OnePlus is reportedly starting to push out Anti-Rollback Protection (ARB) to its devices, restricting firmware downgrades and custom ROMs.

[Jenna] sent in a very cool bootloader she thought people might like. It’s called Micronucleus and it turns the lowly ATtiny 85 into a chip with a USB interface capable of being upgraded via a ‘viral’ ...

There are a few different ways of getting firmware onto one of AVR’s ATtiny85 microcontrollers, including bootloaders that allow for firmware to be updated without the need to plug the chip into a ...

The bootloader for PIC32 devices is used to upgrade firmware on a target device without the need for an external programmer or debugger. The flowchart in Figure 3 illustrates the operation of the ...

Here you can learn many more interesting and useful about USB bootloaders for AVR microcontrollers. In practice, one of the most proper microcontroller programming method is using a bootloader program ...

There's a surprising amount of code running before the OS even loads.

A new firmware update - 7.0.A.3.195 - has been released for locked and unlocked variants of the Sony Xperia T. This is an official firmware released by Sony for European regions. There is no ...

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