Presented at
PhreakNIC 21 (2017),
Nov. 3, 2017, 1 p.m.
(60 minutes)
How to reverse engineer a printed circuit board using only a flat bed scanner, drafting program and a multi-meter--and a lot of time.
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Jonathan Ryan
In 1995 I bought a brand new Ford diesel pickup truck, which was the first computer-controlled diesel engine sold in the US. Knowing it was new technology, I knew there were no mechanics who knew how to work on it, so I bought the factory service manual and read it, so I could do my own work.
A few years later, I found an internet forum of fellow enthusiasts, and since I had read the service manual, I was a de-facto expert. (Although I didn't see myself as an expert.) Fast forward to 2003, and this interest turned into a hobby, and then a business specializing in Ford diesels. In 2009, after starting to see a lot of failures in the Injector Driver Modules (Computers) my curiosity led me to reverse engineer the entire circuit board of several different units.
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