Michael Coppola

Reverse Engineering

  • Reverse Engineering a Furby

    Table of Contents Introduction This past semester I’ve been working on a directed study at my university with Prof. Wil Robertson reverse engineering embedded devices.  After a couple of months looking at a passport scanner, one of my friends jokingly suggested I hack a Furby, the notoriously annoying toy of late 1990s fame.  Everyone laughed,…

  • Summercon 2013: Hacking the Withings WS-30

    This past weekend I presented Weighing in on Issues with “Cloud Scale” at Summercon 2013 (the title is totally a joke, btw). In the presentation, I talked about my experience reverse engineering and hacking the Withings WS-30 WiFi-enabled bathroom scale, a fun little embedded device running Thumb-2 code. As mentioned during the talk, I’ve uploaded…