-by-nicolas-collins\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:53:27","slug":"hardware-hacking-by-nicolas-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/hardware-hacking-by-nicolas-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Hacking by Nicolas Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HardwareHackers2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HardwareHackers2.jpg\" width=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>David Cowhig WA1LBP and I are the only two Foreign Service officers to have also been 73 Magazine &#8220;Hambassadors&#8221; (impressive, right?). David was covering Okinawa for 73 (and for Uncle Sam!) while I was doing the same in the Dominican Republic. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Today David sent me a link to the book &#8220;Hardware Hacking&#8221; by Nicolas Collins: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolascollins.com\/texts\/originalhackingmanual.pdf\"><strong>http:\/\/www.nicolascollins.com\/texts\/originalhackingmanual.pdf<\/strong><\/a><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>It is not exactly about ham radio, but there is a lot of electronic wisdom in Mr. Collins&#8217; book. You folks will like it. I especially liked the hand-drawn schematics &#8212; this adds soul to the book. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Nicolas Collins is an interesting fellow. He is Profesor, Department of Sound, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicolas_Collins\"><strong>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicolas_Collins<\/strong><\/a><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolascollins.com\/read.htm\"><strong>http:\/\/www.nicolascollins.com\/read.htm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cowhig WA1LBP and I are the only two Foreign Service officers to have also been 73 Magazine &#8220;Hambassadors&#8221; (impressive, right?). David was covering Okinawa for 73 (and for Uncle Sam!) while I was doing the same in the Dominican Republic. Today David sent me a link to the book &#8220;Hardware Hacking&#8221; by Nicolas Collins: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/hardware-hacking-by-nicolas-collins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hardware Hacking by Nicolas Collins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,103,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-knack-stories","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10664,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions\/10664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}