Brian Benchoff

Hardware, embedded systems, and reverse engineering. Built on stolen Ohlone land.

Software

OrthoRouteGPU-accelerated PCB autorouting, as a KiCad plugin

Babelscopea massively parallel emulator that found nothing

Finite Atari30 billion random ROM files, one playable game

MacSSLmbed-TLS, ported to Mac OS 7 / 8 / 9

Embedded SSL & GZIPTLS on a microcontroller, because not everything needs Linux

System 7 in CSSthe classic Macintosh desktop, rebuilt in the browser

8-Track Engineershumans are shockingly good at an NP-hard problem

\$15 Linux Machinea fully functional Linux handheld for under \$15

Isolated Thermocouplea \$20 reader against a \$2,000 industrial module

Nvidia SXM2 Socketreverse-engineering an undocumented GPU socket

Zip Drive Towerfifteen ATAPI Zip drives stacked into one USB array

Portable Dumb Terminala pocket-sized VT100 in a 3D-printed shell

BaudBoxa 256-key ASCII input device for obscure characters

Citicar Restorationbringing a 1980 Citicar EV back to life

CAN Bus Conversionreplacing every relay and analog system with a CAN network

Silicone Keyboardscustom low-cost, high-durability membrane keyboards

Full-Color PCBsmulti-color circuit boards beyond standard manufacturing

Mini-ITX Caseretro-inspired industrial design for a small-form PC

Quarter-Scale BeBoxa miniature tribute to the BeBox

Exaluminalan IoT device to detect a supernova before it reaches Earth

640by480a photo board for old digital cameras

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