[EN] NDH 2011 badge hacking part 1 : Pinout reversing

* UPDATED (6 July 2011) *:
- Fixed links (ATMEL documentation)
- Added section on full pinout

Hello!

Today we are going to do some "hardware" hacking (if we can call it like that ...). Yes, NDH badge hacking :D.
I do not have any real knowledge in electronics but it should be enough to pawn it.

The thing I am the most amazed with is that nobody wrote an article about it but the creator of the badge (tixlegeek) ...

Let's fix that!

The situation

First of all, I could not not find the pinout on Tix's Le Geek blog so I had to "reverse" it.
It is because I have the following programmer (a version of USBasp):

So the cable is a 2x5 pin ICSP AVR.

We want to have something clean so we are going to use a BUS cable:

As well as small clips:

To plug it into a small socket:

To set up the clips, you need to use a flat-nosed plier like this:

For reversing the pinout you could also use wires and a breadboard (I don't have a breadboard ... or any electronic stuffs ^^"):

Don't forget your NDH badge!

In the end you should have all those:

Reversing the pinout

Ok for the pinout you could try to find VCC and GND first with a multimeter and then the other ports. As I do not have any electronic equipment I haven't tried that.

But here what was my idea with the wires :

Yeah, try to craft kind of a hook or something and plug the other part to a breadboard and test it.


 luckily there is another way to find out about the pinout:

Yes just looking at the chip documentation you could find the pinout.
Anyway for the chip, looking close enough you could see its reference:

ATMEL 1114
ATTINY2313V-10SU

Done we have the pinout.
Just have to make the cable ;).

The pinout

Badge NDH

-------------------------------------------------
    |       |       |       |       |       |
   RST    MOSI    MISO     SCK     VCC      GND

Port 2x5 ping AVR ICSP

    1           3         5           7          9
---------------------------------------------------------
|   MOSI    |   NC  |   RESET   |   SCK     |   MISO    |
---------------------------------------------------------
|   VCC     |   GND |   GND     |   GND     |   GND     |
---------------------------------------------------------
    2           4         6           8          10

Do the pinout and then we're in business :).

Full pinout

Just in case people might find this useful:

-------------------------
|          PORTD        |
-------------------------
|   PIND0   |   RX      |
|   PIND1   |   TX      |
|   PIND2   |   D4      |
|   PIND3   |   D3      |
|   PIND4   |   D2      |
|   PIND5   |   D1      |
|   PIND6   |   D5      |
-------------------------
|          PORTB        |
-------------------------
|   PINB0   |   D6      |
|   PINB1   |   D7      |
|   PINB2   |   NC      |
|   PINB3   |   NC      |
|   PINB4   |   NC      |
|   PINB5   |   MOSI    |
|   PINB6   |   MISO    |
|   PINB7   |   SCK     |
-------------------------
|          PORTA        |
-------------------------
|   PINA0   |   NC      |
|   PINA1   |   NC      |
|   PINA2   |   RESET   |
-------------------------

It is evident that you need to read the documentation to understand that table: the chip documentation.

Conclusion

With a bit of curiosity, it was possible to find out about the pinout fairly easily.
As I miscounted  the AVR ICSP pinout ... my cable is not right, so the software part is going to be for another day ;).

Cheers,

m_101

Resources:
- [NDH2K11] Badges hackable!
- NDH2K11's Badge: Spec. & hackz
- NDH2K11's Badge: PROGRAMMATIONNNNNN!!!!
- ATTiny2313 documentation