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Willem's Blog
Personal blog · blog.willemmelching.nl · on HN as pd0wmhardwareprogramming
Willem's Blog is a personal blog at blog.willemmelching.nl about hardware and programming. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on reverse-engineering a VW Golf power steering ECU. The thread discusses the board's hardware, including its bare-die construction and MOSFET H-bridge.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-02
What Hacker News says?
> The electronics seemed to be fabricated using bare dies attached to some substrate, probably to lower cost and improve reliability at higher temperatures. The board is made up of two parts, a low-power part with the CPU and CAN transceivers, and some high-power part with 6 MOSFETs forming a three phase H-Bridge. > https://blog.willemmelching.nl/images/vw/IMG_3181.jpg It doesn't really look cheap to me (large machi…
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on “Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU”Submitted Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU as a story · 383 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU – Part 1 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decoding morse code using Pytorch as a story · 1 points
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