Developers Summit 2020 - Trammell Hudson

Ikea goes Micropython – how to hack your desk light

In this talk, Trammell Hudson shows how to take ownership of your smart home's Ikea light bulbs by voiding the warranty and replacing the firmware with an open source Zigbee stack written in MicroPython. The best part about open firmware is being able to add features for your specific needs. The second best part is when it breaks you get to keep both pieces.

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Trammell Hudson is a core developer on LinuxBoot and the founder of the Heads project, a slightly more secure open source firmware for laptops. He is known for creating Thunderstrike, the first proof-of-concept MacBook firmware rootkit, and was the original developer of the Magic Lantern project, a free firmware for Canon DSLR cameras.

Trammell has presented his research at conferences like CCC, BlackHat, and DEFCON, and teaches classes on reverse engineering, embedded systems, and electronic art at the NYC Resistor hackerspace.

Over the past thirteen years Trammell Hudson has written low-level operating systems, device drivers and message passing libraries for some of the fastest supercomputers on the Top 500. Trammell Hudson is a frequent hacker who enjoys reverse engineering things, restoring antique computers and making things blink.