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About DEDBUG (from [DEDBUG & Unbinare wiki](https://unbinare.be/index.php?title=DEDBUG_Protoboard)
DEDBUG is a protoboard aimed at deadbug prototyping and free-form circuit construction with components salvaged from electronic waste. Unlike traditional perfboards and stripboards, the main objective of this protoboard is to provide a means to work with SMD components. Since the founding of Unbinare in 2020 we have observed a gradual decline among hardware hackers in manual experimentation and prototyping with SMD components in favour of establishing small-scale production pipelines with desktop CNC routers, pick-and-place machines, reflow ovens and other costly production-oriented equipment. We suspect the cause of this change is due to the influence of the manufacturing industry on the hardware hacking community. As this trend loosely mirrors production processes in larger production pipelines, it implicitly directs hackers away from experimentation, towards commercially producing and selling devices. At Unbinare, we would like to preserve the noncommercial, unpremeditated, spur-of-the-moment nature of hardware hacking and openly share the skills required to manually hack free-form circuits with SMD components. The DEDBUG protoboard is designed to allow anyone to experiment and build free-form circuits with relative ease and demonstrates that with few resources one is able to modify and repurpose discarded electronic devices instead of creating new products. The project has been supported by Constant VZW as part of their TechnoDisobedience Project. They generously provided the resources for the design, production and the organization of the first DEDBUG workshop. Further development of the project is supported by NLnet and the NGI Zero Fund as part of our Reverse Engineering Toolkit project.
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Some impressions and quotes from the first DEDBUG workshop, that took place from 27-28/05/2023 @ Constant
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Some notes while we try to reverse engineer some small component boards..
Not functional circuits, but reversing them?
- Glueing the chips upside down (they look like dead bugs then hehe)
- Some protocols: Open device -> it's a zombie -> find its brain
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"It's all about increasing manual dexterity.. As soon as you can handle a component you can deal with it conceptually"
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"It's about working around standards.. The limit is set by manufacturing companies and this is a tool to work with that. To get back the dexterity to work.."
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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