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Using

• FPGA Development Board: RZ-EasyFPGA A2.2 from AliExpress, featuring the Altera Cyclone IV.
• OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic)

Quartus Installation

1. Get the Quartus Lite installer, ModelSim installer (optional), and the Cyclone IV development Package from the Altera website.
   • Get it here: https://www.altera.com/products/design-software/fpga-design/quartus-prime/download.html
   • You gotta click on Lite Edition > (Select version and OS) > Individual files and download: Quartus Prime (includes Nios II EDS) and Cyclone IV device support. Files are about 500MB - 2000MB.
2. Install Quartus. Root not required
   • Command:

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Controlling the Brother P-Touch Cube label maker from a computer

The Brother PTP300BT label maker is intended to be controlled using the official Brother P-Touch Design & Print iOS/Android app. The app has arbitrary limits on what you can print (1 text object and up to 3 preset icons), so I thought it would be a fun challenge to reverse engineer the protocol to print whatever I wanted.

Python code at the bottom if you want to skip the fine details.

Process

Intitially I had a quick peek at the Android APK to see if there was any useful information inside. The code that handles the communication with the printer in Print&Design turned out to be a native library, but the app clearly prepares a bitmap image and passes it to this native library for printing. Bitmaps are definitely something we can work with.

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Instructions to obtain WireGuard details of your NordVPN account. These can be used to setup a WireGuard tunnel on your router to NordVPN.

Source: https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/configure-wireguard-client-to-connect-to-nordvpn-servers/10422/27

Prerequisites

If you have any linux machine, use that or install a vm if you don't have one.

Get their official linux app installed. Make sure you have wireguard installed too. And set the used technology to Nordlynx by running nordvpn set technology nordlynx