Reverse Engineering Toolkit: Platform

When reverse engineering electronic waste in the field, it may be uncertain which particular peripherals a user employs to interface with the RET, be they protocol multi-tools, debuggers or programming interfaces. Their required inclusion tends to increase both set-up costs and practical overhead. To improve the deployability of the RET, this funding round we will produce a development platform which provides essential facilities to the toolkit, conventionally reserved for external peripherals. Aimed at signal processing, the main activities will involve the design and creation of a chassis with three prototyping platforms, one for the DEDBUG Prototyping board, the UNBRK HEX and the TRIDENT, each of which will contain a power supply, a set of common I/O and programming/debugging facilities. Additionally, for users within advanced research facilities, the design of the platform will accommodate the integration of the RET within a range of existing research instruments and workflows, augmenting them with capabilities specifically aimed at reverse engineering.