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Glenn Grant has blogged recently about going down the USB Reverse Engineering rabbit hole. He does a deep dive into the software and hardware used to reverse engineer, do protocol analysis, do hardware hacking, and do what whatever else would be involved in implementing custom drivers for arbitrary hardware. USB is a ubquitous, industry standard for cables, connectors, and their supporting protocols with a surprising amount of computing power running internally on chips inside the USB devices themselves.
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USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, it is against the law to open a soda bottle without
the supervision of a licensed engineer.
(Score: 3, Informative) by requerdanos on Tuesday May 29 2018, @08:11PM
FTFA:
Actually, other than a brief introduction to USB that says that it has things like device descriptors, endpoints, and the like, "dump a few links" is a perfectly fitting description of TFA. It's a bunch of links to wikipedia, stack exchange questions, blog posts, etc. loosely arranged according to category. For content, you have to follow one of the links, which is the purpose of a set of expert-curated bookmarks, which this is.
Sure I get that someone interested in a subject, and introduced to the world wide web, might go on an oh-wow-look clickfest for hours or days, and that's certainly happened here, but it's a "rabbit hole of clicking shiny things", not a "rabbit hole of actually hacking anything".
To be clear: The author of TFA has likely forgotten more about USB than I have ever known, and to such a person, this collection of links will prove very useful indeed. (But don't click expecting a coherent article.)