About Me
Hi, I’m Rigo (0xcats) Reddig - breaker of warranties, collector of obscure datasheets, and assembler whisperer.
This site is my digital workshop: part lab notebook, part time capsule, and part shrine to the magic smoke. It’s where I document my descent into the rabbit holes of hardware and low-level software. I’m fueled by:
- An unrelenting curiosity for how things work - Or “what happens if I do this?”
- A passion for turning magic smoke into working prototypes
- A commitment to keeping technical magic alive - one BIOS dump at a time
- Doing things just for the fun of it
🔧 What I Do (or what breaks my sleep schedule)
🕵️♂️ Hardware Reverse Engineering
Ever looked at a mystery device and thought, “I bet I can figure this out with a multimeter, a logic analyzer, and sheer spite”?
Same.
Things I may or may not do:
- Collaborate with others on Discord at 3AM
- Disassemble things that were never meant to be opened
- Benchmark Tech that hasn’t been on sale since Men In Black came out
- Play Indiana Jones with lost information
I don’t need therapy, I need annotated schematics. Stat!
📐 Custom PCB Design
When you can’t buy the thing you need, you design it. And then you redesign it. And then you order the wrong footprint. Again.
Some of the more successful creations include:
- SIMMBA – For when you want to use more RAM than should be legal in ancient setups
- Slotcat – Turning legacy CPU slots into other more fashionable CPU slots
- Custom adapters and daughterboards for bridging hardware timelines like it’s the MCU multiverse
💾 Retro Computing & Preservation
The golden rule of retro computing: “If it clicks, whines, or boots from a floppy paper tape, it’s worth saving.”
Things I hoard (digitally, mostly):
- Drivers and Software that only existed on obscure Russian FTP servers (now archived safely)
- BIOS ROMs I pulled off boards with questionable capacitors
- Schematics and datasheets for hardware others thought not to exist
- Firmware projects like coreboot because I like my firmware open
📝 Why This Site Exists
This site is my brain dump for all the cursed knowledge I accumulate along the way.
If I’ve bricked a board or revived an old machine, you’ll probably read about it here.
If even one person avoids my mistakes by reading them here, that’s a win. If not… well, at least I had fun.
So if you’re into solder fumes, broken NDA PDFs, or just want to see what happens when someone asks “can you make this work again?”, you’re in the right place.
Feel free to explore my projects, read through my latest posts, or catch me on GitHub - where half my commits are probably labeled “temporary fix” and the other half are rollbacks of those fixes.