Hacking ▍

SquachWatch · Deep Dive · 10 volumes

SquachWatch

10 volumes: the hardware, the parts, building and flashing it, the firmware from the inside, every signature and how far to trust it.

Talking Sasquach's open-source surveillance-device detector for the $15 ESP32 "Cheap Yellow Display" — names Flock cameras, body cams, recording glasses, skimmers, trackers and drones it hears on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Search every volume:

?

How to search

sten gun
pages with both words
"sten gun"
the words together, as a phrase
sten OR sterling
either one (| works too)
sten -replica
leave out pages that mention “replica”

Without quotes, the last word also matches longer words that start with it (sten finds Stenophylla), and close word forms count (rifle finds rifles). Tick Exact words to match whole words only.

Whole deep dives are listed first, then the pages inside them.

    Volumes

    1. Vol 1 SquachWatch Volume 1 — Overview A $15 touchscreen that names the surveillance gear around it: what it is, who made it, what it can and cannot hear, and where it sits in the kit
    2. Vol 2 SquachWatch Volume 2 — Hardware The Cheap Yellow Display taken apart on paper, pin by pin, and every other board SquachWatch runs on, compared
    3. Vol 3 SquachWatch Volume 3 — Parts and Where to Get Them Bills of materials for every way to build one, from a bare $15 board to a GPS wrist unit, with sellers, price ranges and the buying traps
    4. Vol 4 SquachWatch Volume 4 — Building it The bare board is the whole device: the case, the power path, the SD card, the optional GPS and the first power-on
    5. Vol 5 SquachWatch Volume 5 — Flashing it The web flasher end to end, drivers, the white-screen problem, flashing by hand, and signed over-the-air updates with rollback
    6. Vol 6 SquachWatch Volume 6 — Programming it A developer's guide to the SquachWatch-CYD source: the build environments, the architecture, the data types, the signature tables, the PC emulator and the host tests
    7. Vol 7 SquachWatch Volume 7 — What It Detects and How Two radios on one antenna, seventeen detection types, ninety-seven graded prefixes, and an honest list of what a match does and does not prove
    8. Vol 8 SquachWatch Volume 8 — Using It The screens, the alert card, the controls that keep a detector from crying wolf, HUNT mode, the log, desk mode, the lock, and the power knobs
    9. Vol 9 SquachWatch Volume 9 — SquachMesh, Updates and the Watch What two boards say to each other and what it costs, the five-word squad key, pushing an update to a whole squad, and the T-Watch's LoRa ears and GPS log
    10. Vol 10 SquachWatch Volume 10 — Cheatsheet, Legal and Comparison Laminate-ready field cards, the numbers worth remembering, the legal and ethical envelope, and where a $15 detector sits next to the nyanBOX, the CameraDetection build, the tracker detectors, Marauder, the AWOK and the Flipper