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Reverse-Engineering the LCD Display Interface of the Nest 2nd Gen Thermostat

In which I pried open the glass LCD lens at the front of my Nest 2nd Gen thermostat and found the LCD display module, packaged with a flexible ribbon cable and a round pixel array, and took a months-long journey of reverse engineering, detective work, and problem-solving that taught me more about display interfaces than any tutorial ever could have. Discovery: Finding the Details of the Display It all started with a disassembled Nest thermostat sitting on my workbench. Following the teardown g

Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces

A quick look at how I used WinDbg and NtCreateFile to craft a raw TCP socket via AFD.sys on Windows 11, completely skipping Winsock. Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces Introduction This is the first post in a series about my deep-dive into the AFD.sys driver on Windows 11. The idea is that both this write-up and the library that comes out of it will be a one-stop doc set - and a launchpad - for poking at other drivers that don’t ship with an official spec.

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